BUTCH PATRICK - My Munsters Memories

THE ACTOR WHO PLAYED EDDIE SHARES UNTOLD STORIES FROM THE SET OF THE FRIGHTENINGLY FUN SITCOM

- Lindsay Hoffman

Playing Eddie the boy werewolf on The Munsters was truly a wild ride for Butch Patrick. “I remember doing an exterior shot in the Munster Koach,” the former child actor tells Closer of a practical joke played by Fred Gw y nne, a ka Herman Munster. “We get in, Fred takes off, and instead of turning around, he continues out the front gate of Universal Studios and leaves the property, driving up to the Hollywood Bowl. The funniest thing about it was the people on the street watching us drive by in full makeup, freaking out!”

Thrills like that made working on the TV classic extra fun, notes Butch, 71, who was just a preteen when his misfit family of monsters charmed audiences from 1964 to 1966. “It was funny. It was well written. It didn’t really have a weak factor in it,” Butch, who runs the fansite munsters.​com, notes, adding he loved how Universal shot it with the same lighting techniques and shadowing as their iconic horror films, giving it “the look of a monster movie instead of a sitcom.”