Paul Lynde
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Lynde in 1972, age 46
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| Birth name | Paul Edward Lynde |
| Born |
June 13, 1926 Mount Vernon, Ohio |
| Died | January 11, 1982 (aged 55) Beverly Hills, California |
| Resting place | Amity Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio |
| Medium | Comedian, TV personality, actor, voice artist |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Years active | 1944–1982 |
Paul Edward Lynde (/lɪnd/; June 13, 1926 – January 11, 1982) was an American comedian, voice artist, actor and TV personality.
A noted character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in-the-closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie. He was also the regular "center square" panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981, and he voiced two Hanna-Barbera productions; he was Templeton the gluttonous rat in Charlotte's Web and The Hooded Claw in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.
Paul Lynde was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the son of Hoy Coradon and Sylvia Bell (Doup) Lynde. He graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1944, and then studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where his fellow students included Cloris Leachman, Charlotte Rae, Patricia Neal, Jeffrey Hunter and Claude Akins. At Northwestern, he joined the Upsilon chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma and is listed among the more famous members of the fraternity. He graduated in 1948 and moved to New York City, where he initially worked as a stand-up comic.
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