Spoiler : Born 10/25/1912; died 2/3/2002 of congestive heart failure in Huntington Beach, California. Writer of comedy material for Walter O'Keefe, Fred Allen & Milton Berle. Director/writer for Our Miss Brooks on CBS-Radio (1948-1957); CBS-TV (1952-1956). Writer for movies including Ma & Paul Kettle (1949). Writer and Director for movies including Our Miss Brooks (1956).

Spoiler : Lewis, Al (birth name was Albert Meister) Born in Wolcott, New York 4/30/1923 (most sources claim 1910, but at time of death his son confirmed his birth as 1923); died 2/3/2006 following years of failing health in New York City. He had heart bypass surgery in 2003, then later complications from surgery led to his right leg being amputated, leaving him in a coma for over a month. Married and divorced to Marge Domowitz (1956-1977); Karen Ingenthron (1984-2006 his death). Lewis' family moved to Brooklyn, New York where he was a high school ballplayer, then a noted basketball talent scout. Later he was a vaudeville and circus performer. Screen debut playing Machine Gun Manny in Pretty Boy Floyd. Last movie was playing Father Hanlon in Night Terror (2001).

Spoiler : Television actor from the late 1950s to the middle 1980s. Host of The Uncle Al Show on ABC-TV (1958-1959). Officer Leo Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You? for NBC-TV (1961-1963). Grandpa Munster on The Munsters for CBS-TV (1964-1965).

Spoiler : In 1998, he ran as the Green Party candidate against incumbent New York Governor George Pataki, and campaigned against Draconian drug laws and the death penalty. Defeated, but received some 52,000 votes. In 2003 he was hospitalized for an angioplasty. Complications during surgery led to an emergency bypass and the amputation of his right leg below the knee and all toes on his left foot. For many years before his death he was owner of the New York Greenwich Village restaurant called Grandpa's Pasta & Pizza, and was host of a weekly Saturday radio show on WBAI-FM New York.