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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
You are correct. I forgot to include Ted Cassidy's name in the post. He played both Lurch and Thing. According to "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes In To TV" he signed a separate contract for each character.
Per Wikipedia, Ted Cassidy also did some voice work for Hanna-Barbera. I remember his appearances in the live-action/animated series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn were live action, everyone and everything else in the series was animated).
New trivia item: In the "The Wizard Of Oz" book series, the Tin Woodsman was originally human.
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And Dorothy's slippers were silver not ruby. MGM made them Ruby Red because silver was the color of the screen (the silver screen) and so it would have looked like Dorothy had no feet.