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Joseph Sherrard Kearns (February 12, 1907 – February 17, 1962) was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as George Wilson ("Mr. Wilson") on the CBS television series Dennis the Menace from 1959 until his death in 1962. [1]
The Wilsons had no children. Martha Wilson was written out of the series after Joseph Kearns' death (90 episodes, 1959–62). Margaret Wade (Jeannie Russell) is a snooty but good girl with a crush on Dennis (38 episodes, 1959–63). Tommy Anderson (Billy Booth) is Dennis' closest friend (111 episodes, 1959–63).
In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [17] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was, instead, assigned to ...
Sylvia Field (born Harriet Louisa Johnson; February 14, 1901 – July 31, 1998) was an American actress whose career encompassed performances on stage, screen, and TV.She was best known for playing the understanding Mrs. Martha Wilson (Mr. Wilson's wife) on the television sitcom Dennis the Menace on CBS from 1959 to 1962.
[7] [16] [27] This, combined with the unexpected death of the actor who played Dennis' foil, Mr. Wilson (Joseph Kearns), near the end of season three, had changed the dynamic of the show. [ 5 ] [ 16 ] [ 28 ] During his interview with Filmfax , North recalled: "Between the pressures of the business and Joe's dying, I became very serious, very ...
Kearns had a strong background in radio, where he made his first appearances on the Burns and Allen show. [35] On both radio and television, Kearns appeared on Jack Benny's programs, including in the role of a guard at Jack Benny's (fictitious) vault beneath Beverly Hills – the running gag being that the guard had been protecting Benny's ...
Billingsley and Adams "It's a Small World" is the pilot episode from the American television series Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963). The pilot (originally proposed as Wally and The Beaver) was first televised April 23, 1957, on the syndicated anthology series, Studio 57, without a laugh track nor the series' well known theme song, "The Toy Parade". [1]
Gale Gordon (born Charles Thomas Aldrich Jr., February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom The Lucy Show.