https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/lisa-loring-dies-actor-original-wednesday-addams-was-64/ar-AA16SzQI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b10c4f68a8be4d4482a9865e92efa5eb#comments

That is terrible news! She played the role perfectly! Rest in peace Lori! Now John Astin is the only surviving cast member left

Really one of the better kid actors in sitcoms. RIP

If you had said to people when the series ended 57 years ago that the Gomez actor would end up being the last one standing, few would have believed you.

Lisa Loring's long-term smoking led to chronic hypertension which led to a massive stroke.

I also saw it happen to my mother.

Lisa Loring's long-term smoking led to chronic hypertension which led to a massive stroke.

I also saw it happen to my mother.

From her friend's Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/lauriejacobson/posts/pfbid02KNKu57gqZYxjVCbRHZXEB7oAo5uqNqzxqhsHJnBpazi75a6Dd23T4EXVAUf8c2xel?__cft__[0]=AZXE-KlTaOU7YK9frB4VjZjlQWdmDPLcklRK925IVJYrqOrNy7Xm7XrVCYKvN0T1P5uTJC1Vd_bEArmXAMrlty1G4YC-JeRTCwNNwuauiiFptQ&__cft__[1]=AZXE-KlTaOU7YK9frB4VjZjlQWdmDPLcklRK925IVJYrqOrNy7Xm7XrVCYKvN0T1P5uTJC1Vd_bEArmXAMrlty1G4YC-JeRTCwNNwuauiiFptQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R]-R):
It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend (https://www.facebook.com/asylumrecords/posts/pfbid0q42QTPyzjiQX3CWZMfxsspip7PKrB3Rd4JQXJcMVk9gWzni7sjDmbgK8mLLPrS3nl?__cft__[0]=AZWz0PzGdJPkU0Owz3LeOcxyVHbrh-2LuZGBAATX4nlHnO90ZCj76rhb4r5NYlZKHncFLEjeh8NjOLJgSMQiXjWopdpYSkVQ1j2y7r-fRyHOg9K91PmQMOF7Pd06HbUqEWk&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R), Lisa Loring. 4 Days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking (http://smokingsides.com/asfs/L/Loring.html) and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night. She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.

Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa's legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. And the legacy for her family and friends -- a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. RIP, Lisa. Damn, girl...you were a ton of fun.

Without Loring, there would be no Ricci or Ortega.

Without Loring, there would be no Ricci or Ortega.

I never understood how Wednesday evolved into such a dark character. In the 60s show, she was the sweetest one in the family

If you had said to people when the series ended 57 years ago that the Gomez actor would end up being the last one standing, few would have believed you.

John Astin even managed to outlive Raul Julia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Julia), who portrayed Gomez in the 1991 movie and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values, before succumbing to cancer at the age of 54 in 1994.

Rest in peace, Lisa

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Sad news. RIP.

She was the cutest kid!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadlin...235243958/amp/

Lisa Loring, best known for bring Wednesday Addams to life in The Addams Family sitcom in the mid-1960s, has died. She was 64.

Loring’s close friend Laure Jacobson shared in a Facebook post news of her death on January 28 after the actor was taken off life support following “a massive stroke.”

“It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring. 4 Days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night,” Jacobson informed on the social media post.

She continued, “She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams. Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa’s legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. RIP, Lisa. Damn, girl…you were a ton of fun.”

Loring’s work as Wednesday Addams had recently resurged following Jenna Ortega’s portrayal of the iconic character in the Netflix series. Loring was the original Wednesday in the first live-action adaptation of Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons. The show produced 64 episodes between two seasons from 1964 through 1966.

After The Addams Family, Loring, who was born Lisa Ann DeCinces in Kwajelein, Marshall Islands on February 16, 1958, went on to make appearances on multiple shows like The Phyllis Diller Show, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Fantasy Island, Barnaby Jones and As the World Turns, where she had a recurring role as Cricket Montgomery.


Loring went on to reprise her Wednesday role in 1977 in the television movie Halloween with the New Addams Family. Her last acting credit was in 2015 with the film Doctor Spine.

