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{{Infobox person
| name                   = Al Lewis
| image                  = Al Lewis The Munsters 1964 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize              = 
| caption                = Lewis in ''[[The Munsters]]'' in 1964
| birth_name             = Abraham Meister 
| birth_date             = {{Birth date|1923|04|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place            = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date             = {{Death date and age|2006|02|03|1923|04|30}}
| death_place            = [[Roosevelt Island]], New York City, U.S.
| alma_mater             = [[Columbia University]]
| other_names            = Grandpa Al Lewis
| occupation             = {{hlist|Actor|activist}}
| years_active           = 1949&ndash;2002
| party                  = [[Green Party of the United States|Green]]
| spouse                 = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Marge Domowitz|1956|1977|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Karen Ingenthron]]|1984}}
}}
| children               = 3
}}
'''Al Lewis''' (born '''Abraham Meister'''; April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006) was an American actor and activist, best known for his role as [[Grandpa (The Munsters)|Grandpa]] on the television series ''[[The Munsters]]'' from 1964 to 1966 and its film versions. He previously also co-starred with ''The Munsters''{{'}} [[Fred Gwynne]] in the television show ''[[Car 54, Where Are You? ]]'' from 1961–1963. Later in life, he was a restaurant owner, political candidate, and [[radio broadcaster]].<ref name=obit/>

==Early life==
Lewis was born Abraham Meister on April 30, 1923 in [[Manhattan]], New York City. His parents Alexander ({{langx|yi|אלכסנדר מייסטער}}; {{langx|ru|Александр Мейстер}}) and Ida (''née'' Neidel; {{langx|yi|ידאַ נעידעל מעיסטער}}; {{langx|ru|ида неидел меистер}}) , a house painter from [[Minsk]] and a garment worker respectively, were [[Jews|Jewish]]
immigrants from the [[Russian Empire]]; His two brothers were Phillip and Henry.<ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQTS-W3L 1940 United States census extract which supports the 1923 year of birth]</ref><ref name=SS>Record of "Al Lewis"; April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006; SSN: 050-18-4924. Social Security Administration. [[Social Security Death Index]]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006.</ref><ref name=timesonline/><ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Meister (1930–2017) |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=henry-meister&pid=186049570&fhid=27162 |website=legacy.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=March 15, 2020}}</ref> He had originally given his birth year as 1910. His reputed early radio work in the mid-1930s would indicate the earlier birth date, as did an off-the-cuff remark on the TVLegends interview, 2002, where he says "not a bad memory for 92". Ted Lewis, his son, firmly said his father was born in 1923<ref>{{cite news|first=Dan|last=Barry|author-link=Dan Barry (reporter)|title=Hey, Whose Grandpa Didn't Tell Some Tales?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/11/nyregion/hey-whose-grandpa-didnt-tell-some-tales.html|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 11, 2006|access-date=2007-07-21}}</ref><ref name=birthplace>{{cite news|title=Al Lewis, 95, Dies; Portrayed Grandpa on 'The Munsters'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/nyregion/05lewis.html|agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 5, 2006|access-date=2007-07-21}}</ref> in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="Says Goodbye">{{cite news |last1=Alpert |first1=Lukas I. |title='Grandpa' Al Says Goodbye – 'Munsters' Star Lewis Dead at 82 |url=https://nypost.com/2006/02/05/grandpa-al-says-goodbye-munsters-star-lewis-dead-at-82/ |access-date=3 March 2019 |publisher=New York Post |date=February 5, 2006}}</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/arts/news/artsnews_1562560.htm "'Grandpa Munster' Al Lewis dies"], abc.net.au, May 2, 2006.</ref> Other sources placed his birth in [[Wolcott, New York]],<ref name=birthplace/> but no official record of his birth has been published to date (2006), and officials in Wolcott say they have no record of any Meister. ''The Times'' wrote: "Lewis was born Albert Meister, probably in 1923, but he insisted that he was born in 1910. This, and Lewis's many other questionable stories, means that much of the actor's life is a broth of conjecture that his fans will no doubt squabble over for years to come."<ref name=birthplace/> On his application for a [[Social Security number (United States)|Social Security number]], completed sometime between 1936 and 1950, Lewis gave his date of birth as April 30, 1923.<ref name="SS"/> The 1925 New York State census lists Abe Meister, age 2, living with his parents Alexander and Ida Meister on 99th Street. The 1940 census lists an Albert Meister "age 16" living on Douglass (today's Strauss) Street in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>Ancestry.com</ref>

