Lurch (The Addams Family) Lurch is a 6 ft 9 in (2.05 m) tall, shambling, gloomy butler who somewhat resembles a cross between Frankenstein's monster (as played by Boris Karloff) and a zombie. In the original "Addams Family" television series, Lurch has a deep and resonant voice unlike that of Herman Munster, a character on the show's main competitor, "The Munsters". Although fully capable of normal speech, Lurch often communicates via simple inarticulate moans, which, much like the dialogue of Cousin Itt, his employers have no trouble understanding. Like any butler, Lurch tries to help around the house, but occasionally his great size and
Three for the Road Goonies".) Ruck would continue acting in smaller roles until cast in the TV show "Spin City" (opposite Sheen in later seasons); Green, who had played the romantic lead to Sheen in "Lucas", did not appear in a mainstream film again. Writer Richard Martini has asserted that the screenplay was dramatically altered from his original. Instead of being a rebellious troublemaker, the character of Robin was shunned by her conservative Republican Senator father because she was an outspoken liberal activist who stages protests. When she finally finds her birth mother she discovers that she was a drug addict who never wanted