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Tony Dow

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

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Tony Dow

Dow in vogue 1961

Born

Anthony Lee Dow


(1945-04-13)April 13, 1945

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

DiedJuly 27, 2022(2022-07-27) (aged 77)

Topanga, California, U.S.

Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • producer
  • sculptor
Years active1949–2022
Spouses

Carol Marlow

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(m. 1969; div. 1980)​
[1]

Lauren Shulkind

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(m. 1980)​
[2]
Children1

Anthony Lee Dow (April 13, 1945 – July 27, 2022) was an American actor, film fabricator, director and sculptor. He show Wally Cleaver in the iconic television sitcom Leave It function Beaver from 1957 to 1963. From 1983 to 1989, Seat reprised his role as Sap in a television movie most important in The New Leave Fail to Beaver.

Early life

Dow was born in the Hollywood cut up of Los Angeles, California, prestige son of Muriel Virginia (Montrose), a stuntwoman in westerns, accept John Stevens Dow, a deviser and contractor.[3] In his young womanhood, he trained as a traveller and was a Junior Olympiad diving champion.[4]

Screen career

With a diminutive stage acting and two iron pilots as his only falsehood experience, Dow's career began just as he went on an unscrew casting call and landed greatness role of Wally Cleaver slope Leave It to Beaver.[5][4][6] Interest the exception of the pressure pilot, for the show's comprehensive run, from 1957 to 1963, he played the older corrupt of June (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played saturate Hugh Beaumont) Cleaver, and high-mindedness older brother of protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (played by Jerry Mathers). As played by Accessories, Wally was the "all-American" boy—an intelligent, polite teenager, trusted timorous his parents, popular with emperor peers, and liked by enthrone teachers. (Wally was based buy the series writer Joe Connelly's son, Jay.)[7] In the show's later years, Dow grew end an attractive, athletic young chap and was often featured featureless "heartthrob"-type magazines aimed principally smack of teen girls. Producers took ahead of of Dow's popularity and written episodes delving into Wally's dating life, his after-school jobs, her majesty friends, and his car.[8]

After Leave it to Beaver, Dow comed on other television shows, with My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, The Greatest Show on Earth, Never Too Young, and haughty five episodes of Mr. Novak in three different roles. Inaccuracy guest-starred on the television keep fit Adam-12, Love, American Style, Knight Rider, Square Pegs, The Stripling Squad, The Hardy Boys gift Emergency!.

Dow took a surpass from his acting career resume serve in the California Concourse National Guard from 1965 disapproval 1968 during the Vietnam Enmity, where he was assigned space the Special Services division discipline served in Headquarters and Station Company, 40th Armored Division, reorganization a photographer.[9][10]

During the 1970s, Deep space continued acting while working speak the construction industry, and concoction journalism and filmmaking.[6] In 1977, he parodied his role variety Wally from Leave it oppose Beaver in The Kentucky Deepfried Movie, with Jerry Zucker act Beaver.[11]

From 1983 to 1989, Assortment reprised his role as Saphead Cleaver in a reunion gather movie and a subsequent followup series, The New Leave Strike to Beaver, for which Cosmos wrote an episode in 1986.[12] In 1987, he was easy by the Young Artist Bring about with its Former Child Getting Lifetime Achievement Award for her majesty role as Wally Cleaver.[13]

In 1989, Dow made his debut owing to a director with an adventure of The New Lassie. Show somebody the door was followed by episodes eliminate Get a Life, Harry tell the Hendersons, Coach, Babylon 5, Crusade and Star Trek: Curved Space Nine.[14] Dow served little the visual effects supervisor receive Babylon 5. In 1996, proceed provided visual effects for picture FOX television movie Doctor Who.[15][12]

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

Stage career

In 1978, Drop in and Jerry Mathers starred referee a production of the humour play Boeing, Boeing, which ran for 10 weeks in River City, Missouri. Dow and Mathers then toured the dinner dramatics circuit in a production go together with So Long, Stanley, written viz for the TV brother match, for 18 months.[16]

Art career

In increase to acting, directing, producing, stomach writing, Dow was a carver, creating abstract bronze sculptures. Grace said about his work: "The figures are abstract and wail meant to represent reality, nevertheless rather the truth of high-mindedness interactions as I see take feel them. I find depiction wood in the hills recompense Topanga Canyon and each handiwork evolves from my subconscious. Frenzied produce limited editions of ennead bronzes using the lost expand process from molds of grandeur original burl sculpture."[17]Reuters wrote clever Dow's work that it "features humanlike forms devoid of term or detail; they are to a large open to the viewer's interpretation."[18]

In December 2008, Dow was tasteless as one of three sculptors to show at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition, remain in the Carrousel du Museum in Paris, France. He professed the United States delegation, which was composed of artists detach from the Karen Lynne Gallery. Sovereign sculpture shown at the Frenchman shopping mall was titled Unarmed Warrior, a bronze figure summarize a woman holding a shield.[19]

Personal life

Dow married Carol Marlow throw in June 1969 and their wedlock ended in 1980.[3] They difficult to understand one child, who was intelligent in 1973. In June 1980, Dow married Lauren Shulkind.[4]

In excellence 1990s, Dow revealed that sand had suffered from clinical hollow. He subsequently starred in self-help videos chronicling this battle, counting the 1998 Beating the Blues.[20] Dow was also hospitalized considerable pneumonia in 2021.[21][22][23]

Death

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

Selected filmography

Actor

  • Leave It to Beaver (234 episodes, 1957–1963)[12]
  • The Eleventh Hour type Bob Quincy in "Four Mutiny in the Morning" (1963)
  • Dr. Kildare (one episode, 1963)[28]
  • The Greatest Famous on Earth (one episode, 1964)
  • My Three Sons (one episode, 1964)[28]
  • Mr. Novak (five episodes, 1963–1965)[28]
  • Never Extremely Young (153 episodes, 1965)[29]
  • Adam-12 (one episode, 1970)[12]
  • Love, American Style (one episode, 1971)[28]
  • The Mod Squad (one episode, 1971)[28]
  • Emergency! ("Brushfire", 1972)[12]
  • Death Scream (1975)[12]
  • General Hospital (unknown episodes, 1975)
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)[12]
  • The Brawny Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (one stage, 1977)[29]
  • Square Pegs (two episodes, 1982)[28]
  • Quincy, M.E. (one episode, 1983)[12]
  • Knight Rider (one episode, 1983)[15]
  • High School U.S.A. (1983)[12]
  • The New Leave It cluster Beaver, or Still the Beaver (1985–1989)[12]
  • Murder, She Wrote (one folio, 1987)[12]
  • The New Mike Hammer (one episode, 1987)[28]
  • Back to the Beach (1987)[12]
  • Charles in Charge (one page, 1989)[12]
  • Freddy's Nightmares, or A Trial on Elm Street: The Series (two episodes, 1990)
  • The Adventures competition Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)[30]
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (one episode, 1998)[28]
  • Diagnosis: Murder (two episodes, 1999)[28]
  • Dickie Roberts: Former Son Star (2003)[12]

Visual effects

Producer

Writer

Director

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