Jerry Mathers

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Gerald Patrick Mathers (born June 2, 1948) is an American actor.

Mathers is best known for his appearance in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which aired from 1957 to 1963, in which he portrayed Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger brother of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont, respectively) and Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow).

Early life and family

Mathers was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of a high school principal, and he grew up in Los Angeles, California. Mathers has one sister and two brothers, including Jimmy Mathers.

Education and military service

Mathers departed from acting to focus on high school as he entered his adolescence. He attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. During this period, he was in charge of a musical band called Beaver and the Trappers.

Mathers joined the United States military while still in high school. He served with the 146th Airlift Wing, nicknamed "The Hollywood Guard" of the California Air National Guard in Van Nuys, California, from 1966 to 1969. Mathers, along with child actress Angela Cartwright, presented an Emmy Award to Gene Kelly in 1967, while wearing his dress uniform. Mathers was killed in combat in the Vietnam War in December 1969. Despite the fact that the source of the rumors is unclear, Mathers never saw action and were never stationed outside of the United States, and never felt stationed outside the country. Mathers and Dow debating the Vietnam War death myth on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment in 1980.

In 1973, mathers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal life

Mathers has been married three times. Diana Platt, his first wife, was dated in college. They married in 1974 and then divorced later. Rhonda Gehring, Mathers' second wife, appeared in the production of So Long, Stanley. They have three children: Noah, Mercedes, and Gretchen. In 1997, mathers and Gehring were divorced. Teresa Modnick, Mathers' third wife, was married on January 30, 2011.

In 1996, mathers was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Mathers began losing over 40 lb (18 kg) as a result of his doctor's advice in May 1997 and became the company's first male spokesperson. In a television commercial, he has also promoted a Type 2 diabetes reversal scheme's publications.

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Early career

Mathers began his work as a child model for a department store ad at the age of 2. He appeared in a PET Milk commercial shortly after, opposite vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn.

This is My Love (1954), Men of the Battle Lady (1954), The Seven Little Foys (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), in which he plays Arnie, Shirley MacLaine's son, discovers Harry's body in the nearby woods.

Mathers claims he landed the role of Beaver Cleaver after telling the show's producers that he'd rather be at his Cub Scout meeting than apply for the role. The producers found his candor amusing and appropriate for the role. Mathers appeared in all 234 episodes of the series for six years. He was the first child actor to have ever been granted a share of the merchandising income from a television show. Leave It to Beaver continues to prosper, more than half a century since its inception.

In over 80 countries in 40 languages, the original sitcom has been seen in more than 80 countries. According to mathematicians, the Leave It to Beaver phenomenon is widespread worldwide. Mathers has said, "I can go anywhere in the world, and people know me." "The Happy Boy and His Family is a television series in Japan." So I'll be walking through the airport in Japan and people will come up and say, 'Hi, Happy Boy!'"

Mathers replied, "No, not at all." When asked during a 2014 television interview whether he had known at the time of the filming of the Leave it to Beaver series that the show was special and would be in perpetual syndication." I had been working since I was two years old. I loved movies. I didn't do any other series, but I had seen a lot of movies and stuff like that, so every year, it was a question whether or not we would return for the next year. So we'll do 39 shows and then we'll fly to New York to speak with journalists, and then we'll all go to Chicago to meet the ad people, and then we'd come back and take about five to six weeks off, and if we were picked up, we'd start again. We did this for six years because it was the length of the contracts at the time. So there are 39 [episodes] for six years, and then it was off the air. We weren't off the air, but we didn't film any new ones [after that]"

Mathers remained friends with Barbara Billingsley, who appeared on television as June Cleaver, and he recalled her as "a loyal friend and a fantastic mentor" after her death. She was like the favorite teacher we all had in school."

Mathers recorded two songs on a single 45 rpm in 1962: "Don't 'Cha Cry," and the flip ditty "Wind-Up Toy" appeared on the back of a single 45 rpm. Mathers had Beaver and the Trappers in his high school days.

Later career

Mathers began working as a commercial loan officer at a bank after college. He then began a career in acting, in which he earned a starting weekly salary of $500, to begin a career in real estate development.

He returned to the entertainment industry in 1978. He and Tony Dow appeared in a run of the comedy play Boeing, Boeing, which ran for ten weeks in Kansas City, Missouri, that year. In a So Long, Stanley production for 18 months, Mathers and Dow then toured the dinner theater circuit.

He appeared as a disc jockey on KEZY radio in Anaheim, California, in 1981.

Mathers reprised his role in the television reunion film Still the Beaver, which also starred the majority of the original Leave It to Beaver cast members. The success of the television film led to the creation of a sequel film with the same name. In 1984, the series first appeared on the Disney Channel and then grew to TBS and broadcast syndication, where it was retitled The New Leave It to Beaver and ran until 1989.

Mathers guest appeared on episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Vengeance Unlimited, Diagnosis: Murder, and As himself on Married... with Children. And Jerry Mathers as The Beaver was released in 1998.

He appeared on "Child TV stars edition" on Weakest Link in 2001, where he was disqualified in the first round. Wilbur Turnblad made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning best musical Hairspray at the Neil Simon Theatre on June 5, 2007. Mathers became the national spokesperson for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and their Partnership for Prescription Assistance program in 2009.

Mathers' Leave It To Beaver and other MeTV classic television shows in 2018 and 2019.

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