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After getting up to all sorts of shenanigans on Leave It to Beaver, Mathers traded the fictional town of Mayfield for a real-life high school experience. The actor who played the show’s namesake, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, is still alive. RELATED: ‘Leave It to Beaver’: Real-Life Brothers Inspired Wally and Beaver Cleaver Jerry Mathers is still alive He reprised his role as Wally Cleaver in the 1980s and eventually became a director and producer. After the iconic sitcom ended, Dow continued his acting career. That led him to Leave It to Beaver, which at the time was called Wally and The Beaver.
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Can Tony go with me because we kind of look alike?’ He figured maybe that was the only way to get it.”ĭow landed a role in a pilot series called Johnny Wildlife but it didn’t take off. “He told my mom, ‘I’m going to this interview for a show where they’re looking for a father and son.
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“I was working out at the Hollywood athletic club and there was a lifeguard there who was an actor,” Dow told Fox News in 2019. He’d been an accomplished diver and only went to an audition by chance. Dow, now 75, landed the role of the oldest Cleaver sibling as a child with little to no acting experience. Tony Dow, or Wally Cleaver to Leave It to Beaver fans, is still alive. Osmond, an LA police officer between the original series and its revival, is considering an "Eddie Haskell for President" campaign, a la Pat Paulsen.(L-R): Tony Dow (Wally Cleaver), Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver), Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver), and Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver) | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Mathers, 41, will return to his LA businesses, which include a pawn shop and computer graphics franchise operation, and is said to be discussing a radio show.
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1 Mom, Billingsley, now 67, also will continue acting and making personal appearances. Filming in an LA shopping mall, by contrast, would have been so colossal a chore that the idea never would have been broached.ĭow, 44, who has recently directed a couple of episodes of Lassie, another series resurrection, will continue to pursue opportunities in acting, directing and screen writing. The community attitude had made it possible to freshen the show with more location shooting, he said. weekdays.) And Dow recalls the 19 shot in Florida as some of the series's best. (On Central Florida cable, WWOR-New York airs the series at 5 p.m. The 105 episodes will continue to circulate in syndication. "I thought we were part of a grand scheme to kick things off down there." Dow put his money where his optimism was and bought a house last spring in Winter Park: "I thought somebody at Universal had bigger plans than they did for the show," said Dow, back in Los Angeles pondering the sale of his Florida property. No one in the cast or crew thought the show had come to Orlando to die, at least not in so short a time.
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The New Beaver also initiated more than a few of its unseasoned Florida crew into the frenetic pace of TV series production.Īlthough it never lived up to the original series, which ran from 1957 to 1963, the show had enough die-hard fans to survive five years, 105 episodes and - almost every season - premature eulogies. The show was the second TV series, behind Superboy, to go into production here and the first to test Universal's new sound stages. Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Ken Osmond and Barbara Billingsley rolled into town a year ago and became the city's first resident celebrities.