Jerry Mathers (Theodore Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver) Niagara Falls Comic Con 2019
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Jerry Mathers, born Gerald Patrick Mathers on June 2nd, 1948, is an American actor best known for playing Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver in the iconic television sitcom "Leave it to Beaver" for 234 episodes over 6 full 39-week seasons from 1957 to 1963. He reminisces about his career, shares behind-the-scenes stories and answers fan questions at his 2019 Niagara Falls Comic Con Q&A panel.
"Leave it to Beaver" is a late 1950s black-and-white American television sitcom about the inquisitive and often naive "Beaver" and his adventures at home, in school and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show attained an iconic status in the United States since the Cleavers exemplified the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.
The show was created by writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, veterans of radio and early television who found inspiration for the show's characters, plots and dialogue in the lives, experiences and conversations of their own children. "Leave It to Beaver" is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a child's point of view. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s ("Lassie" and "My Three Sons"), "Leave It to Beaver" is a glimpse of middle-class American boyhood. In a typical episode, Beaver gets into some sort of boyish scrape, then faces his parents for reprimand and correction. Neither parent was omniscient or infallible; the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes were built around parental gaffes. The still-popular show ended its run in 1963 primarily because it had reached its natural conclusion: In the show, Wally was about to enter college and the brotherly dynamic at the heart of the show's premise would be broken with their separation.
Contemporary commentators praise "Leave it to Beaver" with Variety having compared Beaver to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. The show has enjoyed a renaissance in popularity since the 1970s through off-network syndication, a reunion telemovie ("Still the Beaver" in 1983), a sequel series titled "The New Leave it to Beaver" (1985-1989) and a 1997 movie version based on the original series. Although the show never broke into the Nielsen ratings top 30 or won any awards, it placed on Time magazine's unranked 2007 list of "All-TIME 100 TV Shows."
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I am 63 and still love watching Leave It To Beaver every day. Best show in history. Makes you wish it was still the 50s and early 60s when things were pure and simple.
I was born in 1953 and watched all the episodes. I always enjoyed Ward teaching the boys something new about life that could be passed on to the audience. I still watch the reruns along with other 60’s TV shows I grew up watching.
Happy long belated Birthday. Classic treasure to millions of fans worldwide no doubt
Oh how I love leave it to beaver 🦫 I watch it everyday I don't get bored with the reruns I enjoy watching the shows over and over again.. I'm so sorry we lost Tony Dow.. I'm sure he is in heaven...
@@deborahmcadams4607 I loved growing up always watched leave it to Beaver,always wanted a Beaver and Wally, I ended up having 3 sons
Whatever magic the show had, the magic has not died. I watched the show as a child and I watch the original show and Still The Beaver today as an aging adult. Still makes me smile and the nostalgia is delicious!
Same here....watched it as a kid. I still watch it almost every morning at 6:00am. Like you, it still makes me laugh and brings back great memories.
Jerry will always be the beaver lol still love him to this day. A great lil boy & so adorable & grew up to be a awesome & great man.
So wonderful to see that Jerry Mathers grew up to be a fine man, and speaks so well of his real family AND television family!
I learned a lot of life's lessons from watching "Leave It To Beaver." Thanks, everyone.
I love looking at all the beautiful cars used in the show which were brand new at the time. Ford's the first two seasons, big finned Mopars for the last four. Great show! RIP Ken Osmond ( Eddie Haskell ).
Hugh beaumont was a great father in leave it to beaver. Ken osmond was great in leave it to beaver. Tony dow was great brother in leave it to beaver. I watch leave it to beaver all the time. I enjoy that television show.
I dident care for eddy he picked on beaver 🦫
And Babara such a great mother....
I love that show!I'm a 63 yr old female.I still watch it on utube!
He's a Class act.
Definitely!
he looks amazing for 71!...wow...
& he wasn’t even born in an era where people were supposed to live that long
71 is NOT old. He could have gone to Woodstock for crying out loud
it was great show those 2 kids work so well together
RIP Tony Dow/Wally Cleaver
Love you Jerry. My grandkids are watching you now.
I grew up with leave it to beaver, I still watch it from my Roku, now 63 still loving the Cleavers.❤❤
Born in 56 I've been watching forever
RIP Eddie Haskell/ Ken Osmond...
What a great interview. Jerry you are so genuine. Ive seen every show at least 20x each. I saved about 60 of my favorite episodes from MeTv so I can watch them anytime. BEST show on tv, ever.
