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Eddie Munster finds love with former Eagles Cheerleader

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Eddie Munster finds love with former Eagles Cheerleader

POSTED: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 8:03 AM

Dan Gross

Donna McCall and Butch Patrick

Butch Patrick regularly hears from fans who've had a crush on him since the '60s, when he played Eddie Munster on "The Munsters." "But not from a lot of cheerleaders," Patrick said, with a chuckle.

The actor just moved near West Chester to be with former Eagles cheerleader Donna McCall, who was a young "Munsters" fan with whom he corresponded in 1964. McCall, a retired hospital pharmacist, e-mailed Patrick a few months ago to say that something had triggered her memory of him. Patrick, who lived in Florida and Los Angeles, kept in touch with McCall, and the pair met in May at a vampire convention near Pittsburgh.

It was love at first bite, er, sight.

Patrick, who says he's always embraced the character of Eddie Munster but has done more acting, too, has just booked with 13Haunts.com to appear at the company's Halloween-themed fright events in the area throughout September and October.

Patrick also maintains a presence on Munsters.com.

McCall was known as Donna Auerbach while an Eagles cheerleader from 1976 to 1979.

Click here to read more from our column in Thursday's Daily News.

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Comments (39)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:33 AM, 07/22/2010

Why?

— Reprehensible

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:01 AM, 07/22/2010

why the f is this news?

— g$ is an idiot

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:21 AM, 07/22/2010

it was "love at first bite". Is Big Daddy Graham writing for you. Danno? KING~out

— thee~KING

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:56 AM, 07/22/2010

how the f is this news?

— g$ is an idiot

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:59 AM, 07/22/2010

Butch could rent out ad space on that forehead

— delcorules

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:26 PM, 07/22/2010

Butch looks liked a slimmed down version of Randall "Tex" Cobb, albeit wiht the Larry Fine hairdo.

— delcorules

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:37 PM, 07/22/2010

That's not a forehead, it's fivehead.

— johnnydomino

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:14 PM, 07/22/2010

I thought Ken Weatherax as Pugsley was better.

— fresa63

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:55 AM, 07/23/2010

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— anna smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:00 AM, 07/23/2010

Donna is so lucky. She will get to travel to Duluth and watch Eddie swindle $380 while signing 19 autographs for creepy, disturbed child-star stalking numskulls. And, perhaps be treated to the complimentary Motel 6 breakfast. Where have you gone Pat Priest?

— ShadyT