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Kenneth Charles Osmond was an American actor
LOS ANGELES – Actor Ken Osmond,
who played the two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TV’s “Leave It to
Beaver,” died Monday, his family said. He was dies 76.
Osmond's son Eric told The Hollywood Reporter that his father died. "He was an incredibly kind
and wonderful father," his son said in a statement Monday. "He had
his family gathered around him when he passed. He was loved and will be very
missed."
No cause of death was given.
Ken Osmond began playing Eddie Haskell as a 14-year-old in 1957.Eddie was a
Friend to Wally Cleaver ( Tony dow ), the older brother of Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver ( jerry mathers ). Eddie
visited the Cleavers’ Perfect upper-middle-class home in nearly half the
series,234 Episodes.
Eddie was a friend to Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow), the older brother of
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers). Eddie visited the
Cleavers' perfect upper-middle-class home in nearly half the series' 234
episodes.
Jerry Mathers tweeted on Monday that
Osmond was a lifelong friend and the best actor on the show.
Osmond
also guested on such popular series as HappyDays, Lassie, Petticoat Junction and The Munsters.
The
actor went on to become an LAPD cop and served for 18 years, according to the
L.A. Police Museum, which remembered him with a post.
In 1983,
Osmond returned to play an adult Eddie Haskell in an updated Leave It to Beaver. Osmond also made a
number of guest appearances on other TV shows such as The Munsters and Happy Days, but he was typecast.
He stayed popular as the actor who played the two-faced suck-up Eddie for
decades thanks to reruns and fan events.In real life, Osmond became a motorcycle officer
with the Los Angeles Police Department.
In
the 1970s, Osmond become the subject of a widely-circulated urban legend: That
he had taken on a new persona as the rock star Alice Cooper. (Cooper, whose
birth name is Vincent Furnier, would later be photographed wearing a t-shirt
reading “No, I’m Not Eddie Haskell”.)
In Leave It To Beaver’s original
1957 pilot, which resurfaced three decades later, the Haskell-type character
was named Frankie and was played by future SNL, The
Simpsons and This
Is Spinal Tap actor Harry Shearer.
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Actor Ken Osmond Dies: Eddie Haskell On ‘Leave It To Beaver’ Dies At 76
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