LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former child actor Stanley Fafara, who played Beaver's pal Whitey on the idyllic family sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" but descended into a real-life adulthood of drugs, alcohol and petty crime, has died at age 53, friends said on Friday. Fafara died in a Portland, Oregon, hospital on Saturday, Sept. 20, of complications from surgery he underwent last month to repair a constricted intestine caused by a hernia, according to Tom Hallman Jr., a reporter for the Portland Oregonian who knew him.