I'm seventy soon and I've been watching it more often lately because it reminds me of a time when we were free. Over the years it has caught my attention that the State i.e. a nefarious unseen global government is beginning to put the squeeze on the world. Our rights are disappearing while the dumbed population hasn't a clue to what's happening.
I love the Beav, grew up with it but I have to correct Jerry: the longest running show in the history of TV is I Love Lucy, followed by the Honeymooners
I believe Jerry means that Leave it to Beaver has been on the air the most number of years: from 1957 to now!
@@anniedill43 Yes, and he's wrong. I love Lucy came on in the early '50's, like '52 and it's never been off the air
I was born in 1952, caught every episode of course and watch the reruns today. They came for a promo to Hershey Park the year they were interviewing for the new show that they were going to call Still the Beaver. We met the stars of the show which included all the family members. My younger son, Joe caught their eye and asked if he would consider interviewing for the part of Beaver's son. We flew to California, Joe was the last 5 of 500 comebacks to be interviewed. I remember them saying he did a great job but he spoke like someone from Baltimore. They suggested we go back home and sign him up for diction classes. The show was a bust but it sure was a lot of fun, a great experience. Now Joe and I share the experience with my grandchildren, Joe's children. We were treated so nicely, went to Disneyland for free, got to explore the back lots, visited the Cleaver house and walked a few doors down to see psycho house from the famous movie Psycho. Of course we got to meet the movie stars who were working at the studios. It was a real kick. LOL
boy that sounds great
the psycho house was on a Universal lot? Where was the Cleaver home in relation to that? I remember the Munster home was on LITB.
I was born in 54, so much of that show takes me back, to those days of yesteryear.
I wish I could go back to certain years and live there with my wife.
Jerry Mathers is a great humanitarian. I love his show and have every episode memorized.
This was the Best interview I have ever seen with a former child Star. Bravo!
Huge was my favorite a great Dad
I love that show!
Just watched Still the Beaver. I don't think I realized how un-PC the show was in general.
That episode where Ward said Wally and Beaver were probably watching some fat lady yell at her kid, and it it faded in to that scene...hilarious!! 😁
Awesome, looks incredibly young for 71.
I still watch leave it to Beaver on MeTV it brings back lots of memories of life
Great watch.
I loved this interview! It was amazing!
Love the channel and interview. Jerry Mathers is A very humble person. I subscribed to your channel
I Love it ,and still watch, Leave it to Beaver TV Show ❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏😇
I remember seeing Hugh Beaumont as a minister on The Lone Ranger.
Leave it to beaver 👍👏🌺
If I could live any celebrity's life, it might be Jerry Mathers- he has had a heck of a life.
I'm loving this interview! The only thing is we can't hear the audience when they ask their questions. So, it's difficult to figure out the questions when all you hear are the answers. However, I am still enjoying this. THANK YOU!!!
Still love the Beaver and I missed Larry!
I watched the reruns those were good
I’m 70 and behind Tom Terrific was Leave it to Beaver .
Loved Jerry's "Married With Children" episodes! "Foodies, Foodies"!
Love the show have all the season s just got then love the parents great parents
Burt Mustin, who played Gus the Fireman, was best known for his semi-recurring role on the Andy Griffith Show. He also appeared in many movies and TV shows, including The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (in which he had no lines, oddly) and Dragnet. I very much enjoyed this interview, but wish I could have heard the questions from the audience.
He also did more than one "All in the Family".
They should add captions to this video for the audience questions.
I remember the Emmy show when he was in uniform.
Henry!
Beavers pigeon great show.
Love this show since I was a kid
Jerry Mathers reminds me a bit of Matthew Broderick.
True story--Robert Stevens' family moved to Philadelphia PA. Bob worked at Home Depot in NJ. He now lives in a 55 plus place with his RN wife Theresa. I know one of the people who worked with him--Bob worked in the back on the phones/customer service. He retired about 2012 and is currently having medical issues. I dont want to say too much but he lived near me and after they moved still about 3 miles from here.
I grew up watching leave it to beaver
I don't think i would want to see a different Wally!
Great Show....was in the "Best of the Best"...Great Cast!!!...Great Show!!!
Great Show have watched every episode multiple times - very few were Bad. Sorry to see Ken Osmond died
A great show and a great person.
I am binge watching Leave it to Beaver now.
Glad u turned out to be a great human being, need more shows like u played. The world would be a little better. Love 💘 and prayers 🙏
Great interview!
