The star is best known for playing Wally Cleaver on the American sitcom Leave It to Beaver, Tony Dow, is not dead at 77. The actor has been battling cancer and has experienced complications associated with the disease. “Yes he is still alive but in his last hours. Under hospice care,” Dow’s son Christopher said. Tony Dow has more than thirty acting credits over a six-decade career. The series that made him famous revolved around a middle-class suburban family. It followed the adventures of the youngest son Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver.” Jerry Mathers played Beaver. It ran for 230 episodes from 1957 to 1963. The American sitcom Leave it to Beaver star Tony Dow became an icon from his role in the series and is not dead. He is currently under hospice care as his condition has declined. He is in his “last hours” according to his son.
Leave It to Beaver was Tony Dow’s First Ever Role
Tony Dow got the role, his first role, as Wally Cleaver after a casting call. He appeared in 234 episodes of the famed series. Despite the actor’s management team reporting his death, the actor is not dead. Dow reprised his role as Wally Cleaver in The New Leave It to Beaver. The actor is not dead despite earlier reports, just declining in health. He had many appearances on the series My Three Sons, The Mod Squad, Emergency!, and The Hardy Boys. He has moonlighted in sculpting on top of his acting career. The actor has struggled with clinical depression throughout his life. Dow’s condition is declining but he isn’t dead. His character from Leave It to Beaver will forever be part of television history. The American sitcom star played a character that was widely recognized and referenced in pop culture. The series has comics, games, and books about it.
He wrote an episode of The New Leave It to Beaver and produced the film The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space. Tony Dow is married to Lauren Shulkind, and has a son Christopher from his first marriage to Carol Marlow.
