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) episode of "The Munsters" he looks in the mirror and casts a reflection. However, he does not cast a reflection in later incarnations, nor does he appear on film or in pictures. Traditionally, vampires (including Sesame Street's Count von Count) do not cast reflections. A running gag on the show, later adopted in "The Munsters Today", is Grandpa's attempts to bite someone on the arm which usually ends in failure. Al Lewis was the only actor from the original series to reprise his role in a 1973 unsold pilot for an animated cartoon titled "The Mini-Munsters". In 1987, he reprised