Felix Silla, 'Cousin Itt' on TV's 'The Addams Family,' dies at 84
Felix Silla, who worked inside a body-length hairpiece, behind a pair of sunglasses and underneath a bowler hat in his guise as the mumbling Cousin Itt on the 1960s ABC comedy The Addams Family, has died. He was 84. Silla, a longtime Las Vegas resident, died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his friend Gil Gerard, his co-star on the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, reported on Twitter.
Born in Roccacasale, Italy, on Jan. 11, 1937, Silla came to the U.S. in 1955. He toured for about seven years with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — he was a trapeze artist and tumbler and could ride bareback — before staying put in Hollywood as a stuntman in 1962.
Silla played Cousin Itt 17 times on the show, which lasted just two seasons but has lived on for decades in reruns and syndication.
Silla moved to Las Vegas in 2003, played harmonica in a band and signed lots and lots of autographs at fan conventions. Survivors include his wife, Sue, whom he married in 1965, and their children, Bonnie and Michael.
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