Ted Cassidy

Ted Cassidy is forever locked into my memory as a towering screen presence, and the basketball-player background in his profile makes perfect sense of that. A Pittsburgh native who studied at Stetson University, he used his unusual height to carve out a niche as a character actor and voice performer in 1960s and 1970s American television and film. I find it a little bittersweet that his life was cut short in 1979, because there's a sense he could have kept reinventing that imposing physicality. To me he's proof that a distinctive presence can become a whole career.

Name (English)

Ted Cassidy

Name (Japanese)

テッド・キャシディ

Reading

てっど・きゃしでぃ

Born

July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

actor / basketball player / television actor / film actor / voice actor

University

Stetson University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• actor
• basketball player
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.