Paul Edward Lynde (June 13, 1926 β January 10, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and game-show panelist. Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, as the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie, and as a regular "center square" panelist on the game show The Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981. He also voiced animated characters for five Hanna-Barbera productions. Lynde was one of six children and the middle of four boys. His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). After graduating from Northwestern University, Lynde relocated to New York City where his first break came from being a stand-up comedian at the Number One Fifth Avenue nightclub. Then came an appearance on a Broadway show, "New Faces of 1952".
as Self/Uncle Arthur (archive footage)
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as Mr. MacAfee (segment "Bye Bye Birdie")
as Nervous Elk
as Dr. Roger Vidal
as Self(21 eps)
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as Templeton (voice)
as Pumpkinhead (voice)
as Paul Mercy(20 eps)
as Louis B. Latimer
as Self(1 ep)
as Louis B. Latimer
as Griswald(1 ep)
as Mildew(25 eps)
as Self(8 eps)
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as Self(2 eps)
as Self(2 eps)
as Self - Guest / Various Characters(3 eps)
as Wally Logan(1 ep)
as Father Lundigan(1 ep)
as The Center Square
as Self - Center Square(15 eps)
as Self(3 eps)
as Homer Cripps
as Harry Huggins(1 ep)
as Porter(1 ep)
as Allen Kerr(1 ep)
as Bullets
as Mr. Akins
as Dr. Edward Dudley(3 eps)
as Uncle Arthur(6 eps)
as Syd Hoyt
as Self(4 eps)
as Murphy
as Judge(1 ep)
as Arthur Clark(1 ep)
as Guy Hawthorne Jr.(1 ep)
as Dr. McCoy(1 ep)
as Harry McAfee
as Sportscaster
as Self(1 ep)
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as Self - Co-Host(2 eps)
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as Horace Fenton(6 eps)
as Self - Performer(1 ep)
as Dr. Metz
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as Self(1 ep)
as Paul Lynde
as Self(3 eps)
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