December 16th 2024.
Actor Carel Struycken, best known for his role as Lurch in the beloved childhood movie, The Addams Family, was recently spotted running errands in Los Angeles. It was a rare outing for the 76-year-old, who has been on our screens for decades, and has become an icon in the film industry.
Sporting a grey hoodie over a t-shirt and black tracksuit bottoms, Carel made his way into the supermarket, armed with a cane and shopping bags. It was a lowkey outing, ahead of the busy Christmas season. He has been a familiar face in Hollywood since his movie debut in 1978, in Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Aside from The Addams Family, Carel has also appeared in popular films such as The Witches of Eastwick, Framed, Men in Black, Oblivion, and Doctor Sleep over the years. However, his biggest role came in 1991 as the gloomy butler Lurch, alongside a star-studded cast including Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, and Christopher Lloyd.
In 1993, he reprised his role in the sequel, Addams Family Values, and later appeared in Addams Family Reunion in 1998 with a mostly different cast. The success of the films even led to a spin-off series, Wednesday, which premiered on Netflix in 2022.
Fans were delighted when Carel reunited with his on-screen family at the Los Angeles Comic-Con in October. He joined Anjelica, Christina, Jimmy Workman, and Christopher for a panel, and later posted a photo of the group on social media, with the caption: ‘The family that haunts together, stays together…
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