In a 1998 interview with Walt Shepperd, Lewis said:{{blockquote|My mother was a worker, worked in the garment trades. My mother was an indomitable spirit. My grandfather had no sons. He had six daughters. They lived in Poland or Russia, every five years it would change. My mother being the oldest daughter, they saved their money, and when she was about sixteen they sent her to the United States, not knowing a word of English. She went to work in the garment center, worked her back and rear-end off and brought over to the United States her five sisters and two parents. I remember going on picket lines with my mother. My mother wouldn't back down to anyone.<ref name="shepperd">{{cite news|url=http://newtimes.rway.com/1998/102898/cover.shtml|title=Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis runs for governor|access-date=2007-02-14|work=[[New Times Media|New Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218095845/http://newtimes.rway.com/1998/102898/cover.shtml|archive-date=2006-02-18}}</ref><ref>*{{cite web|url=http://newtimes.rway.com/1998/102898/cover.shtml |title=No Joke: Al 'Grandpa Munster' Lewis runs for governor |access-date=2007-02-14 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218095845/http://newtimes.rway.com/1998/102898/cover.shtml |archive-date=2006-02-18 }} ''The New Times''</ref>}}

===Education===
{{more citations needed section|date=September 2025}}
According to a report in ''[[The Jewish Week]]'', Al Lewis attended [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin|Yeshiva Chaim Berlin]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York, in his youth and "asked annoying questions to the teachers." Lewis then attended [[Thomas Jefferson High School (Brooklyn)|Thomas Jefferson High School]], which he left in his junior year. He claimed to have attended Oswego State Teachers College (now [[State University of New York at Oswego|SUNY Oswego]]), notwithstanding his lack of a high school diploma, and to have earned a Ph.D. in child psychology from [[Columbia University]] in 1941, of which Columbia has no record.<ref name="shepperd"/> Lewis did send at least one of his children to [[Yeshiva]] in the [[San Fernando Valley]].

==Career==
===Acting===
[[File:Munsters cast 1964.JPG|thumb|right|Al Lewis as Grandpa (back) with the cast of ''[[The Munsters]]'', 1964]]
In 1949, after a suggestion from a friend, he decided to pursue a career as an actor after joining the Paul Mann Actors' Workshop in [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Al gets fangs into Big Apple|work=BBC News|date=August 11, 1999|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/417321.stm|access-date=August 16, 2024}}</ref> He worked in [[American burlesque|burlesque]] and [[vaudeville]] theaters, then on Broadway in the dramas ''The Night Circus'' (1958) and ''[[One More River]]'' (1960) and as the character Moe Shtarker in the musical comedy ''[[Do Re Mi (musical)|Do Re Mi]]'' (1962).<ref name="ibdb">{{IBDB name|79446|name=Al Lewis}}</ref>

His earliest television work includes appearances on the crime drama ''[[Decoy (TV series)|Decoy]]'' and ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]''. From 1959 to 1963, he appeared in four episodes of ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]''. Lewis's first well-known television role was as Officer Leo Schnauser on the sitcom ''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]'' from 1961 to 1963, also starring Fred Gwynne (Lewis reprised the role in the 1994 movie of the same name).<ref name=obit/> In the series, Lewis first played Al Spencer the Auto Body Man and a property developer in two early first-season episodes, then landed the more familiar role of Officer Schnauser. He is best remembered as Grandpa on ''The Munsters'', which ran on CBS from 1964 to 1966.<ref name=obit/>

In 1967, Lewis played the part of Zalto the magician in the ''[[Lost in Space]]'' episode "Rocket to Earth". His first role in a movie was as Machine Gun Manny in ''[[Pretty Boy Floyd (film)|Pretty Boy Floyd]]'' (1960). He had small roles in ''[[The World of Henry Orient]]'' (1964), ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]'' (1969), and ''[[They Might Be Giants (film)|They Might Be Giants]]'' (1971). He appeared as Hanging Judge Harrison in ''[[Used Cars]]'' (1980), played a security guard on an episode of ''[[Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]]'', and had a minor role in ''[[Married to the Mob]]'' (1988). His last film role was in ''Night Terror'' (2002).<ref name=obit/>
[[File:Grndpa munster.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Al Lewis caricature by [[Jim McDermott (illustrator)|Jim McDermott]]]]

In 1991, he appeared as Grandpa in an episode of ''[[Hi Honey, I'm Home]]'' on ABC. In 1991, he appeared in a low-budget movie titled ''Grampire'' (''My Grandpa Is a Vampire'' in the U.S. version), wearing much the same costume as he did in ''The Munsters''. From 1987 to 1989, Lewis hosted ''Super Scary Saturday'' on [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] in his Grandpa outfit. This was parodied in ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]'' with the character of Grandpa Fred ([[Robert Prosky]]).{{Citation needed |date=May 2021}} Lewis also used the role to promote a 1-900 number known as "the Junior Vampire Club" and in a series of public domain VHS compilations for Amvest Video.

