Gomez Addams is one of the main characters from The Addams Family. Gomez is the husband of Morticia Addams and father of Wednesday and Pugsley. He is a crafty schemer, but also a jolly man in his own way. Though sometimes misguided, he is sentimental and often puckish — optimistic, he is in full enthusiasm for his dreadful plots. He is sometimes seen in a rather formal dressing gown, often smoking cigars.
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Gomez is somewhat grotesque appearance, with a tubby body, a snub-nose, a crooked tooth and a receding chin. In Charles Addams's original cartoons, Gomez was the nameless patriarch of the family. He was often depicted reading in the den or lounging on the windowsill. In the Charles Addams cartoons, Gomez—as with all of the members of the family—had no given name. When The Addams Family television series was being developed, Charles Addams suggested naming the character either Repelli or Gomez. Addams left the final choice up to portrayer John Astin, who chose Gomez. Gomez is the master of the Addams household and the Addams patriarch, married to Morticia and the father of Wednesday and Pugsley. In the 60's sitcom, he was Grandmama's son, but this was retconned in the 1991 film, and he became Grandmama's son-in-law instead, staying true to the comics. Also retconned in the films, he became the younger brother of Fester instead of his nephew-in-law. Gomez was depicted in the 60's sitcom as extremely wealthy, through inheritance and extensive investments, but he seemed to have little regard for money. Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the living room, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big (swamp land found to have oil under it, etc.). Gomez is of Castilian origin, loved to smoke cigars, and would play destructively with his model trains.