Ken Weatherwax, who as a child played the mild-mannered, bug-eating Pugsley on the original Addams Family TV show, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 59.
TMZ says Weatherwax died in his California home of a heart attack. A woman claiming to be his niece also posted about the death on Facebook.
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/addams.family.jpg" caption=""The Addams Family" in 1964." credit="ABC" alt="JOHN ASTIN, JACKIE COOGAN, TED CASSIDY, BLOSSOM ROCK; LISA LORING, CAROLYN JONES, KEN WEATHERWAX"]
Originally a New Yorker cartoon from the 1930s by Charles Addams, The Addams Family was adapted for TV by ABC. It ran for just two years, from 1964 to 1966, but lived on in syndication and movie versions.
Weatherwax also voiced Pugsley in the 1977 animated special Halloween with the New Addams Family, though other actors -- including a 10-year-old Jodi Foster -- gave voice to the character in various iterations through the years.
Weatherwax later found work in commercials but struggled to find regular TV work, eventually going behind the camera as a grip and set builder.