LITB Cast's Real Families

[MISST3]

Gerald "Jerry" Mathers was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1948, the son of a high school principal, Norm (and Marilyn) Mathers, and grew up in Rock Rapids,Ca. and in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California. He has two younger siblings, Susie Mathers McSweeney and Jim Mathers, who also became child actors. Earlier family photo below:

[Torgo]

Really nice picture of the Mathers family

[MISST3]

Jerry Mathers has been married three times. He met his first wife, Diana Platt, in college. They married in 1974 and later divorced in 1981. Mathers met his second wife, Rhonda Gehring, while touring in the production of So Long, Stanley. They have three children, a son (Noah) and two daughters (Mercedes and Gretchen). Mathers and Gehring later divorced, in 1997. Mathers married his third wife, Teresa Modnick, in Huntington Beach on January 30, 2011.

Jerry and Teresa Mathers

[Bonniegirl]

Cool pictures Misst3 - Here is TonyDow and his wife Lauren !

[MISST3]

Great picture, Bonnie!
Tony Dow was born in Hollywood, California, to John Stevens Dow, Jr. (1908–1987), a designer and general contractor, and Muriel Virginia Dow (née Montrose) (1906 – 2001), a stunt woman in early Westerns and Clara Bow's movie double in Hollywood. In his youth, Dow was a Junior Olympics diving champion. He won the role of Wally Cleaver in a casting call with almost no previous acting experience. Tony's been married to Lauren, since 1980.
They have one child, Christopher and 2 grandchildren.

[PhoenixAcres]

Those are some great pictures! I've never seen them before.

[MISST3]

Tony and son, Christopher Dow

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Hugh Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas.(1909-1984) His parents were Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, a traveling salesman whose profession kept the family on the move. He later studied at the University of Southern California and graduated with a Master of Theology degree in 1946, and was
a licensed Methodist minister. He also owned a Christmas tree farm, and would rush home to his Minnesota farm as soon as the LITB series production
ended. That's why a different voice narrates for Ward, in parts of some episodes, ie "Beaver's Team".


In 1942, he married Kathryn Adams Doty (née Kathryn Elizabeth Hohn), an actress who later earned a master's degree in educational psychology and had a career as a psychologist. The couple had three children, Hunter, Kristy, and Mark. They divorced in 1974.

Hugh and Kathryn Beaumont

[MISST3]

Because Hugh Beaumont commuted from his Christmas tree farm to Hollywood, it was his routine to drive the family west after the LITB
show hiatus. But, for whatever reason, one time, his son, Hunter drove
the family west, in Hugh's absence. Hunter, was in a car accident,
everyone survived, except, Hugh's mother-in-law was killed. The LITB
episode "Substitute Father", was written to give Hugh, time off during
those tragic events.

Hunter Beaumont

[DJM77]

Originally Posted by MISST3

Tony and son, Christopher Dow

That really looks like Bill Mumy.

[MISST3]

You're right that does look like Bill Mumy! Those are the two pictures I had for Christopher Dow.

[MISST3]

Barbara Billingsley was born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1915, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Lillian Agnes (née McLaughlin; 1891–1956) and Robert Collyer Combes (1891–1950), a police officer.She had one elder sibling, Elizabeth. Her parents divorced sometime before her fourth birthday, and her father, who later became an assistant chief of police, remarried. After her divorce, Lillian Combes went to work as a foreman at a knitting mill.
After attending Los Angeles Junior College for one year, Billingsley traveled to Broadway, when Straw Hat, a revue in which she was appearing, attracted enough attention to send it to New York City. When the show closed, after five days, went to work as a fashion model. In 1941, she married restaurateur Glenn Billingsley, Sr. She landed a contract with MGM Studios in 1945 and moved with her husband to Los Angeles the following year. She started the Leave it to Beaver series in 1957.

[MISST3]

Barbara Billingsley was married three times and had two children. She married Glenn Billingsley, Sr. (1912–1984) in 1941. They had two sons, Drew and Glenn, Jr., and divorced in 1947.
In 1953, she married British-born movie director Roy Kellino. They were married until Kellino's death in 1956. Billingsley's third and final marriage was to Dr. William S. Mortensen. They married in 1959 and remained together until Mortensen's death.

Barbara wth husband, Dr. William Mortensen

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Robert "Rusty" Stevens (born November 25, 1948) is an American former child actor best remembered for his role as Larry Mondello, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's young friend, in the original Leave It to Beaver television series. Stevens appeared in 68 of the show's 235 episodes, between 1957 and 1960. Stevens was reported to have left the show in 1960 because his family moved from Burbank to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, although Barbara Billingsley, who played "June Cleaver" on the series, said in a TV Archive interview that Stevens was dropped because his overbearing mother caused grief for the producers of the series. Rusty, chooses to live a
quiet life and refuses any TV appearances. He is thought to have been in the
insurance and real estate business.

[Nurse Sully]

These photos are wonderful. Many of which I have never seen before.