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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tony Dow, the wholesome actor who portrayed “the perfect big brother” Wally Cleaver on the everlasting TV comedy Leave It to ...

Tony Dow, better known as Wally Cleaver, died Wednesday. As the older brother of Beaver Cleaver in the classic sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” Tony played the part to perfection and became an iconic ...

Leave It to Beaver was all about the fictional Cleaver family. But real kids inspired the iconic TV show’s characters and storylines. How Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers got cast on ‘Leave It to Beaver’ ...

Tony Dow, who played the big brother in ‘Leave It to Beaver,” died Wednesday at 77. NBC Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally Cleaver on the beloved late 1950s television series “Leave it to Beaver,” ...

Signs that a beaver is in residence are evident all around the local pond. There are its teeth marks in the stumps of small trees it cuts down, the slapping sounds of its flat tail striking the water ...

LOS ANGELES — Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77.

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 was ...

Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77. Frank Bilotta, ...