Editing Gomez Addams (section)

==Portrayals==
[[Image:Rauljulia gomez.JPG|thumb|right|250px|[[Raul Julia]] (left) as Gomez in [[The Addams Family (1991 film)|the 1991 live-action film]]]]
In the 1960s [[United States|American]] [[television series]], Gomez was portrayed by John Astin. Astin also voiced the character in an episode of ''[[The New Scooby-Doo Movies]]'', which featured the family. In the first animated series by [[Hanna-Barbera]], Gomez was voiced by [[Lennie Weinrib]]. In the second animated series, also by Hanna-Barbera, Gomez's voice was again performed by John Astin.

Gomez was played by [[Raul Julia]] in ''[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]'' (1991) and ''[[Addams Family Values]]'' (1993). After Julia died in 1994, [[Tim Curry]] took up the role in the television film ''[[Addams Family Reunion]]'' in 1998, and in 1999, Gomez was played by [[Glenn Taranto]] in the TV series ''[[The New Addams Family]]'', where he returned to the madcap attitude of his original 1960s incarnation with Astin guest-starring as Gomez's grandfather. In the [[The Addams Family (musical)|Broadway musical]], Gomez was initially played by [[Nathan Lane]] and later by [[Roger Rees]]. In the UK tour of ''The Addams Family'' musical in 2017, Gomez was portrayed by Cameron Blakely, who was set to reprise his role in 2021. The films differ from the television series in several ways, most significantly that [[Uncle Fester|Fester]] is Gomez's brother (in the television show, he was Morticia's uncle). ''The Addams Family'' notes that Gomez's parents were murdered by an angry mob, though in one scene in the sequel, when Gomez catches Fester with a pornographic magazine, they both look at the centerfold (unseen by the viewer) and fondly say "Mom". In ''Addams Family Values'', Gomez and Morticia have a third child named Pubert, a seemingly indestructible baby with a thin, black moustache like his father.

[[Oscar Isaac]] voiced Gomez in the [[The Addams Family (2019 film)|2019 animated adaptation of ''The Addams Family'']] and its [[The Addams Family 2|2021 sequel]]. In the latter film, it is revealed that Gomez wears a wig made of [[Bigfoot|Sasquatch]] fur due to losing his original hair in a napalm accident.

[[Luis Guzmán]] portrays Gomez in [[Netflix]] series ''[[Wednesday (TV series)|Wednesday]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wednesday Addams Netflix Series Casts Luis Guzmán As Gomez|url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/wednesday-addams-netflix-series-casts-luis-guzman-as-gomez-1234810548/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |first=Denise|last=Petski|date=August 6, 2021}}</ref> Both he and Morticia first met at Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for supernatural people (also known as "Outcasts"). It is revealed in flashbacks that he and Morticia were involved in the death of a local teenage boy named Garrett Gates, who tried to kill Gomez in a blind rage, due to Gates' own infatuation with Morticia. Sheriff Galpin still believes that Gomez committed the murder and holds a grudge against the Addams' bloodline. After Gomez is re-arrested for Gates' murder, Morticia and [[Wednesday Addams|Wednesday]] exhume Gates' body and find evidence that Gates died of accidental nightshade poisoning, clearing Gomez.