Where Are They Now - Friday, May 18, 2018
Hello fans,
A reader that goes by the name of Bruce would like to know what's going on with The Beav, Jerry Mathers! Excellent choice, Mr. Bruce!
Whatever happened to Jerry Mathers, the actor who played Beaver Cleaver on the classic TV sitcom Leave it to Beaver?
He was just a kid when he played the role of Beaver, but he is all grown up now! Find out what he's been up to recently...
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Yves Montand: French actor with a long, well-respected career, appeared in "Grand Prix", "Z", "Jean de Florette" and many other movies
Michele Lee: Starred in the TV series "Knots Landing", also appeared in "The Love Bug" and other movies
William Bendix: Starred as Chester Riley in the radio series, TV series and movie "The Life of Riley", known for his signature line "What a revoltin' development THIS is!", appeared in the movies "Lifeboat" and "The Glass Key"
(Answer at the bottom)
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Jerry Mathers
Learn More About Jerry Mathers on Celebrity Nooz
BIRTH DATE: June 2, 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA
BIRTH NAME: Gerald P. Mathers
NICKNAME: The Beav, The Beaver
CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his role as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the series Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963).
FAMILY LIFE: Married to his first wife Diana Platt from September of 1974 to December of 1982. He has three children with his second wife Rhonda: Noah (b. 1978), Mercedes (1982) and Gretchen (1985). He has been married to Teresa Modnick since 2011.
INFO: His acting career began at the age of 2 when he appeared in a commercial for PET Milk. Some of his early films include This is My Love (1954), Men of the Fighting Lady (1954), The Seven Little Foys (1955) and The Trouble with Harry (1955).
He won the role of Beaver Cleaver in 1957 when he told the show's producers he'd rather be at his Cub Scout meeting than auditioning for the part. He became well-known for his role as the younger son of June and Ward Cleaver (played by Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont), and the brother of Wally Cleaver (played by Tony Dow).
When Mathers entered his teenage years, he left acting to focus on high school. He later returned to star in a handful of other films such as Playing Patti (1998) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002).
TRIVIA: Graduated from Notre Dame High School, in Sherman Oaks, California, in 1967.
Attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a BA degree in philosophy in 1973.
His younger brother Jimmy Mathers was also a television actor who had spots on Bewitched, The Munsters, My Three Sons and Adam-12.
In the late 1990s, he owned and operated a sideline catering company in Santa Clarita, California called, "Cleaver's Catering."
Was the first child actor ever to make a deal to get a percentage of the merchandising revenue from a television show.
Played in a rock band called Beaver and the Trappers.
Earned his BA in Philosophy and worked in banking and real estate in 1970s.
was a member of the Air National Guard (1966-69).
WHERE IS HE NOW: Most recently did an interview entitled 'Jerry Mathers aka Beaver and the Spaz'. And in the Fall of 2017 'Leave it to Beaver' celebrated its 60th Anniversary.
CREDITS:
2015 Lucky Day (Short)...Ted
2015 Dad Dudes (TV Series)...William
- Pilot (2015) ... William
2014/I The Hitchhiker (Short)...Hitchhiker
2011 Diabetic Nerve Pain (TV Movie)...Spokesperson-Himself
2008 Will to Power...Mr. Simpson
2006 The War at Home (TV Series)...Principal
- Back to School (2006) ... Principal
2005 Angels with Angles...Tobacconist #1
2002 Better Luck Tomorrow...Biology Teacher
1999 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)...Mr. Lustig
- Trash TV: Part 1
1999 Vengeance Unlimited (TV Series)...Lucas Zimmerman
- Friends
1998 Playing Patti
1994 The Other Man...Sergeant Dun
1991 Parker Lewis Can't Lose (TV Series)...Theodore Musso
- Jerry: Portrait of a Video Junkie
1990 Down the Drain...Policeman (desk)
1983-1989 The New Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)...Theodore Cleaver
All 101 episodes
1987 Back to the Beach...Judge #2
1987 The Love Boat (TV Series)...Beaver Cleaver
- Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?
