Butch Patrick (Eddie)
Butch Patrick is an American actor, and you probably remember him best as the werewolf, Eddie Munster on The Munsters (1964-66) and the feature film, Munsters, Go Home (1966). His first acting role had been on The Two Little Bears (1961), a comedy-fantasy.He also appeared on Lidsville (1971-73), along with innumerable guest-starring roles.
He later explained, “I owe my career to my sister. She was the one who got me started and gave me all the encouragement.” Like many fellow child actors, though, he also struggled with drug addiction, and he went into rehab in 2010. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year later, and told Star, “I went 41 years trying to kill myself. And then finally got to the point when I want to live I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. My first thought when I was told this was ‘Isn’t this a kicker?’ I get clean, my life is together, and now God is going to punch my ticket.”
