Paul Lynde, Actor: Bye Bye Birdie. In 1982, Lynde died alone in his bed of a … With Paul Lynde, Elizabeth Allen, John Calvin, Jane Actman.


Lynde attended Northwestern University, where he studied drama with classmates Charlotte Rae, Patricia O'Neal and Charlton Heston. Paul Simms, a quiet, respectable attorney living with his wife and two daughters has his life turned upside down when his eldest daughter's new husband, Howie, takes up residence in the Simms' household which drives Paul to distraction. “Paul Lynde’s success was not in spite of, but because of, how queer he was when it could not be spoken,” BenDeLaCreme says.

His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Created by Sam Bobrick, Ron Clark. Actor Paul Lynde was born on June 13, 1926, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys).
Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys).