Celebrity Biographies
Lou Cutell
He had a very long career, in secondary roles, usually not very significant, although he took advantage of his opportunity to shine in the series “Senfield” and in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”, Tim Burton’s debut. Actor Lou Cutell passed away on November 21, 2021, at the age of 91. “Sweet, affectionate, modest, smart and wickedly funny,” said Paul Reubens, who played Pee Wee Herman in the latter film, and announced the death.
Born in New York on October 6, 1930, into a family of Sicilian origin, Lou Cutell began his journey on the Broadway stage in the 1961 musical The Young Abe Lincoln . Three years later, he made his television debut with an episode of The series The Dick Van Dyke Show , which was followed by others that were highly successful at the time, such as The Wild Wild West and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
In cinema, Lou Cutell gave life to a doctor whose objective is to take all the women from Earth to Mars in Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), considered one of the worst films ever made. Luckily, he also appeared in higher quality titles, such as Little Big Man , Honey, I Shrunk the Kids , Maxie , The Odd Couple Again , or the aforementioned Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure , where he appeared characterized with a Mohawk hairstyle. .
He shone as a proctologist, in an episode of Seinfeld . In the last years of his career, Lou Cutell appeared in several episodes of Larry David , as Leo Funkhauser, father of the protagonist’s best friend. He made his last on-screen appearance on Grey’s Anatomy , in 2015, when he played a hospital patient in which the action takes place.
Little is known about his private life.