Jerry Mathers

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Jerry Mathers 2007
Jerry Mathers 2007

Jerry Mathers (born June 2, 1948 in Sioux City , Iowa ) is an American actor and former child actor .

Life

Mathers was featured in a television commercial when he was two . In 1952 he had his acting debut as a child actor in the western comedy Pale Face Junior alongside Bob Hope and Jane Russell . He appeared in a number of feature films throughout the 1950s , including as the son of Shirley MacLaine's character in Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy Always Trouble with Harry .

In 1957 he got the lead role of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the sitcom You Should Be Grown Up, which he played in 235 episodes until 1963. Through this role he gained enormous popularity not only in the United States; the series became a huge success in many other countries as well. During this high point of his career, he released the single Wind up Toy in 1962 , which was not particularly successful. After graduating from high school , he served in the Air National Guard from 1966 to 1969 during the Vietnam War . The US media briefly circulated a false death report when a soldier of the same name had fallen. He then studied at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1974 he received his bachelor's degree in philosophy . He worked in the banking and real estate business for the rest of the 1970s.

After you had to be an adult, he was rarely seen in front of the camera in the 1960s and 1970s, including guest appearances in the television series Lassie and Batman . In 1983, a television film was produced under the name Still the Beaver - a sequel to Growing up one should be . In addition to Mathers, Barbara Billingsley , Tony Dow , Ken Osmond and Frank Bank appeared from the original cast. Shortly thereafter, a new sitcom was produced under the name My Dear Biber , until 1989 Mathers appeared in 102 further episodes as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver . In 2007 he made his Broadway debut as Wilbur Turnblad in the musical Hairspray .

Mathers made in the United States, among others, advertising for General Electric , AOL , Coca-Cola and Jim Beam , temporarily recruited Kellogg's with his photo on cornflakes packings. His first two marriages were divorced and the second marriage had three children. He has been married for the third time since 2011. He was diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: Pale Face Junior ( Son of Paleface )
  • 1953: I Love Lucy (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1954: Daring Landing ( Men of the Fighting Lady )
  • 1955: Komödiantenkinder ( The Seven Little Foys )
  • 1955: The Trouble with Harry ( The Trouble with Harry )
  • 1956: I'm Marrying My Wife ( That Certain Feeling )
  • 1956: A Fistful of Hope ( Bigger Than Life )
  • 1957–1963: One should be an adult ( Leave It to Beaver ; TV series, 235 episodes)
  • 1958: Breakthrough at Dawn ( The Deep Six )
  • 1968: Lassie (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1968: Batman (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1970: My Three Sons ( My Three Sons ; TV Series, 1 episode)
  • 1978: The dearest stewardesses ( Flying High ; TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1983: High School USA (TV movie)
  • 1983–1989: My dear beaver ( Still the Beaver ; TV series, 101 episodes)
  • 1987: Love Boat (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1990: Hot goods ( Down the Drain )
  • 1991: A Terribly Nice Family ( Married ... with Children ; TV series, episode The Millionth Visitor II )
  • 1991: Parker Lewis - The Cool One from School ( Parker Lewis Can't Lose ; TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1999: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder ; TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2006: Family dispute de Luxe ( The War at Home ; TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2008: Will to Power - The Perfect Murder (Will to Power)
  • 2015: Lucky Day (short film)

Web links

Commons : Jerry Mathers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Article in The New York Times (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mathers, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathers, Gerald Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sioux City , Iowa