Paul Lynde

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-06-13 (56 years old)

Deathday

1982-01-10

Place of Birth

Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA

Paul Lynde

Biography

Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys). His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). After graduating from Northwestern University, Lynde relocated to New York City where his first break came from being a stand-up comedian at the Number One Fifth Avenue nightclub. Then came an appearance on a Broadway show, "New Faces of 1952".

Acting

1964

Send Me No Flowers

as Mr. Akins

1963

Bye Bye Birdie

as Harry McAfee

1965

1966

The Glass Bottom Boat

as Homer Cripps

1973

Charlotte's Web

as Templeton (voice)

1968

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

as Self (uncredited)

1978

Rabbit Test

as Dr. Roger Vidal

1979

The Villain

as Nervous Elk

1969

Gidget Grows Up

as Louis B. Latimer

1972

Gidget Gets Married

as Louis B. Latimer

1968

How Sweet It Is!

as The Purser

1963

Son of Flubber

as Sportscaster

1975

Hugo the Hippo

as Aban-Khan (voice)

1954

New Faces

as Paul Lynde

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as Mr. MacAfee (segment "Bye Bye Birdie")

1972

Journey Back to Oz

as Pumpkinhead (voice)

2023

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

as Self/Uncle Arthur (archive footage)

Production

1954

New Faces

as Writer

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