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The ring he wears on his
finger has a large diamond studded "PL" shining boldly. Given to him
by his father when Butch had a kidney removed, it signifies his real
name, Patrick Lilley.
Butch was born on August
2, 1953 in Los Angeles California. He made his acting debut in 1961
at the age of eight opposite Eddie Albert in the film
"The Two Bears". While living in Illinois with his
grandmother, Butch was flown to Los Angeles to test for the role of
Eddie Munster at CBS Studios. "I went in and an hour
later I came out with the job" he recalls. Although a cute little
kid, he could play brat parts easily.
Aside from acting, an
underlying interest throughout his life has been baseball. His step
dad incidentally is Ken Hunt who played for the
Yankees and the Washington Senators briefly.
Besides his two year stint
as a wolf boy with pointed ears, he was a regular on TV's "The
Real McCoys", "General Hospital" and "My Three Sons". In
between he appeared in numerous commercials and guest spots on many
situation comedies throughout the sixties.
In 1971 Butch starred in
the Saturday morning kid's series, "Lidsville"
opposite Charles Nelson Reilly. The show lasted until
1973 and zoomed Patrick into the teen-idol phase of his career with
his face gleaming on the covers of several teen magazines in the
early 1970s.
After that, little was
heard from Butch Patrick. He quit show business "to grow up" he
says, "because my first twenty years were spent working in an adult
world. I made up for it by being a hell raiser for the next ten
years". Soon after, the money ran short and Butch was working odd
jobs around the country. He even formed his own band, "Eddie
and the Monsters" and put out a single, "Whatever
Happened to Eddie?" which brought him some notoriety because
of his role in the Munsters. It was because of that single in 1983
that MTV created the `Basement Tapes'
which gave exposure to unsigned bands.
Patrick doesn't mind
talking about being Eddie Munster anymore, but at one
time he was bothered by it. He even boasts that he has saved the
original Woof- Woof doll after all these years. Around
Halloween Patrick is usually booked solid for events that toast the
Munsters and proudly welcome little Eddie, now all
grown up.
Although Butch lives in
St. Pete Beach, Florida he is constantly on the go and often off to
Hollywood and then Los Angeles, where his immediate family remains.
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