Biography
An American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later roles in The Cotton Club, Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Auto-Tune the Munsters: A Rock Opera
2015
as Herman Munster (archive footage)
A television special made up of footage of the Munsters episode "A Man for Marilyn", which has been extensively re-edited into an Auto-Tune musical.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring ...

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Herman Munster (archive footage)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...

The Munsters - Family Portrait
2008
as Herman Munster
It’s the frighteningly funny Munsters like you’ve never seen them before! For the firs time ever, the unforgettable “Family Portrait” comes to DVD in ...

Al Lewis: Forever Grandpa
2000
as Herman Munster (archive footage)
Al Lewis becomes well-known for his iconic role as Grandpa on "The Munsters".
Lincoln
1992
as Edwin Stanton (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

My Cousin Vinny
1992
as Judge Chamberlain Haller
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Hacker's Follower
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Earthday Birthday
1990
as Fred the Moose (voice)
After learning about pollution a group of creatures called Zwibble Dibbles, decide to throw a party for the Earth to raise awareness.

Murder in Black and White
1990
as Brannigan
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Pet Sematary
1989
as Jud Crandall
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

Disorganized Crime
1989
as Max Green
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do...

Ironweed
1987
as Oscar Reo
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
as George S. Kaufman (voice)
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table grou...

Fatal Attraction
1987
as Arthur
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

The Secret of My Success
1987
as Donald Davenport
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and gir...

Murder by the Book
1987
as Victor Greville
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly ap...

The Christmas Star
1986
as Waters
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dresse...

The Boy Who Could Fly
1986
as Uncle Hugo
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, ...

Vanishing Act
1986
as Father Macklin
A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports her disappearance to the police. A few days later, a woman escorted by the local priest cl...

Off Beat
1986
as The Commissioner
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...

Water
1985
as Spender
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling com...

The Cotton Club
1984
as Frenchy Demange
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

The Mysterious Stranger
1982
as Balthasar Hoffman
The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to p...

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
1982
as Charles Dickens
The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-yea...

So Fine
1981
as Chairman Lincoln
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success -...

The Munsters' Revenge
1981
as Herman Munster
The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster rob...

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
as Rev. Burgess
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.

Simon
1980
as Maj. Gen. Korey
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living b...

Luna
1979
as Douglas Winter
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his hero...

Sanctuary of Fear
1979
as Judge Potter
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents sh...

Captains Courageous
1977
as Long Jack
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea cap...
Bound for Freedom
1976
In Colonial New England two indentured servants fare differently. Twelve-year-old James is contracted to a family that treats him like a son and his f...

Harvey
1972
as Cab Driver
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plan...

Dames at Sea
1971
as Hennesy
Dames at Sea is a musical with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise. The musical is a parody of large, flashy 19...

Paradise Lost
1971
as Mr. Pike
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them a...

The Littlest Angel
1969
as Patience, the Guardian Angel
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthda...

Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
as Jonathan Brewster
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Antkeeper
1966
as Narrator
This classic from Rolf Forsberg, in the style of Fellini and Bergman, tells the story of a gardener who decides to introduce ants to his garden, becau...

Munster, Go Home!
1966
as Herman Munster
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Fr...
Salute to Stan Laurel
1965
as Herman Munster
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.

Marineland Carnival: The Munsters Visit Marineland
1965
as Herman Munster
The Munsters take in the sights at Marineland.

On the Waterfront
1954
as Slim (uncredited)
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...
Escape From Limbo
1953
as Tallow Pot Thompson
The bizarre tale of Pennsylvania Railroad fireman Henry who is involved in a hunting accident. He ends up in Limbo where a supernatural figure explai...