Actor

Jerry Mathers

At the tender age of nine, Jerry Mathers had already acted in six films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry. His debut had been a few years earlier at age two when he appeared on The Ed Wynn Show. The show's producers claimed that Mathers won the role of Beaver Cleaver because he asked to leave his audition to go to a Cub Scouts meeting.

In the years following Beaver, Mathers managed to keep himself busy finishing high school, going to college and playing with his band, Beaver and the Trappers. Mathers stared in Still the Beaver and a syndicated series, The New Leave It to Beaver. Mathers released an autobiography in 1998.