Al Lewis in the Flesh (1993)

[@peterkoester7358]

I grew up in Queens. I remember traveling into Greenwich Village on a few occasions with friends to eat at Grampa's. On at least two of those occasions, Mr. Al Lewis was present and greeting all the customers. He was a great guy to meet.

[@TheLostWorldFanChann]

2:20 *"Whenever you may be listening to this"* Little did he know at the time of that recording that we would be listening to it in 2022

[@danwat1234]

This should have SO many more views... Hope this stays up forever, should be on Internet Archive too. Al Lewis seems like a guy that never wanted to retire, wanted to stay busy and help others.

[@nox9810]

Yeah I feel if he was a real vampire and could live hundreds of years he still would be busy hanging around his restaurant and making appearances and of course smoking cigars.

[@JoeNocella]

Met Al at Grampa's. Big fan!

[@davidgarcia3597]

Him and people of his age are a national treasure, they lived thru the most hardest times in america, and lived to tell the tale. Of the greats of the era. God bless his soul...

[@WorldsWorstBoy]

Al was the ultimate badass. Miss em greatly. My dad's gotten to meet a lot of celebrities in his life and he always says Al Lewis was the nicest and funniest.

[@fasttony6012]

Al Lewis. One class act. They don’t make them like him anymore.

[@Dobby2487]

I was 6 years old when this came out and I would have loved to have met this man and said thank you for making our childhood all the more special because he was everyone's grandpa and Uncle Herman 🌹

[@jonleibow3604]

Most actors hate being typecast, but I love how he embraced being known as Grampa Munster

[@BadGuyRants]

Al Lewis has been such an influence on me. RIP

[@jayvic3776]

Two thumbs before it's even finished YEAHHH

[@dfulce]

I hate the fact I just discovered this...Met Al twice in the mid 70s, he was extremely kind with his time and spoke fondly of THE MUNSTERS at the time. I have a hand letter from him where he answered my questions about the show...He said his favourite episode was CURING HERMAN'S COLD...fine except no episode was titled that. .I think he meant the episode where Herman had a sinus problem..This shows he did not re watch the shows he did...when I first met him he pulled a 8x10 of Grandpa out for me, again at the time he was still proud of his work on the show....I guess as the years rolled by he tired a bit of the identification of just that one character, can you blame him ? Met Frank Gorshin multible times in the 70s and he loved his association with The Riddler...but as the years rolled on he clearly tired of being asked to do the laugh. Anyway, wonderful to see him at the restaurant you captured a moment in time..Thank you.

[@automatpictures]

Thanks Danny - this was my senior film at SUNY Purchase. Great memories...

[@salvagemonster3612]

I love this. I remember that this was a Mob fronted joint. That they agreed and worked it out with Al to put his name and face on it for few sheckles. He ate for free there. When he would hold court with the folks for Stern or whatever he would collect the money from them all and pocket the cash. Hahhaa

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Albert Meister (Nueva York, 30 de abril de 1910-Nueva York, 03 de febrero de 2006), conocido en los medios artísticos como Al Lewis, fue un actor estadounidense, inmortalizado en televisión como el Abuelo Munster. 95 AÑOS.