Al Lewis
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Al Lewis was an American actor, film actor, television actor, and radio personality who was born in Manhattan on April 30, 1923, and died in New York City on February 3, 2006.
Lewis was educated at Thomas Jefferson High School and went on to build a career that spanned multiple entertainment media, working in film, television, and radio as an English-language performer and United States citizen.
The available record does not document a named collaborator, successor, or specific production associated with Lewis, so his biography closes on the concrete fact of his death in New York City on February 3, 2006, the city where his documented life both began and ended.
Quotes by Al Lewis
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
