Lou Cutell Dies: ‘Seinfeld’ Character Actor Who Had 50-Year Career Was 91 - Deadline
Lou Cutell, who played the “Assman” on Seinfeld and the rainbow-Mohawked Amazing Larry in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure among 100-plus TV and film credits spanning five decades, has died.“After 91 years, and a great life, my friend Lou Cutell went home,” Furman posted Sunday (see it below).“A film, theater and character actor.
By the late 1960s, Cutell was becoming a busy character actor on TV, guesting on such series as Room 222, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Bridget Loves Bernie. He also had big-screen roles in the Dustin Hoffman-Faye Dunaway Western Little Big Man (1970), the Zero Mostel-Gene Wilder romp Rhinoceros (1974) and as a frightened villager in Wilder’s Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein (1974).Cutell continued as a busy character actor through the 1970s and into the 2010s, with his most recent credits including a guest shot on Grey’s Anatomy in 2015 and playing various characters on the elderly-prank-the-young’uns series Betty White’s Off Their Rockers.