In the 80s he also appeared in “Happy Days,” the series set in the “Leave It to Beaver” era, and the TV movie “High School USA. He would return to TV in 1983, when “Leave It to Beaver” reruns were having a heyday, appearing in the TV movie “Still the Beaver.”Ī revival series, “The New Leave It to Beaver,” came next, with Osmond reprising the role of Haskell alongside Dow and Mathers from 1983 to 1989. Osmond and wife Sandra Purdy had two sons, Eric and Christian. In 1968, I bought my first house, in ’69 I got married, and we were going to start a family and I needed a job, so I went out and signed up for the LAPD.”ĭow, who was a lifelong friend of Osmond’s said “His motorcycle cop stories are terrific.” It’s a death sentence,” Osmond told radio host Stu Stoshak in a 2008 interview on “Stu’s Show.” “I’m not complaining because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. He would give up acting and become a Los Angeles police officer. Osmond returned to making guest appearances on TV shows including “The Munsters” in the late 1960s, but found he was so identified with Eddie Haskell that it was hard to land roles. The role of Eddie in season one of “Leave It to Beaver” was also supposed to be a one-off guest appearance, but the show’s producers and its audience found him so memorable he became a regular, appearing in nearly 100 of the show’s 234 episodes. I grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma just 61 miles from Joe Exotic. He got his first role at age 4, working in commercials and as a film extra, and got his first speaking role at 9, appearing mostly in small guest parts on TV series. Eddie Haskell joins 97.3 The Eagle On-Air Weekdays from 3-7pm. Osmond was born in Glendale, California, to a carpenter father and a mother who wanted to get him into acting. “He was one of the few guys on the show who really played a character and created it,” Dow added, chuckling as he mimicked the evil laugh Osmond would unleash when his character was launching one nefarious scheme or another and trying to pull Wally and his younger brother Beaver into it. “He was a terrific guy, he was a terrific actor and his character is probably one that will last forever,” Dow told The Associated Press on Monday. He constantly kissed up to adults and kicked down at his peers, usually in the same scene, and was the closest thing the wholesome show had to a villain. (Photo Wikipedia) To a generation now mourning the passing of actor Ken Osmond aka, Eddie Haskell the best moments on TV’s Leave It to Beaver always involved the mischievous Eddie trying to sneak a fast. Eddie was the best friend of Tony Dow’s Wally Cleaver, big brother to Jerry Mathers’ Beaver Cleaver. From 1957 to 1963, actor Ken Osmond, who passed away earlier this week, portrayed the mischievous and subversive Eddie Haskell.
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