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His autobiography, Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It To Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life, was published in 1997. [2] Bank died of cancer on April 13, 2013, in Rancho Mirage, California, one day after his 71st birthday. He was survived by his third wife, Rebecca, four daughters, and five grandchildren. [3]
Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford is a fictional character in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show aired from October 4, 1957 to June 20, 1963. Lumpy is a bit of a bully and, with Eddie Haskell, is one of Wally Cleaver's friends. Lumpy was portrayed in the original series by Frank Bank.
Fred is the head of the "Rancho Rutherford" household and is married to Geraldine/Gwendolyn. He is balding, and self-aggrandizing, the father of a son named Clarence (nicknamed "Lumpy" by everyone in town), played by Frank Bank, and a daughter named Violet, played by Wendy Winkelman and later by Veronica Cartwright.
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Tony Dow, the actor and director best known for playing the stalwart older brother Wally Cleaver to Jerry Mathers’ Beaver in the iconic series “Leave It to Beaver,” died Wednesday after it ...
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The actor died Wednesday in hospice care. Jerry Mathers is paying tribute to his Leave It to Beaver co-star, remembering Tony Dow as “not only my brother on tv, but in many ways in life as well ...
With a little stage acting and two television pilots as his only acting experience, Dow's career began when he went on an open casting call and landed the role of Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver. [5] [4] [6] With the exception of the television pilot, for the show's entire run, from 1957 to 1963, he played the older son of June (played by ...