And BTW, who remembers the old Alice Cooper rumor?
Posted on 05/18/2020 1:03:57 PM PDT by sodpoodle
We are losing all the wonderful character actors who made our TV viewing fun, back when shows had value.
Wow he was much younger than I would have thought. Leave It To Beaver was old time when I was an adolescent in the 1980’s.
RIP
Wasn’t a huge star, but he was a household name. That’s pretty good.
Fifty years from now, certain young “celebrities” are going to pass away and I think only a very small number of people will remember them at all.
Rest in peace, Eddie.
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Didn’t know he’d been hit 5 times in a shoot out. Four to the vest and one to the belt buckle. Yikes. RIP sir.
RIP.
And he was in Army Reserve, from even before LITB ended.
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Gee Wally
Not your typical child star. RIP
He would call into Rush Limbaugh from time to time in the 90s.
He was my favorite on Leave it to Beaver. He was a funny but loveable character :)
My older brother had a good friend who reminded me so much of him. Once, on Halloween, he came to the door in a homemade Halloween costume and said to my mother, “Mrs. C, I’m afraid Lloyd had a slight altercation” at which precise moment my brother showed up with his costume in rips and a black eye.
Pretty much like Eddie Haskell.
1980’s? I didn’t realize it was on then.
I remember watching it in the ‘60’s.
He played a type, one that everybody could identify and laugh about, and he did it brilliantly. Far beyond what one would expect of an actor in his teens. I’d love to see outtakes of Billingsley and other cast members breaking up as Eddie laid on the saccharine. They must have existed once.
Yes, the show was so huge in reruns in the ‘70s and ‘80s that they launched revival series as “Still the Beaver” and “The New Leave it to Beaver.” Never really watched those, but the original was a staple of my childhood.
As a kid in the ‘70s and ‘80s, if someone said, “He’s like Eddie Haskell,” everyone knew exactly what that meant, i.e., a phony who was well-behaved and polite, or even obsequious, when in the company of adults, but a miscreant when just kids were around.
Slyly, the character of Eddie Haskell exposed the lack of understanding by adults of the real world that kids recognized and lived in. And Eddie Haskell gave kids a clue that similar characters would crop up throughout life in the form of flatterers and sociopaths that bedevil the workplace.
Eddie Haskell: Not me! Your father doesn’t like me.
Wally Cleaver: Why would you say that?
Eddie Haskell: On account of the way he looks at me when he opens the door. Sometimes I think he’d be happier to see Khrushchev standing there.
And BTW, who remembers the old Alice Cooper rumor?
I bought my grands all of the Leave It To Beaver shows - it’s a great series! They get a kick out of Eddie. I also bought Andy of Mayberry and The Waltons.
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