Tony Dow

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Tony Lee Dow (born April 13, 1945) is an American film producer, director, sculptor, and television actor.

He is best known for his appearance in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which ran in primetime from 1957 to 1963.

Dow performed Wally Cleaver, the elder son of June (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played by Hugh Beaumont) Cleaver (played by Jerry Mathers), as well as the brother of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.

Early life

Dow was born in Los Angeles, California, and the son of Muriel Virginia (Montrose), a stuntwoman in westerns, and John Stevens Dow, a builder and contractor, was born. He trained as a swimmer and was a Junior Olympics diving champion in his youth.

Personal life

Dow married Carol Marlow in June 1969, but their union was ended in 1980. They had just one child, who was born in 1973. Dow married Lauren Shulkind in June 1980.

Dow explained in the 1990s that he suffered from clinical depression. He appeared in self-help videos chronicling the war, including the 1998 Beating the Blues. In 2021, Dow was also hospitalized with pneumonia.

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Screen career

Dow's acting debut began with little stage acting and two television pilots as his first acting experience. He joined the cast of Leave It to Beaver and was cast as Wally Cleaver. With the exception of the television pilot, he played Cleaver and Ward (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played by Hugh Beaumont) and Laurel's older brother Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver) from 1957 to 1963. Wally was the "all-American" boy, an educated, polite teenager, trusted by his parents, popular with his peers, and liked by his teachers as portrayed by Dow. (Which was based on Joe Connelly's son, Jay, in a way.) Dow grew into an attractive, athletic young man in the show's later years, and was often included in "heartthrob"-type magazines aimed mostly at teen girls. Producers profited from Dow's ubiquity and scripted episodes delving into Wally's dating life, his after-school, his family, and his vehicle.

Dow appeared on several television shows, including My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, The Greatest Show on Earth, Never Too Young, and five episodes of Mr. Novak in three separate roles after Leave it to Beaver. He served in the United States National Guard from 1965 to 1968, putting an end to his acting career. On his return to acting, he appeared on Adam-12, Love, American Style, Knight Rider, Square Pegs, The Mod Squad, The Hardy Boys, and Emergency.

Dow continued acting while serving in construction, reading journalism and filmmaking throughout the 1970s. In 1977, he parodied his role as Wally from Leave it to Beaver in The Kentucky Fried Film, with Jerry Zucker playing Beaver.

Dow resurfaced in 1983 to 1989 in a revival television film and a subsequent sequel series named The New Leave It to Beaver, for which Dow wrote an episode in 1986. In 1987, the Young Artist Foundation presented him with the Young Artist Foundation's Most Popular Child Achievement Award for his work as Wally Cleaver.

Dow made his debut as a director with a new Lassie episode in 1989. It was followed by episodes of Get a Life, Harry and the Hendersons, Beck, Babylon 5, Crusade, and Deep Space Nine. Dow served as the Babylon 5's visual effects manager. He created special effects for Doctor Who, a FOX television show.

In 1995, Dow co-produced The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, and in 1996, Outer Space II's It Came.

Art career

Dow was also a writer, designing, constructing, and writing, in addition to acting, directing, producing, and writing. "The figures are abstract and not meant to reflect reality, but rather the truth of the interactions as I see and feel them." In the hills of Topanga Canyon, I find the wood, and each piece changes from my subconscious. I make limited editions of nine bronze bronzes using the lost wax process from the original burl sculpture's molds. Dow's work, according to Reuters, "features humanlike forms devoid of expression or detail; they are extremely open to the viewer's interpretation."

Dow was selected as one of three sculptors to attend the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition in December 2008, which is located in the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France. He was a member of the United States delegation, which was made up of artists from the Karen Lynne Gallery. Unarmed Warrior, a bronze statue of a woman holding a shield, was on display at the Parisian shopping mall.

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