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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Jerry Mathers Biography (1948-)
Born June 2, 1948, in Sioux City, IA; son of a high school principal and a homemaker; brother of Jimmy Mathers (an actor); married and divorced twice.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor
- Birth Details
- June 2, 1948
- Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Television Appearances
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Series
- Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, Leave It to Beaver, CBS, 1957-1958, ABC, 1958-1963
- Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, The New Leave It to Beaver (also knownas Still the Beaver), The Disney Channel, 1985-1986, TBS, 1986-1989
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Movies
- Deputy Henry Thomas Watts, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Dynamite,syndicated, 1981
- Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, Still the Beaver, The Disney Channel, 1983
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Specials
- Guest, Dick Clark's Good ol' Days: From Bobby Sox to Bikinis, NBC,1977
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Getting the Last Laugh, ABC, 1985
- Honorary cochairman, March of Dimes Telethon, 1986
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It's Howdy Doody Time: A Forty-Year Celebration (also known as Howdy Doody's Fortieth Birthday Special and It's Howdy Doody Time), syndicated, 1987
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Lifetime Salutes Mom, 1987
- Himself, Child Stars: Their Story, Arts and Entertainment, 2000
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Episodic
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The Ed Wynn Show, CBS, 1950
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Lux Video Theatre, CBS, 1954
- Pop (the stage doorman), "The Great Escape," Batman, ABC, 1968
- Joe, "Love Thy Neighbor," My Three Sons, CBS, 1970
- Himself, "You Better Shop Around: Part 2," Married ... with Children, Fox, 1991
- Himself, "The Fixer," Conrad Bloom, NBC, 1998
- Lucas Zimmerman, "Friends," Vengeance Unlimited, ABC, 1999
- Mr. Lustig, "Trash TV: Part 1," Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1999
- Himself, "Celebrity Edition," The Weakest Link, NBC, 2001
- Himself (second guest), I've Got a Secret, Oxygen, 2001
- Appeared as a guest panelist in The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, NBC; and as himself in Phenom, ABC. Also appeared in Flying High, CBS; Fourth Network;
Lassie, CBS; and Saturday NightLive (also known as NBC's Saturday Night,
Saturday Night,and SNL), NBC.
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Pilots
- Beaver, "It's a Small World" (also known as "Wally and the Beaver"; pilotfor Leave It to Beaver), Studio '57, syndicated, 1957
- Mr. Sirota, High School, U.S.A., NBC, 1984
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Film Appearances
- David Myer, This Is My Love, RKO Radio Pictures, 1954
- Richard Dodson, Men of the Fighting Lady (also known as PantherSquadron), 1954
- Arnie Rogers, The Trouble with Harry, Paramount, 1955
- Brynie at the age of five, The Seven Little Foys, Paramount, 1955
- Freddie, Bigger Than Life, 1956
- Norman Taylor, That Certain Feeling, Paramount, 1956
- Petey, The Shadow on the Window, Columbia, 1957
- Steve Innes, The Deep Six, Warner Bros., 1958
- Second judge, Back to the Beach, Paramount, 1987
- Police officer at desk, Down the Drain, Moonstone Entertainment, 1990
- Sergeant Dun, Sexual Malice, A-pix Entertainment, 1994
- Dan Larkin, Land of Canaan, Blue Sky Productions, 2001
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Stage Appearances
- Appeared in dinner theatre productions with Tony Dow.
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WRITINGS
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Nonfiction
- (With Herb Fagen) ... And Jerry Mathers As "The Beaver" (autobiography), Berkley Boulevard, 1998
Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES
Periodicals
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Entertainment Weekly, July 10, 1998, p. 68
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People Weekly, summer, 1989
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Publishers Weekly, June 22, 1998, p. 79
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