1984 High School U.S.A. (TV Movie)...Mr. Sirota
1983 Still the Beaver (TV Movie)...Theodore Cleaver
1981 The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite (TV Movie)...Deputy Henry Thomas Watts
1978 Flying High (TV Series)...Chuck Wallace
- Fear of Cheesecake
1975 Holmes and Walston (TV Movie)
Darrel Walston
1970 My Three Sons (TV Series)...Joe Lawrie
- Love Thy Neighbor
1968 Lassie (TV Series)...Ken Hines
- Lassie and the 4-H Boys
1968 Batman (TV Series)...Pop, the Stage Doorman
- The Great Escape
1966 Insight (TV Series)
- The Boy and the Bomb (1966)
1957-1963 Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)...Theodore Cleaver
All 235 episodes
1958 The Deep Six...Steve Innes (uncredited)
1957 Studio 57 (TV Series)
- It's a Small World (1957)
1957 The Shadow on the Window...Petey Atlas
1956 Warner Brothers Presents (TV Series)
- Strange World
1956 Bigger Than Life...Freddie (uncredited)
1956 That Certain Feeling...Norman Taylor
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)...Peter at 5
- It's a Most Unusual Day
1955 Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
- Santa Is No Saint
1955 The Trouble with Harry...Arnie Rogers
1955 The Seven Little Foys...Bryan Lincoln Foy - Age 5 (uncredited)
1955 General Electric Theater (TV Series)...Tommy
- Into the Night
1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)...Little Boy
- The Great McGinty
1954 This Is My Love...David Myer
1954 Men of the Fighting Lady...Richard Dodson (uncredited)
1953 I Love Lucy (TV Series)...Dream Little Ricky
- Ricky's Old Girlfriend
1952 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV Series)...Trick Or Treating Child
- Halloween Party
1952 Son of Paleface...Child at Finale (uncredited)
To see Then & Now pictures of Jerry Mathers, visit: Celebrity Nooz
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Yves Montand - DEAD (Heart Attack)
Born: 10/13/1921 Died: 11/09/1991
Michele Lee - ALIVE
Born: 06/24/1942
William Bendix - DEAD (Pneumonia)
Born: 01/14/1906 Died: 12/14/1964
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
5/15
Balakumaran, 71, Tamil writer.
Hopeful Christian, 92, Australian-born New Zealand evangelist and convicted sex offender, founder of Gloriavale Christian Community, cancer.
Gogon (id), 58, Indonesian comedian.
Dokdin Kanyamarn, 94, Thai film director and actor.
Jlloyd Samuel, 37, Trinidadian footballer (Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers), traffic collision.
5/14
Kalasala Babu, 68, Indian actor, complications from a stroke.
T. P. Burns, 94, Irish jockey.
Mike Drass, 57, American football coach (Wesley College), heart attack.
Elaine Edwards, 89, American politician, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (1972); First Lady of Louisiana (1972-1980, 1984-1988).
Abdulrahim Abby Farah, 98, Welsh-born Somali diplomat and politician.
Roberto Farias, 86, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (Pra Frente, Brasil), cancer.
María Elena Meneses Rocha, 56, Mexican journalist, technologist and academic (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education).
Kamel Omrane, 67, Tunisian politician and academic, Minister of Religious Affairs (2010-2011).
Frank Quilici, 79, American baseball player, manager and commentator (Minnesota Twins).
Mani Shah, 51, Nepalese footballer.
E. C. George Sudarshan, 86, Indian theoretical physicist and professor (University of Texas at Austin).
William Vance, 82, Belgian comics artist (XIII, Bob Morane, Bruno Brazil), Parkinson's disease.
Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and journalist (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff).
Jozef J. Zwislocki (pl), 96, Polish-born American neuroscientist.
5/13
Edgardo Angara, 83, Filipino politician, Senator (1987-1998, 2001-2013), Senate President (1993-1995) and Minister of Agriculture (1991-2005), heart attack.
Rogelio Blaín, 73, Cuban actor (Lucía).
Glenn Branca, 69, American avant-garde composer (The Ascension) and guitarist (Theoretical Girls), throat cancer.
Epitácio Cafeteira, 93, Brazilian politician, Senator from Maranhão (2007-2015) and Governor (1987-1990).
