Posted on 06/02/2021 11:37:28 AM PDT by mylife
Jerry Mathers was born on June 2, 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa to Norm and Marilyn Mathers. His father was the principal of a high school and later became a school district executive in Los Angeles. Mathers grew up in Rock Rapids near Los Angeles, California. He has a younger sister, Susie Mathers McSweeney, and a younger brother Jimmy Mathers, who were both child actors.
Mathers did a commercial for a department store when he was a two-year-old. He also acted in a PET milk commercial with comedian Ed Wynn. This opened up opportunities for him to get roles in TV series and films.
Jerry Mathers debuted in films when he was four. In 1952, he appeared in the film ‘Son of Paleface’ and in 1954, he was seen in ‘Men of the Fighting Lady’ and ‘This Is My Love.’ He appeared in ‘The Seven Little Foys’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Trouble with Harry’ in 1955. He played Norman Taylor in the 1956 film ‘That Certain Feeling’. In that year, he also played Freddie in the film ‘Bigger Than Life’.
While in high school he joined the United States Air Force Reserve and continued to serve there even after he graduated from high school in 1967. Later he rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1973, he attended the University of California, Berkeley and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. After he graduated, he joined a bank as a commercial loan officer. He also started a real estate business with the royalty money he used to get every week. In 1978, he returned to show business and was featured in a comedy play ‘Boeing, Boeing’ in Kansas City. In 1981, he joined KEZY-AM radio in Anaheim, California as a disc jockey.
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I’m surprised that the excerpt from his biography didn’t include that show.
I posted a few days ago that we finally got rid of DishNetwork after 25 years and went to streaming. We get a bunch of old shows like Fury, Sky King, Rifleman(which we got on Dish) Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, Dennis the Menace, Ozzie and Harriet and lots more old TV shows we saw as kids. We love it. I must say on some days it doesn’t “stream” but you just have to keep checking back but there are so many things to choose from you’re never without something to watch. I don’t know what illness you had but I’m very glad you’re well now........;)
Lumpy was the best.
Well, that is except for commie-libs who go out of their way to denigrate life in the 1950s and use "Leave it to Beaver" as everything that is wrong with America.
There was a show before "Survivor" became a big hit where they had Mathers on as a contestant and the audience voted people off. It ran only one night. He was the winner at the end. The audience still remembers him fondly despite the commie-libbers.
Soupy Sales made a record called "the Mouse"......Heard it for the first time on Sunday....
Eddie Haskell. One for the ages.
great!
many of the old shows were far far far better than most of the new ones!
there are some on youtube (politics of its ownership aside).
and we got some great ones on DVD’s too.
i hope to get the set for Carol Burnett next, smile smile
It’s a shame that the Beav’s mother didn’t teach him how to speak Jive.
“Chump don’t want no he’p, chump don’t get no he’p.”
“Trouble with Harry” was great and he was great in it.
I think the Beav finally had enough and killed Eddie.
Jeez Beaver, Happy Birthday.
Who would’ve thought that Eddie Haskell would be in law enforcement?
Before Hub retired we got on a “complete set” set tear and ordered the full set of Gun Smoke, North and South ( which took us several weekends of hours and hours to complete and a years supply of popcorn) as well as House MD, Frasier Ken Burns Civil War and many others. I hope our kids will appreciate some of these “pre-woke” things we have like the original Walt Disney films we got for our grands who except for one are all grown and I think our daughter still has the ones she got for her kids and will keep them.
I watch him every day. Happy Birthday Jerry.
“So many guys his age, born in 1948, are names on the Vietnam Wall “
That’s my year, too, as well as my ex-husband’s. I remember the day they brought in a TV to the cafeteria at college while we all watched the lottery. Sad. Fiance’ had a low number.
Oh Stewardess, I speak Jive.
The longest day of my life was when Hub got called down for his physical....his hearing or lack of kept him out and it almost kept him out of a career in law enforcement but the kind of hearing he lacked wasn’t a problem with the department but it was for Uncle Sam. I thank God for it but mourned the loss of my generation in that war and still think about those guys often......;(
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