===Other pursuits===
Lewis was a proponent of free speech and frequently spoke out in the late 1980s and early 1990s against government entities such as the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and non-government entities such as the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center). A recurring guest on the Howard Stern Show, Lewis famously uttered the phrase "fuck the FCC", during a 1987 speech at a "Howard Stern Freedom Rally" held in Manhattan and organized by the radio personality. Lewis shouted the phrase repeatedly until Stern was able to take the microphone away from him. The FCC did not punish Stern or the station for Lewis's comments and Stern later used the speech as the opening track of Stern's Crucified by the FCC comedy album in early 1999.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Lewis appeared in an episode of ''[[The American Experience]]'' where he recalled his experiences at [[Coney Island]], which he frequently visited and worked at as a game barker. He was featured in the [[Atari 7800]] videogame ''[[Midnight Mutants]]'',<ref>[http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareID=2141 AtariAge{{spaced ndash}}Atari 7800{{spaced ndash}}Midnight Mutants (Atari)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091907/http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareID=2141 |date=2007-09-29 }}, atariage.com; accessed June 9, 2015.</ref> an action-adventure title with a Halloween theme. His appearance in the game mirrored his Grandpa persona in ''The Munsters''.{{Citation needed |date=May 2021}}

In 1987, he opened an Italian restaurant named Grampa's Bella Gente at 252 Bleecker Street in Manhattan. In September 1989, he licensed a comedy club named Grampa's to an entrepreneurial mafia family named Cataldo in New Dorp Plaza in Staten Island.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

==Politics==
As a [[left-wing]] activist, he hosted a politically oriented radio program on [[WBAI]] (whose theme song was [[King Curtis]]' "Foot Pattin'") and ran as [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] candidate for [[governor of New York]] in 1998. In [[1998 New York gubernatorial election|that race]], he sought to be listed on the ballot as Grandpa Al Lewis, arguing that he was most widely known by that name. His request was rejected by the [[New York State Board of Elections|Board of Elections]], a decision upheld in court against his challenge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.640372|title=This Day in Jewish History The Actor Who Played Grandpa Munster Dies|last=Green|first=David B.|date=February 3, 2015|work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref>

Despite this setback, he achieved one of his campaign objectives. His total of 52,533 votes exceeded the threshold of votes set by New York law (50,000) and hence guaranteed the [[Green Party of New York]] an automatic ballot line for the next four years (see [[New York gubernatorial elections#1966-1998|New York gubernatorial elections]]).<ref name="1998election" /> He said that, with no [[political machine]] and no money backing him, the likelihood of winning the governorship would be "like climbing [[Mount Everest]] barefooted".<ref>{{cite news|title=Al gets fangs into Big Apple.|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/417321.stm|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=2008-03-20|date=August 11, 1999}}</ref> In 2000, he sought the Green Party nomination for US Senate; he ultimately placed second in the primary, with about 32 percent of the vote, losing to Mark Dunau.<ref name="Green primary" />

==Personal life and final years==
Lewis married Marge Domowitz in 1956, with whom he had three sons, Dave, Ted, and Paul. The marriage ended in divorce in 1977.<ref name=obit/> In 1984, he married actress [[Karen Ingenthron]], to whom he remained married for the rest of his life.<ref name=timesonline>{{cite news|first=Laura|last=Pitel|title=Actor and storyteller famous for his role as Grandpa Munster.|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2027770,00.htm|work=[[Times Online]]|year=2006|access-date=2008-03-20|location=London, UK}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name=obit/>

In his final years, he resided on [[Roosevelt Island]] in [[New York City]]. In 2003, he was hospitalized for an angioplasty, and complications from the surgery led to an emergency bypass and the amputation of his right leg below the knee as well as all of the toes on his left foot. He died on February 3, 2006, aged 82, of [[natural causes]] in Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title= Al Lewis, 95, Is Dead. Played Grandpa on 'The Munsters'|work= The New York Times|date=February 5, 2006| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05lewis.html|access-date=2010-10-10}}</ref> His memorial service was held at [[Riverside Memorial Chapel]] in Manhattan on February 18, 2006.<ref>https://www.gpny.org/home_going_celebration_for_grandpa_al_lewis</ref>