I'm shocked. R.I.P. Lisa. :(

Very sad news. So young. RIP.

I never understood how Wednesday evolved into such a dark character. In the 60s show, she was the sweetest one in the family

As a survivor of ab*se in childhood (female disability aide at school who beat me for refusing to use my paralysed left hand and arm) the praise of "dark Wednesday" from women reviewers is disquieting and unnerving. Women don't only kill or act violent in response to ab*se - that is just a comforting falsehood.

Without Loring, there would be no Ricci or Ortega.
I know. This is why I scowl when I see people refer to Christina Ricci as the original Wednesday. Sure, she was terrific in the role, but she wasn't the original.

I know. This is why I scowl when I see people refer to Christina Ricci as the original Wednesday. Sure, she was terrific in the role, but she wasn't the original.

ditto with Christopher Lloyd and Jackie Coogan.

As another poster noted, only John Astin (now 92) is left. Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) died in 2014 and Felix Silla died in 2021. Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, Jackie Coogan, and Blossom Rock are long gone.

Without Loring, there would be no Ricci or Ortega.

No offense to Ortega but she was terrible as Wednesday and was not a good fit

:rip:

Lisa Loring's long-term smoking led to chronic hypertension which led to a massive stroke.

I also saw it happen to my mother.

It's possible that Lisa suffered from peripheral arterial disease (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-artery-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350557). This is because smoking causes (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart/smoking#:~:text=Smoking%20and%20Your%20Heart%20and%20Blood%20Vessels&text=The%20chemicals%20you%20inhale%20when,the%20heart%20and%20blood%20vessels.) atherosclerosis (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/arteriosclerosis-atherosclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350569#:~:text=Atherosclerosis%20is%20the%20buildup%20of,leading%20to%20a%20blood%20clot.), a disease in which plaque builds up in you arteries, leading to PAD. All in all, tobacco smoke contains harmful chemicals, which damage the ability of the heart to function properly.

Even with medication, clogged arteries force the heart to pump harder, which can lead to a stroke. And smoking itself, raises blood pressure (https://healthmatch.io/high-blood-pressure/why-smoking-increases-blood-pressure#:~:text=Nicotine%20increases%20the%20chances%20of,smoke%2C%20your%20blood%20pressure%20rises.).

It's possible that Lisa suffered from peripheral arterial disease (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-artery-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350557). This is because smoking causes (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart/smoking#:~:text=Smoking%20and%20Your%20Heart%20and%20Blood%20Vessels&text=The%20chemicals%20you%20inhale%20when,the%20heart%20and%20blood%20vessels.) atherosclerosis (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/arteriosclerosis-atherosclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350569#:~:text=Atherosclerosis%20is%20the%20buildup%20of,leading%20to%20a%20blood%20clot.), a disease in which plaque builds up in you arteries, leading to PAD. All in all, tobacco smoke contains harmful chemicals, which damage the ability of the heart to function properly.

Even with medication, clogged arteries force the heart to pump harder, which can lead to a stroke. And smoking itself, raises blood pressure (https://healthmatch.io/high-blood-pressure/why-smoking-increases-blood-pressure#:~:text=Nicotine%20increases%20the%20chances%20of,smoke%2C%20your%20blood%20pressure%20rises.).

In the last few years of Mum's life, the hardening of her arteries from her long years of smoking was leading to "good and bad" days mentally as well as physical problems. And near her end, the bad days were happening more frequently.

The last time i talked to her before she died, she was incoherent, jumping from topic to topic. She thought that Dad was missing and that our dogs had escaped.

I chose to remember Mum how she once was - and not her as she was that day.

I never understood how Wednesday evolved into such a dark character. In the 60s show, she was the sweetest one in the family

I agree. She was a sweet little girl. The only thing morbid about her was the decapitated doll.

Really, the whole family were nice, gentle people (maybe not Lurch, he was however harmless), and this was the humor of the show (as well as The Munsters), dont look at people on the surface.

I agree. She was a sweet little girl. The only thing morbid about her was the decapitated doll.

