John Zacherle, a rail-thin B-movie actor who in the late 1950s and '60s became a wildly popular host of children's television shows in Philadelphia and New York, where he appeared dressed as a ghoulish undertaker with a sophisticated wit and a sinister laugh, died on Oct. 27, four days before Halloween. He was 98.
Zacherle's death may come as a shock to …
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