==Filmography==
=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1951
| ''London Entertains''
| Himself
|Documentary
|-
| 1957
| ''[[I Vampiri]]''
| Assistant
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Pretty Boy Floyd (film)|Pretty Boy Floyd]]''
| Manny 'Machine Gun Manny'
|
|-
| 1964
| ''[[The World of Henry Orient]]''
| Store Owner
|
|-
| 1966
| ''[[Munster, Go Home!]]''
| [[Grandpa (The Munsters)|Grandpa Munster]]
|
|-
| 1969
| ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]''
| Turkey
|
|-
| 1970
| ''[[The Boatniks]]''
| Bert
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[They Might Be Giants (film)|They Might Be Giants]]''
| Messenger
|
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Night Strangler (film)|The Night Strangler]]''
| Hobo
|
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Death Wish (1974 film)|Death Wish]]''
| Guard At Hotel Lobby
| Uncredited
|-
| 1974
| ''Black Starlet''
| Sam
|
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Coonskin (film)|Coonskin]]''
| The Godfather
| Voice, uncredited
|-
| 1975
| ''[[White House Madness]]''
| Judge Cirrhosis
|
|-
| 1979
| ''That's Life''
|
| unfinished film
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Used Cars]]''
| Judge Harrison
|
|-
| 1987
| ''Comic Cabby''
| Al the Cabsmith
|
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Married to the Mob]]''
| Uncle Joe Russo
|
|-
| 1988
| ''Bum Rap''
| Mr. Wolfstadt
|
|-
| 1992
| ''My Grandpa is a Vampire''
| Vernon Cooger
|
|-
| 1993
| ''The Garden''
| Holocaust survivor Abel
| short film
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Car 54, Where Are You? (film)|Car 54, Where Are You?]]''
| Leo Schnauzer
|
|-
| 1994
| '' Piedras rodantes''
|
| short film
|-
| 1996
| ''Fast Money''
| Poon
|
|-
| 1996
| ''South Beach Academy''
| Uncle Gene
|
|-
| 1998
| ''Sidoglio Smithee''
| Himself
|
|-
| 2002
| ''Night Terror''
| Father Hanlon
|
|-
| 2006
| ''Goodbye, America''
| Himself
|Documentary
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1953–1957
| ''[[The Big Story (radio and TV series)|The Big Story]]''
| Willie
| 2 episodes
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Decoy]]''
| Chi Chi
| Episode: "Queen of Diamonds"
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Brenner (TV series)|Brenner]]''
| Logan
| Episode: "Thin Ice"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]''
| Bruno the Mobster, Mobster Bengal, Mike
| 3 episodes
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Deadline (1959 TV series)|Deadline]]''
| Fletcher
| Episode: "Jail Break"
|-
| 1959–1960
| ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
| Bartender, Paul Gordon
| 2 episodes
|-
| 1959–1963
| ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]''
| Mr. Carrari, Mr. Tanner, Harry McGoglan, Bookie, Gus, Mr. Pike
| 6 episodes
|-
| 1961–1963
|''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]''
| Officer Leo Schnauser
| 44 episodes
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]''
| Sergeant Cross
| Episode: "The Search"
|-
| 1964–1966
| ''[[The Munsters]]''
| Grandpa Munster
| 70 episodes
|-
| 1967
|''[[Lost in Space]]''
| Zalto
| Episode: "Rocket to Earth"
|-
|1968
|Gomer Pyle, USMC
|Harry Whipple
|Season 5, 
1 episode 
|-1968 gomer pyle:usmc  episode: 'hit and write'...harry whipple
| 1971
| ''[[Green Acres]]''
| Charlie
| Episode: "Star Witness"
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Night Gallery]]''
| Mishkin
| 1 episode
|-
| 1972
| ''[[Love, American Style]]'' 
| Bernie
| 1 episode
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Night Strangler (film)|The Night Strangler]]''
| Tramp
| Television film
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie]]''
| Grandpa Munster
| Episode: "The Mini-Munsters"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Here's Lucy]]''
| Lionel Barker
| Episode: "Lucy Plays Cops and Robbers"
|-
| 1978
| ''Ring of Passion''
| Mike Jacobs
| Television film
|-
| 1980
| ''[[CBS Children's Mystery Theatre]]'' 
|
| Episode: "The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn"
|-
| 1981
| ''[[The Munsters' Revenge]]''
| Grandpa Munster
| Television film
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]]''
| Security Guard
| Episode: "On the Job: Part 2"
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Best of the West]]''
| Judge
| Episode: "The Hanging of Parker Tillman"
|-
| 1988
| ''Super Scary Saturday''
| Albert Einstein Grampa
| Episode: "War of the Gargantuas"
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Mathnet]]''
| Ring Announcer
| Episode: "The Case of the Masked Avenger"
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Hi Honey, I'm Home]]''
| Grandpa Munster
| Episode: "Grey Skies"
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Here Come the Munsters]]''
| Restaurant Guest
| Television film
|}

