On "The Addams Family", Ted Cassidy played not only Lurch but this disembodied hand as well
Though it only ran for two years, The Addams Family ranked #23 in the Top 25 ... 
and Thing T. Thing, a disembodied hand that fetches the mail and lights ... behind 
Morticia's chair is Lurch the Butler, played by Ted Cassidy, who ... like a gangster
not contemporary gangsters, but the 1940s gangster style.