Actor best known as the original King of Cartoons on "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" -- via peewee.com. When the show moved from New York to L.A. in Season 2, Lewis was replaced by the great Shakespearean actor (and Blacula!) William Marshall. Still, there was something in Lewis's mien that was more disturbing -- that wall-eyed, drunken-hobo gaze that lurked at the edges of his geniality.