I just recently found out Tony Dow passed away sorry to hear he is no longer around but leave it to Beaver is still around and will always be around life is too short not to enjoy sooner pass away and nothing but memories to loved ones God bless leave it to Beaver all the cast members and production God bless everyone
Love Jerry as much as Beaver
@10:11. The episodes are here on TH-cam thanks to some fan’s VCR.
Shame that the audience questions aren't audible.
Interesting interview, but why didn't the interviewer repeat the questions from the audience?
Love that you can't hear the the questions.
I agree that sucked - the host was horrible
@@LtColonelUSMC In what way was the host horrible?
You are being Stonewalled🤐
i got t meet jerry and 'eddie' at a restaurant on walden and union both very cordial and humble
Oh yeah just the other day on TH-cam it showed the beaver on the dating game back in 1966 because he was picked but I don’t know how the date turned out
75!? Still looks boyish and still has the same charming mannerisms!
I think he said he's 71. He looks great and has a very nice, sweet personality.
It sends chills down your spine? It scares you?
Lololol.....
Lolololololll
Especially, when you fall on your back in the Arctic..
Too bad we could not hear the questions ...
Loved this interview, but could not hear the questions from the audience's questions.
I always wondered what happened to Larry Mondello! Great info, if a little repetitive
Lives in NJ in a 55 +
It sure would be nice to repeat the question from the audience. None of the questions could be heard. The answers were loud and clear.
The "New Leave it to Beaver" episodes are all on youtube.
I think he's talking about the original masters. The ones on YT are personal copies, VHS.
As you are taking questions we cannot hear what questions is it possible to repeat question before the answer. Thank you
Jerry MATHERS ❤ , in his teenage years highschool was in band,
BEAVER 🙏❤🇺🇸😊 and the
TRAPPERS,
Rock and Roll Band
They played in Highschool Gymnasiums around the area,
they did cut one album, Atlantic records,
Leave it to beaver is about the only show besides were watching my wife for a watch so I make sure I have it all in the morning on MeTV there’s a kind of shows that should be on
I don't buy the high heels explanation for June Cleaver. She wore high heels from day one, when she towered above both Jerry and Tony Dow. They didn't start putting her in high heels because the kids got too big.
JOSEPH HEWES, you tell 'em! They cannot be spreading that personal insight crap. After all, I think we all knew who was there and would know.
I mean it could not possibly be that they wanted BILLINGSLEY to look much taller than the kids from the jump, the beginning of the show just in case they had a growth spurt like a 12 year old DOW would never have...noooooo..
YOU TELL 'EM.
Because you were not there and they were and so you're the expert.
That'll TEACH 'EM..
Gotta get up pretty early to put one over on you, JOE HEWES, say.. like..
1:30 pm..
Just finished watching the BOX SET all seasons...
how the heck did we go from that to this WOKENESS ?
Awful.
What a great NATION the USA was back then .
i wish someone would do an interview with my three son's to
This interview was fun but is it me or did Jerry repeat a lot?
It's still on everyday in Philly on METV.
It's hard to choose a favorite episode.
I Love how down to earth he is; and he has wonderful manners.
I was lucky to see an episode of the New Leave it To Beaver, where they paid tribute to Hugh Beaumont. I cried.
Both Jerry and Tony drank a lot of milk on those episodes. Just wondering if they grew up detesting it or loving it?
What a dumb comment
I remember those milk glasses were over half full and June still excused them from the table 😮That Never would have happened with most parents 🥛👈🏼FINISH YOUR MILK AND YOU MAY BE EXCUSED IS WHAT I REMEMBER 😂.
The English 🙄 it figures.
How old is he now? I loved him as a little boy. He was funnier.
Does anyone know when Jerry Mathers retired and stopped acting? I have seen him in films before LITB.
Did they ever explain how Theodore got the nickname, Beaver?
Yes, in the Finale. Wally couldn't say "Theodore", it sounded more like "Beaver".So, it stuck!
Tom Campbell exactly correct
Glenn ie - you’re obviously not a fan if you don’t know that
@@LtColonelUSMC, calling for a good flogging.
How dare that person not becoming obsessed with trivia and a cornball tv show from 60 years ago..off with his...
SET.
Poncho!
Puff-Puff!
Tony Dow tried to change the name of the show to Leave It To Wally
Rick you’re full of shit
KEN/Eddie wanted LEAVE IT TO VANDALISM..
I wonder how much of an influence shows like Leave it to Beaver, My three sons, Andy Griffiths show, and those early tv shows had on the generation that began to believe that children should never be spanked....not that I believe in hitting a child, but sometimes a smack on the butt is needed....
