Born: January 11, 1937

Felix Silla was born in Rome Italy, and immigrated to the United States when he was sixteen. Felix stared his career with the Ringling Brothers Circus. In the 50's he moved to LA and became "Commodore P.O.P." for the Pacific Oceans Amusement Grounds. It was here that the producers of the newly signed Addams Family show saw him. thus Cousin Itt was born.
Since that time, Mr. Silla has portraid many different characters in many tv shows as well as Cinema. Some of his more memorial portrails were as "Twiki" the robot in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" and as an Ewok in the third Star Wars movie, " Return of The Jedi" He has also done stunt work and under cover acting for such show as "HR Puffinstuff", "ET", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Batman Returns". By the way, Felix was never in "The Wizard of Oz". Currently, Felix and his wife Sue live in California.
They were married in 1965 and have three children.
Keep track of Felix by visiting his web site, "The Worlds of Felix Silla"

John Franklin

Born: unknown

John Franklin is another one those well-known people who blend into the background. You probably would never notice him in person. His on- screen credits, on the other hand are well known.
In addition to playing cousin Itt in both the Addams Family and Addams Family Values movies, he has portrayed Isaac Chroner in " the Children of the Corn", a jockey in " Wag the Dog", and as the owner in "The Killing Grounds" John recently revived his role as Isaac in "Children of the Corn 666 'Isaac's Return'." Due out in October 1999.