Really, the whole family were nice, gentle people (maybe not Lurch, he was however harmless), and this was the humor of the show (as well as The Munsters), dont look at people on the surface.


I think Lurch was a softie. He would often do things to make sure the children were happy, and how he cried when his harpsicord was given away was kinda heart-breaking.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/lisa-loring-wednesday-addams-goth-girls-icon

An icon for goth girls everywhere’ – thank you, Lisa Loring, for making Wednesday Addams great



There have been many incarnations of Wednesday Addams since Charles Addams first published The Addams Family cartoons in the New Yorker. In those first cartoons, she never even had a name. It was not until five-year-old Lisa Loring played the role in the 1964 series that Charles Addams christened the little girl Wednesday. Taking the name from the Monday’s Child nursery rhyme, Loring became Gomez and Morticia’s daughter who was “full of woe”. The character, complete with her signature two long braids, black dress and crisp white collar, became an icon for goth girls everywhere. Loring’s Wednesday always seemed wise beyond her years and cool in the face of all the spooky happenings in the Addams’ mansion, creating the lovable morbid character who would capture the cultural imagination beyond any other family member. To this day, Wednesday Addams, and Loring’s performance, is beloved by horror nerds, classic comedy fans and generations of women who grew up empowered by a character so unashamedly marching to the beat of her own drum.

The original show was shot in black and white and only ran for two seasons, but it came to be regarded as a classic TV sitcom that balanced zany slapstick with political satire. Creator David Levy kept the heart of the cartoon, with Wednesday and her family being spooky oddballs but ultimately a loving family. The show’s 64 episodes aired on ABC in the US and ITV in the UK, but syndication means reruns are still being broadcast today.



Loring’s spell on the sitcom would end with its cancellation in 1966, but she returned in Technicolor alongside the original cast for a 1977 Halloween special TV film. Now a teenager, but still in the same pigtails and black dress, she brought a surly new monotone to Wednesday, while still making her innately lovable. Those signatures would carry forward into the many future iterations of the character in films, cartoons, on Broadway and most recently, in Netflix’s hit series where Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday took centre stage.

Perhaps most famous, though, would be Christina Ricci, who had an uncanny resemblance to Loring in the 1991 film The Addams Family and 1993’s Addams Family Values. At 11 and 13 in the films, Ricci’s Wednesday was a little older than Loring’s but had the same precocious demeanour and steely deadpan delivery. In recognition of Loring’s defining performance, the Netflix show included a dance Ortega has said was an opportunity to pay “homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams” and tweeted her thanks to the star. The dance, in which Ortega cuts a series of unexpected shapes on the dancefloor, went viral. Ortega does the same spirited shuffle Loring did in the sitcom episodes Lurch Learns to Dance and Lurch’s Grand Romance, where she danced with wild, idiosyncratic abandon.

In the decades that followed, Loring appeared in a series of sitcoms, soaps and the occasional slasher film but never secured another part as iconic as Wednesday Addams. While no longer in the limelight, she raised two daughters who were by her bedside this week after a stroke that proved fatal. She gave very few interviews, but she embraced the enduring legacy of her character, reuniting with her fellow Addams family cast members for the 2006 DVD release of the series, and was a regular at conventions and fan events where she would do meet-and-greets and sign Addams Family merchandise.

Now, after her death at the age of 64, the only living member of that Addams family is John Astin, who played her father, Gomez Addams. But the legacy of the show about lovable outsiders continues, and the reruns show they have not lost their charm. The finger snaps in the theme tune, the Groucho Marx-esque wit and the subversive look at US family values have not dulled with time. And Loring in pigtails is still giving other girls permission to embrace their spooky sides, celebrate what makes them different and dance like no one is watching.

Lisa Loring's Best Wednesday Episodes in The Addams Family (https://www.cbr.com/lisa-loring-best-wednesday-the-addams-family/)

The late Lisa Loring originated Wednesday Addams in the first Addams Family TV show. Here's a look at some of her best performances in the role.

Oh man... A stroke brought on by smoking...ohno:

Perfect way to render yourself too good to last. Lisa Loring's 65th birthday will not be celebrated because of this.

:rip: