Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, dies at age 64

Loring was just five when she starred in the 1964 TV adaptation of Charles Addams' macabre cartoons - a performance that has set the character's tone for decades

Lisa Loring, the actor who played Wednesday Addams in the first screen adaptation of The Addams Family, has died at the age of 64 from a stroke.

Loring died on Saturday night in hospital surrounded by family, her daughter told Variety.