Beth Chatto, 94, British gardener (Beth Chatto Gardens) and writer.
Clare Drake, 89, Canadian ice hockey coach (Alberta Golden Bears, Edmonton Oilers).
Donald T. Farley, 84, American physicist and engineering scientist.
Steve Hogan, 69, American politician, Mayor of Aurora, Colorado (since 2011), member of the Colorado House of Representatives (1975-1976), cancer.
Hasan Junaid, 56, Pakistani journalist, brain haemorrhage.
Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-American actress (Superman, The Amityville Horror, Black Christmas) and activist.
Chuck Knox, 86, American football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks), dementia.
Baadur Tsuladze, 83, Georgian actor, film director, writer and broadcaster.
Lucien Villa, 95, French politician, Deputy (1967-1968, 1973-1981).
Gareth Powell Williams, 63, British rugby union player (Wales, British and Irish Lions).
5/12
Mansoor Ahmed, 50, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1992), heart failure.
Will Alsop, 70, British architect, Stirling Prize winner (2000).
Billy Brewer, 82, American football player and coach (Ole Miss, Southeastern Louisiana, Louisiana Tech).
Vaughn J. Featherstone, 87, American Mormon general authority.
Tessa Jowell, Baroness Jowell, 70, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2001-2007), MP (1992-2015) and peer (since 2015), brain cancer.
Antonio Mercero, 82, Spanish film and television director (Verano azul, Farmacia de guardia, La cabina), Emmy (1972) and Goya (2010) winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Dennis Nilsen, 72, Scottish serial killer.
Sam Nzima, 83, South African photographer.
Jack Sures, 83, Canadian artist.
Charles Thake, 90, Maltese actor (Agora, Treasure in Malta).
Kevin Tierney, 67, Canadian film producer (Bon Cop, Bad Cop, The Trotsky) and journalist (Montreal Gazette), cancer.
Donald Gary Young, 68, American business executive, founder of Young Living, complications from multiple strokes.
5/11
Mikhail Alperin, 61, Ukrainian-born Norwegian jazz pianist.
Bessie Camm, 113, British supercentenarian, oldest verified person in the United Kingdom.
Anita Das, 57, Indian actress, heart attack.
Clare Droesch, 36, American basketball player, cancer.
Gérard Genette, 87, French literary theorist.
Giraddi Govindraj, 79, Indian professor and poet, heart attack.
Hugo Guerra, 52, Uruguayan footballer (national team, Boca Juniors, Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata), heart attack.
Tom E. Lewis, 59, Australian Yan-nha?u actor (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Red Hill), heart attack.
Yvan Mainini (fr), 73, French basketball referee and executive, president of FIBA (2010-2014).
Matt Marks, 38, American composer and musician (Alarm Will Sound).
Peter Mayer, 82, American publisher (The Overlook Press, Penguin Books), complications from amyloidosis.
Jose Francisco Oliveros, 71, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malolos (since 2004).
Julio Pardo Padrós (es), 66, Spanish sports executive, President of RCD Espanyol (1989-1993).
Himanshu Roy, 54, Indian police officer, Director General of Police for Maharashtra, suicide by gunshot.
Ulla Sallert, 95, Swedish actress and singer.
Viktor Shamburkin, 86, Russian sport shooter, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
5/10
Liz Chase, 68, Zimbabwean field hockey player, Olympic champion (1980).
David Goodall, 104, English-born Australian botanist, assisted suicide by lethal injection.
Ken Hodgkisson, 85, English footballer (Walsall, West Bromwich Albion).
Scott Hutchison, 36, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist (Frightened Rabbit, Mastersystem, The Fruit Tree Foundation).
Kevin Kamenetz, 60, American politician, Baltimore County Executive (since 2010), cardiac arrest.
Graham Lovett, 70, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
Alfonso Lovo Cordero, 91, Nicaraguan politician, member of the Liberal-Conservative Junta (1972-1974).
R. Neelakantan, 83, Indian actor.
Adam Parfrey, 61, American writer, editor and publisher (Feral House).
Joseph Paul, 81, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
Maynard Troyer, 79, American race car driver and race chassis engineer.
Evgeni Vasiukov, 85, Russian chess Grandmaster.