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Wallace "Wally" Cleaver is a fictional character in the iconic American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver.Wally is the thirteen-year-old son of archetypal 1950s suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old ("almost eight") title character, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.
From 1983 to 1989, Dow reprised his role as Wally Cleaver in a reunion television movie and a subsequent sequel series, The New Leave It to Beaver, for which Dow wrote an episode in 1986. [12] In 1987, he was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award for his role as Wally Cleaver. [13]
The show is built around young Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) and the trouble he gets himself into while navigating an often-incomprehensible, sometimes illogical world. Supposedly, when he was a baby, his older brother Wallace " Wally " ( Tony Dow ) mispronounced "Theodore" as "Tweedor".
Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally Cleaver on the beloved late 1950s television series “Leave it to Beaver,” died Wednesday at 77. Wally Cleaver was supportive, understanding and sensitive ...
Dow was just 12 years old in 1957, when he became one of the most recognizable faces in America as Wally Cleaver in "Leave It to Beaver." He had just about zero acting experience, but producers ...
"Leave It to Beaver," which aired from 1957 to 1963, centered on the typical idealized family of the time as it followed the adventures of mischievous young Beaver; his practical brother, Wally ...
The series aired until 1989. In 1997, the feature film Leave It to Beaver was released starring young Cameron Finley as the Beaver. In Still the Beaver and The New Leave It to Beaver, the Beaver is divorced from Kimberly (played by Joanna Gleason); the couple had two sons; Kip and Oliver (whose nickname is Ollie). Kimberly and the Beaver had ...
Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally Cleaver on the beloved late 1950s television series “Leave it to Beaver,” died Wednesday at 77. Wally Cleaver was an encouraging, understanding and ...