I was actually very old for my age as a kid. But, not only was I 11 and 12, I was mentally about 18 years old. In Hollywood, they love when you’re older and you can play younger. They used to call me a 39-year-old midget because they thought I was wise beyond my years. Scoop: Did any of your adult costars give you acting advice?īutch Patrick: No, actually they didn’t. It was a very interesting mix that worked briefly for two years really, really well and it’s got a lot of staying power because of it. Once you heard Herman Munster talk, he wasn’t Frankenstein, he was lovable Herman Munster. But, we had Leave It to Beaver producers and writers, so what they did was merge a family-friendly sitcom with lovable monsters. So, what we were doing was making a sitcom, but we were featuring monster movie credentials in the set design and the special effects. The whole idea of a TV show that was featuring sets with cobwebs and all the good stuff that the Universal monster movies had and they utilized them on the set. Scoop: What did you like most about playing Eddie Munster?īutch Patrick: Number one, the sets were very, very cool. I was a huge fan, I built all the models of everything that they had to do, so working at Universal at the monster studio was a really big thrill. In a longwinded way of answering the question, I loved the monster movies at Universal. Then, they decided he wasn’t believable enough to be the offspring of Herman and Lily, so they upped the ante a little bit and made me a little more peculiar looking with the hairpiece and stuff. He was really sort of a regular kid who wore a funny suit and had pointy ears like Spock. I don’t know if you ever saw early pictures of Eddie Munster, but he didn’t have a widow’s peak and he didn’t have really bushy eyebrows. Image courtesy of Eva Ink Artist Group/Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking. So, I had this sort of strange dynamic.īutch Patrick today. Number one, I had to stay in California, I lived with my uncle, my mom was married to a baseball player, or was attempting to marry a baseball player on the East Coast. So, I wound up in parochial school, which was fine.ĭuring that period, the interview came for The Munsters and I flew out to California for it and when I wound up getting it, everything changed. At that particular time, I had just finished doing General Hospital and The Real McCoys and I rode with her to go to a school, a parochial school back in the fifth grade because my mom was trying to marry a Roman Catholic and she had been divorced, so we were trying to appease the Catholic church. But I spent a lot of time with my grandmother in the Midwest and she was a big antiquer, so I had a nice balance. Scoop: What was your initial reaction to learning that you would play a boy werewolf on The Munsters?Īctor Butch Patrick: I grew up in Southern California, obviously Hollywood was where you had to live back in the day to work. Patrick recently chatted with Amanda Sheriff, editor of Scoop, about his experiences on The Munsters, his appearance on many popular TV shows, and his plans for the future – including Munster-themed escape rooms. Since then, Patrick has entertained generations of fans on TV, film, and at special appearances. Butch Patrick portrayed the youngest Munster, a precocious boy who happened to be a werewolf. In the mid-1960s The Munsters became a cultural phenomenon by mixing the popular family sitcom with a Universal monster twist. Child actor Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster in a publicity photo.
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