Lily Munster got on well. De Carlo approached the role with Donna Reed as her primary inspiration. Lily Munster Lily Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom, "The Munsters", originally played by Yvonne De Carlo. The matriarch of the Munster household, Lily is a vampire. The role was later played by Lee Meriwether in "The Munsters Today" and by Portia de Rossi in the unsold 2012 pilot "Mockingbird Lane". Lily was first introduced in the 2nd pilot episode and is the only family member to not appear in the original pilot episode. In the original pilot Herman was married to
Grandpa (The Munsters) Grandpa (The Munsters) Grandpa is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom "The Munsters", originally played by Al Lewis. The doting, irritable, and sarcastic father of Lily Munster, Grandpa is an undead vampire. The role was later played by Howard Morton in the 1980s television series "The Munsters Today". The character's full name is given as "Vladimir Dracula, Count of Transylvania". A running gag in both the original series and follow up "The Munsters Today" is his extreme age - his car, the DRAG-U-LA bearing his gravestone - reading "born 1367–?". Grandpa talks of having personally known various figures throughout