Lisa Loring, Wednesday in Original ‘Addams Family’ Series, Dies at 64 - Variety

Lisa Loring, who played the young Wednesday Addams connected “The Addams Family” from 1964 to 1966 and besides appeared successful “As the World Turns,” died Saturday of a stroke, her girl Vanessa Foumberg confirmed. She was 64.

“She went peacefully with some her daughters holding her hands,” Foumberg said.

A friend, Laurie Jacobson, reported her decease on Facebook, penning that she “was successful our hearts ever arsenic Wednesday Addams.”

Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster connected “The Munsters,” besides remembered her connected Facebook, writing, “Very atrocious to perceive of my beloved person Lisa Loring’s passing. We were precise adjacent and worked unneurotic often. I cognize she was precise weak. I was successful her institution conscionable a fewer weeks ago. Godspeed my friend.”

Loring’s shimmying frug creation called “The Drew” frug gained renewed attraction with the caller Netflix bid “Wednesday,” connected which Jenna Ortega does her ain mentation of Wednesday’s dance. Her quality Wednesday Addams was sweet-natured but gloomy, and had a penchant for collecting creepy pets including a achromatic widow spider named Homer and a lizard named Lucifer, arsenic good arsenic playing with a headless doll.

Loring was calved successful the Marshall Islands to parents who had served successful the Navy, and lived successful Hawaii earlier coming to Los Angeles with her mother. She started modeling astatine the property of 3 and past was formed successful an occurrence of “Dr. Kildare.”

After “The Addams Family” finished its two-season run, Loring joined Phyllis Diller’s sitcom “The Pruitts of Southampton.”

She made appearances connected bid including “The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.,” “Fantasy Island” and “Barnaby Jones,” past secured a recurring relation arsenic Cricket Montgomery connected “As the World Turns” from 1980 to 1983.

Later successful the 1980s, she had parts successful genre movies including “Savage Harbor” and “Blood Frenzy” and worked arsenic a constitution creator connected big films nether the sanction “Maxine Factor.”

She is survived by 2 daughters, Marianne and Vanessa.