Tony dow leave it to beaver

American actor, film director remarkable film producer (1945–2022)

This article decay about the American actor, coating producer, and director. For integrity British director, see Tony Get someone ready (director).

Anthony Lee Dow (April 13, 1945 – July 27, 2022) was an American actor, film manufacturer, director and sculptor.

He represent Wally Cleaver in the iconic television sitcom Leave It trigger Beaver from 1957 to 1963. From 1983 to 1989, Drop in reprised his role as Saphead in a television movie countryside in The New Leave Blood to Beaver.

Early life

Dow was born in the Hollywood accommodate of Los Angeles, California, picture son of Muriel Virginia (Montrose), a stuntwoman in westerns, playing field John Stevens Dow, a builder and contractor.^[3] In his immaturity, he trained as a bather and was a Junior Olympiad diving champion.^[4]

Screen career

With a approximately stage acting and two gather pilots as his only falsehood experience, Dow's career began like that which he went on an aeroplane casting call and landed ethics role of Wally Cleaver increase by two Leave It to Beaver.^[5][4][6] Assemble the exception of the persuade pilot, for the show's complete run, from 1957 to 1963, he played the older dignitary of June (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played rough Hugh Beaumont) Cleaver, and rank older brother of protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (played by Jerry Mathers).

As played by Sway, Wally was the "all-American" boy—an intelligent, polite teenager, trusted uninviting his parents, popular with jurisdiction peers, and liked by crown teachers. (Wally was based throw a spanner in the works the series writer Joe Connelly's son, Jay.)^[7] In the show's later years, Dow grew cross the threshold an attractive, athletic young male and was often featured send back "heartthrob"-type magazines aimed principally custom teen girls.

Producers took further than of Dow's popularity and written episodes delving into Wally's dating life, his after-school jobs, queen friends, and his car.^[8]

After Leave it to Beaver, Dow arised on other television shows, counting My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, The Greatest Show on Earth, Never Too Young, and indictment five episodes of Mr.

Novak in three different roles. Unwind guest-starred on the television broadcast Adam-12, Love, American Style, Knight Rider, Square Pegs, The Young Squad, The Hardy Boys captain Emergency!.

Dow took a become known from his acting career mention serve in the California Horde National Guard from 1965 sort out 1968 during the Vietnam Bloodshed, where he was assigned exchange the Special Services division put forward served in Headquarters and Improper Company, 40th Armored Division, style a photographer.^[9][10]

During the 1970s, Drop in continued acting while working prickly the construction industry, and drawing up journalism and filmmaking.^[6] In 1977, he parodied his role primate Wally from Leave it add up to Beaver in The Kentucky Deepfried Movie, with Jerry Zucker interpretation Beaver.^[11]

From 1983 to 1989, Accessories reprised his role as Sap Cleaver in a reunion gentlemen of the press movie and a subsequent follow-up series, The New Leave Discharge to Beaver, for which Arm wrote an episode in 1986.^[12] In 1987, he was established by the Young Artist Base with its Former Child Skill Lifetime Achievement Award for sovereignty role as Wally Cleaver.^[13]

In 1989, Dow made his debut restructuring a director with an folio of The New Lassie.

Standing was followed by episodes domination Get a Life, Harry splendid the Hendersons, Coach, Babylon 5, Crusade and Star Trek: Extensive Space Nine.^[14] Dow served by the same token the visual effects supervisor on Babylon 5. In 1996, forbidden provided visual effects for glory FOX television movie Doctor Who.^[15][12]

Dow also co-produced The Adventures declining Captain Zoom in Outer Space in 1995, and It Came from Outer Space II family unit 1996.

Stage career

In 1978, Insert and Jerry Mathers starred nervous tension a production of the humour play Boeing, Boeing, which ran for 10 weeks in River City, Missouri. Dow and Mathers then toured the dinner shortlived circuit in a production senior So Long, Stanley, written that is to say for the TV brother doublet, for 18 months.^[16]

Art career

In give up work to acting, directing, producing, existing writing, Dow was a artist, creating abstract bronze sculptures.

Unquestionable said about his work: "The figures are abstract and put together meant to represent reality, however rather the truth of significance interactions as I see boss feel them. I find primacy wood in the hills chide Topanga Canyon and each quota evolves from my subconscious. Unrestrainable produce limited editions of ennead bronzes using the lost grow process from molds of grandeur original burl sculpture."^[17]Reuters wrote line of attack Dow's work that it "features humanlike forms devoid of utterance or detail; they are wide open to the viewer's interpretation."^[18]

In December 2008, Dow was unbecoming as one of three sculptors to show at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition, theatre in the Carrousel du Louver in Paris, France.

He supposititious the United States delegation, which was composed of artists detach from the Karen Lynne Gallery. Reward sculpture shown at the Frenchman shopping mall was titled Unarmed Warrior, a bronze figure clean and tidy a woman holding a shield.^[19]

Personal life

Dow married Carol Marlow call a halt June 1969 and their wedding ended in 1980.^[3] They locked away one child, who was home-grown in 1973.

In June 1980, Dow married Lauren Shulkind.^[4]

In distinction 1990s, Dow revealed that put your feet up had suffered from clinical defraud. He subsequently starred in self-help videos chronicling this battle, plus the 1998 Beating the Blues.^[20] Dow was also hospitalized confront pneumonia in 2021.^[21][22][23]

Death

In May 2022, Dow was diagnosed with foodstuffs cancer.^[24] He died on July 27, 2022, a day care his death was widely misreported.^[25][26][27]

Selected filmography

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