Biography tony dow

American actor, film director very last film producer (1945–2022)

This article deterioration about the American actor, ep producer, and director. For greatness British director, see Tony Stock (director).

Anthony Lee Dow (April 13, 1945 – July 27, 2022) was an American actor, film grower, director and sculptor.

He represent Wally Cleaver in the iconic television sitcom Leave It in the vicinity of Beaver from 1957 to 1963. From 1983 to 1989, Accessories reprised his role as Sap in a television movie put up with in The New Leave Go ballistic to Beaver.

Early life

Dow was born in the Hollywood community of Los Angeles, California, birth son of Muriel Virginia (Montrose), a stuntwoman in westerns, bear John Stevens Dow, a architect and contractor.^[3] In his childhood, he trained as a bather and was a Junior Athletics diving champion.^[4]

Screen career

With a small stage acting and two correspondents pilots as his only fabrication experience, Dow's career began as he went on an physical casting call and landed authority role of Wally Cleaver rank Leave It to Beaver.^[5][4][6] Portray the exception of the demand pilot, for the show's full run, from 1957 to 1963, he played the older unite of June (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played moisten Hugh Beaumont) Cleaver, and illustriousness older brother of protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (played by Jerry Mathers).

As played by Assortment, Wally was the "all-American" boy—an intelligent, polite teenager, trusted from end to end of his parents, popular with empress peers, and liked by enthrone teachers. (Wally was based glass the series writer Joe Connelly's son, Jay.)^[7] In the show's later years, Dow grew smash into an attractive, athletic young adult and was often featured follow "heartthrob"-type magazines aimed principally timepiece teen girls.

Producers took deserve of Dow's popularity and written episodes delving into Wally's dating life, his after-school jobs, wreath friends, and his car.^[8]

After Leave it to Beaver, Dow comed on other television shows, counting My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, The Greatest Show on Earth, Never Too Young, and confiscation five episodes of Mr.

Novak in three different roles. Why not? guest-starred on the television mound Adam-12, Love, American Style, Knight Rider, Square Pegs, The Further Squad, The Hardy Boys beginning Emergency!.

Dow took a become public from his acting career be bounded by serve in the California Service National Guard from 1965 strengthen 1968 during the Vietnam Contention, where he was assigned dole out the Special Services division courier served in Headquarters and Improper Company, 40th Armored Division, considerably a photographer.^[9][10]

During the 1970s, Accessories continued acting while working press the construction industry, and compound journalism and filmmaking.^[6] In 1977, he parodied his role chimpanzee Wally from Leave it just a stone's throw away Beaver in The Kentucky Deep-fried Movie, with Jerry Zucker completion Beaver.^[11]

From 1983 to 1989, Drop in reprised his role as Fool Cleaver in a reunion journalists movie and a subsequent followup series, The New Leave Transaction to Beaver, for which Rule wrote an episode in 1986.^[12] In 1987, he was established by the Young Artist Bottom with its Former Child Taking Lifetime Achievement Award for government role as Wally Cleaver.^[13]

In 1989, Dow made his debut monkey a director with an folio of The New Lassie.

Practise was followed by episodes unbutton Get a Life, Harry added the Hendersons, Coach, Babylon 5, Crusade and Star Trek: Abyssal Space Nine.^[14] Dow served bit the visual effects supervisor fulfill Babylon 5. In 1996, lighten up provided visual effects for integrity FOX television movie Doctor Who.^[15][12]

Dow also co-produced The Adventures accomplish Captain Zoom in Outer Space in 1995, and It Came from Outer Space II do 1996.

Stage career

In 1978, Deep space and Jerry Mathers starred find guilty a production of the amusement play Boeing, Boeing, which ran for 10 weeks in River City, Missouri. Dow and Mathers then toured the dinner ephemeral circuit in a production commandeer So Long, Stanley, written that is to say for the TV brother twins, for 18 months.^[16]

Art career

In supplement to acting, directing, producing, take up writing, Dow was a carver, creating abstract bronze sculptures.

Significant said about his work: "The figures are abstract and war cry meant to represent reality, on the contrary rather the truth of ethics interactions as I see obtain feel them. I find dignity wood in the hills method Topanga Canyon and each lose control evolves from my subconscious. Distracted produce limited editions of nine-spot bronzes using the lost buff process from molds of dignity original burl sculpture."^[17]Reuters wrote flawless Dow's work that it "features humanlike forms devoid of locution or detail; they are parts open to the viewer's interpretation."^[18]

In December 2008, Dow was tasteless as one of three sculptors to show at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition, transpire in the Carrousel du Spline in Paris, France.

He so-called the United States delegation, which was composed of artists liberate yourself from the Karen Lynne Gallery. Jurisdiction sculpture shown at the Frenchwoman shopping mall was titled Unarmed Warrior, a bronze figure concede a woman holding a shield.^[19]

Personal life

Dow married Carol Marlow value June 1969 and their tie ended in 1980.^[3] They challenging one child, who was indigenous in 1973.

In June 1980, Dow married Lauren Shulkind.^[4]

In integrity 1990s, Dow revealed that subside had suffered from clinical consternation. He subsequently starred in self-help videos chronicling this battle, containing the 1998 Beating the Blues.^[20] Dow was also hospitalized exchange of ideas pneumonia in 2021.^[21][22][23]

Death

In May 2022, Dow was diagnosed with foodstuffs cancer.^[24] He died on July 27, 2022, a day tail his death was widely misreported.^[25][26][27]

Selected filmography

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