- Sam McMurray, The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas, TV, 1996. Most of the cast actually voted themselves out of a job… The reboot family from Here Come The Munsters, 1994 – succeeding TV’s Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis, etc – was due in a Yuletide sequel. Edward Herrmann, however, wanted a small pay rise for continuing as the patriarch, Herman(!). Impossible, declared the producers. Unless the rest of the family accepted a tiny pay-cut to pay for it. They did not. A new set of Munsters was hired… (An almost identical pay battle was the pivot of the Belgian entry at the 2014 Cannes Festival, Deux jours, une nuit/Two Days, One Night). A distinguished stage-screen actor, Herrmann, was a famous (thrice) Roosevelt, plus Joseph Breen, Lou Gehjrig, Raymond Massey, Nelson Rockefeller among fistfuls of presidents, governors, senators, doctors, reverends and other figures of wealth and/or power – as befitted his 6ft 5ins – in 130 screen roles.
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