==Theater ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Night Circus]]''
| Owner/Bartender
|<ref name=IBDB>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/al-lewis-79446|title=Al Lewis}}</ref>
|-
| 1960
| ''[[One More River]]''
| Performer
|<ref name=IBDB/>
|-
| 1960–1962
| ''[[Do Re Mi (musical)|Do Re Mi]]''
| Moe Shtarker, Fatso O'Rear
|<ref name=IBDB/>
|}

==Electoral history==
{{Election box begin | title=[[1998 New York gubernatorial election]]<ref name="1998election">{{cite web |title=1998 Election Results Certified by State Board of Canvassers |url=https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/news/gvot98.pdf |website=New York State Board of Elections |access-date=April 30, 2021 |date=December 16, 1998}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = ''George Pataki''
  |votes      = 2,223,264
  |percentage = 44.59%
  |change     = 
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party = Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative
  |candidate = ''George Pataki''
  |votes = 348,727
  |percentage = 6.99%
  |change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
  |party = Total
  |candidate = '''[[George Pataki]]''' (incumbent)
  |votes = '''2,571,991'''
  |percentage = '''54.32%'''
  |change = '''+5.53%'''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = ''Peter Vallone, Sr.''
  |votes      = 1,518,992
  |percentage = 30.47%
  |change     = 
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party = Working Families Party
  |candidate = ''Peter Vallone, Sr.''
  |votes = 51,325
  |percentage = 1.03%
  |change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
  |party = Total
  |candidate = [[Peter Vallone, Sr.]]
  |votes = 1,570,317
  |percentage = 33.16%
  |change = -12.29%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Independence Party of New York
  |candidate  = [[Tom Golisano]]
  |votes      = 364,056
  |percentage = 7.69%
  |change     = +3.51%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Liberal Party of New York
  |candidate  = [[Betsy McCaughey]]
  |votes      = 77,915
  |percentage = 1.65%
  |change     = -0.12%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = New York State Right to Life Party
  |candidate  = Michael Reynolds
  |votes      = 56,683
  |percentage = 1.20%
  |change     = -0.10%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Green Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Al Lewis
  |votes      = 52,533
  |percentage = 1.11%
  |change     = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Marijuana Reform Party
  |candidate  = Thomas K. Leighton
  |votes      = 24,788
  |percentage = 0.52%
  |change     = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate|
  |party      = Unity
  |candidate  = Mary Alice France
  |votes      = 9,692
  |percentage = 0.21%
  |change     = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Libertarian Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Chris Garvey
  |votes      = 4,722
  |percentage = 0.11%
  |change     = -0.07%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Socialist Workers Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Al Duncan
  |votes      = 2,539
  |percentage = 0.05%
  |change     = +0.01%
}}
{{Election box candidate|
  |party      = 
  |candidate  = ''Blank – Void – Scattering''
  |votes      = 250,696
  |percentage = 5.02%
  |change     = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 1,001,674
  |percentage = 21.15%
  |change     = +17.81%
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 4,985,932
  |percentage = 
  |change     = 
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
  |winner     = Republican Party (United States)
  |swing      = 
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin no change|title=2000 [[United States Senate]] Green primary in New York<ref name="Green primary">{{cite news |title=On Politics: New York — US Senate |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections/2000/states/ny/senate/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=April 30, 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
  |party      = Green Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Mark Dunau
  |votes      = 454
  |percentage = 38.35%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
  |party      = Green Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Al Lewis
  |votes      = 377
  |percentage = 31.84%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
  |party      = Green Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Ronnie Dugger
  |votes      = 353
  |percentage = 29.81%
}}
{{Election box total no change
  |votes      = 1,184
  |percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box end}}

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0506891}}
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4683026.stm "Television's Grandpa Munster dies"], bbc.co.uk, February 5, 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060207020907/http://mediafilter.org/shadow/S43/S43grand.html Shadow Interview], mediafilter.org, October 21, 1997
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219044815/http://www.munstermansion.com/almemoriam.html Munster Mansion Memorial for Al Lewis], munstermansion.com; accessed September 13, 2015.
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