Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys). His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). After graduating from Northwestern University, Lynde relocated to New York City where his first break came from being a stand-up comedian at the Number One Fifth Avenue nightclub. Then came an appearance on a Broadway show, "New Faces of 1952".
Send Me No Flowers
(Mr. Akins)
Bye Bye Birdie
(Harry McAfee)
Beach Blanket Bingo
(Bullets)
The Glass Bottom Boat
(Homer Cripps)
Charlotte's Web
(Templeton (voice))
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
(Murphy)
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
(Self (uncredited))
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
(Self)
Rabbit Test
(Dr. Roger Vidal)
For Those Who Think Young
(Syd Hoyt)
The Villain
(Nervous Elk)
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
(Himself)
Gidget Grows Up
(Louis B. Latimer)
Gidget Gets Married
(Louis B. Latimer)
How Sweet It Is!
(The Purser)
Son of Flubber
(Sportscaster)
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour : Christmas Special 1969
Hugo the Hippo
(Aban-Khan (voice))
New Faces
(Paul Lynde)
The Sandy Duncan Special
(Self)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
(Mr. MacAfee (segment "Bye Bye Birdie"))
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Journey Back to Oz
(Pumpkinhead (voice))
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
(Self/Uncle Arthur (archive footage))
Burke's Law
(Arthur Clark)
F Troop
Gidget
Love, American Style
I Dream of Jeannie
(Harry Huggins)
The Munsters
(Dr. Edward Dudley)
The Flying Nun
(Father Lundigan)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
That Girl
Donny & Marie
(Self)
Bewitched
(Uncle Arthur)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
Temperatures Rising
(Paul Mercy)
The Hollywood Palace
(Self)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
(Self)
Where's Huddles?
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
(Self)
Kraft Music Hall
The Patty Duke Show
Cattanooga Cats
The Paul Lynde Show
The Cara Williams Show
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
That's Life
Hollywood Squares
(The Center Square)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
(Self)
It's the Wolf
(Mildew)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self (archive footage))
Burke's Law
(Guy Hawthorne Jr.)
Burke's Law
(Dr. McCoy)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self - Co-Host)
The Bob Hope Show
(Self)
The Lux Show
(Self)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(Judge)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Stanley
(Horace Fenton)
The Carol Burnett Show
(Self)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Sportscaster (archive footage))
The Carol Burnett Show
(Self - Guest / Various Characters)
Tony Awards
(Self - Performer)
The Mothers-in-Law
(Wally Logan)
The Pet Set
(Self)
I Dream of Jeannie
(Porter)
I Dream of Jeannie
(Allen Kerr)
Kraft Music Hall
(Self)
Love, American Style
(Griswald)
Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show
The George Gobel Show
(Self)