Mathers talked about how if you did something wrong on the show they had consequences...but if you really watch the shows none of the children ever really got punished, just dad or mom giving them that's wrong speech and it was wrong for you to do that...most kids would be having a party of they had to face those same consequences that these tv kids had to deal with when getting caught do something wrong/bad...
My sister & I had a conversation about this and wondered if it wasn't really these tv shows that influenced people when it came to not spanking children instead of blaming liberals as some people like to do...
I still do watch these shows...
but sometimes I have to laugh at just how unrealistic these families really were for 70-80% of American families...
And just once I wished that Beaver would have ratted Larry out because Larry was always the one that talked beaver into doing the things he wasn't supposed to do...
well there is a connection, those parents didn't hit their kids either. I really remember wishing my Dad was more like Ward and the other dads on TV. I actually ended up being more like the TV dads.
Nice try lib, DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK, an avowed socialist, pushed for that crap, and we have a whole three generations of adults or near adults who grew up never learning humility, and as spoiled me-first brats with bloated egos. Add that to the ESTEEM PSYCHOLOGY/ YOU'RE SO SPECIAL, no matter what negative crap you do, garbage during the last 25 years and you have a country that is teetering on the edge of collapse due to its own egomania and stubborness to speak the truth.
Finally, the TV shows no matter what the punishment back then were never going to show spankings of big adults whopping smaller kids because that would jump out negatively and abruptly across the screen interrupting the mind tranquilizer people were being fed. TV back then, and to an extent today, was a sedative and if you don't believe that, an adjunct Professor of MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS at PRINCETON did a research project in the 1970's that showed that just based on his students involved in the project, the more TV they watched, the more docile the student. Later, he wrote a novel about that passivity which was made into a movie- BEING THERE. Yep, JERZY KOSINSKI saw it in his research, and PETER SELLERS as Chauncy Gardener demonstrated it on the screen.
TV is a big tranquilizer.
Make no mistake about it.
MANY people thought I was beaver, many a times people would stare at me as they pass. while pastoring a church, the association of churches had a young picture, who is your pastor. I sent a picture of beaver and I, and asked which is your pastor, they chose Jerry Mathers.
That's not true, I was "The Beaver".
They thought I was THING on the Addams Family..That came in HAND...y
@@robertsprouse9282 WHO IS THE THEM WHOM I AGREE WITH ?
@@wanttopreach, it wasn't your grammar teacher; that's for sure.
Hope he and Tony get residuals from the show.....
I heard they got next to nothing.
WHY DO THE CREDITS SHOW JACK BARRON AS THE MAKE UP MAN ???
Just watched the episode where Wally ran for class President and Lumpy came up and congratulated him for getting 53 votes. And Eddy had to remind Lumpy that he only got 9 votes 😂. They both lost to a more popular guy I guess.
Thumbnail looks like Jack Nicholson instead of Gerry 🙂
Everyone thought that I looked and reasoned like Jerry Mathers, the Beaver! I am 68 years old and born July 20, 1954 just 4 years younger than Jerry Mathers who as friends tell me played me Mark Redmond! I i’ll host a podcast called ears on Santa Barbara and it’s on TH-cam here’s on Santa Barbara episode eight just came out I’m working on episode nine and I’ve got the first three out there also podcast 456 and seven was removed it would it may be put back on but I had a Director who went wacko nuts spot on me broke a glass in my kitchen and I don’t have him anymore he was drinking six pack of beer when he got done Uber driving I gave him a free place to stay while he was working on my podcast and all he did was drink beer at night and smoke lots of marijuana he was a pothead so I got rid of him and I work with JP at the Santa Barbara TV station to edit my podcast
They told me I looked like LOST IN SPACE'S.. THE ROBOT.
What’s your real family life like
the show may not have survived without Eddie Haskell as being too cheesy. He was chasing car thief but he did not know the bad guy STOPPED and instead waited. so he ran up to him face to face and bad guy shot him 3 times
I really wish jerry let tony talk period hating have a chance to get a word in edgewise
To release your anger, you need to find Jerry and give him the business, make him go ape, speed and get pulled over by KEN OSMOND JR.
eddie
Wow! Had no idea he and I are the same age!!! Holy crap..now I am old....scheeze !!!...the like the " My Three Sons.".best of those shows in the 50's...Ozzie and Harriet--- was next...why??? I hated Eddie Haskell....he was such a jerk...liar...on" Leave it to Beaver."...so I did not watch it much...fyi
Ok so i heard jerry became a warlock... Weird