The kid-centric Leave It to Beaver, created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher for Revue Studios, premiered on CBS on Oct. “It was not supposed to be a recurring role when I did the first show,” Osmond said in a 2014 interview, “but apparently there was good feedback and the producers liked the character.” He had three auditions before he was cast as Eddie. In his onscreen debut, Osmond played a child on the Mayflower in MGM’s Plymouth Adventure (1952), starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney and Van Johnson, then appeared on episodes of TV shows including Lassie, Fury and Annie Oakley. “She had me dancing on stage before I was old enough to even have a memory of it.” “I had a typical stage mother as a child,” he said in a 2009 interview with the Los Angeles Daily News. Kenneth Charles Osmond was born on June 7, 1943, in Glendale, California. Ken Osmond, Late Actor and Former Officer, Mourned by LAPD Psychologists who recognize that some people reserve one personality for superiors and another for everyone else call that “Eddie Haskell Syndrome” or the “Eddie Haskell Effect.” “And everyone in America knew an Eddie Haskell at some point in his or her lives.” “The poster child for sneaky, rotten kids everywhere, he was the reference point for cautious mothers to warn their children about,” Mathers wrote of Haskell in the foreword to Osmond’s 2014 book, Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy. Donaldson (Phyllis Coates of Lois Lane fame) gives the Beaver a peck on the cheek as thanks for bringing her flowers as a welcoming gift, Eddie gets the poor kid worried: “Suppose her husband finds out?” “Just look at the stuff that came in: No dogs, no cats, no fishing poles, no kids, just a crummy canary.” Then, after Mrs. “Boy, are you going to have creepy neighbors,” he tells Wally in his first scene. He stirred up trouble for the first of many times when he, Wally and Beaver spy the couple moving in next door to the Cleavers on the series’ fifth episode. Cleaver” - but was mean to Wally’s younger brother, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver (Jerry Mathers). In 1980, a suspected car thief shot him three times, leaving him severely wounded and effectively ending his days on the job.Īs the best friend of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow), Eddie was well-mannered and the epitome of polite when interacting with the adults of the show, especially Barbara Billingsley’s character - “My, you look lovely today, Mrs. In between the two programs, Osmond spent 18 years with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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