1. Gerald Patrick Mathers was born on June 2,1948 and is a former American actor best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963.
19 Facts About Jerry Mathers
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Jerry Mathers was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1948, the son of a high school principal, and grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California.
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Jerry Mathers has one sister and two brothers, including Jimmy Jerry Mathers.
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Jerry Mathers began his career at the age of two when he appeared as a child model for a department store ad.
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Jerry Mathers played the Beaver for six years, appearing in all 234 episodes of the series.
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Jerry Mathers was the first child actor to have had a deal made on his behalf to get a percentage of the merchandising revenue from a television show.
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Jerry Mathers noted that the Leave It to Beaver phenomenon is worldwide.
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In 1962, near the end of the run of Leave It to Beaver, Jerry Mathers recorded two songs for a single 45 rpm: "Don't 'Cha Cry," and for the flip side, the twist ditty "Wind-Up Toy".
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Jerry Mathers attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.
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In December 1969, a rumor began that Jerry Mathers was killed in action in the Vietnam War.
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Jerry Mathers graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1973.
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Jerry Mathers then used well-invested savings from his acting career, in which he earned a starting weekly salary of $500, to begin a career in real estate development.
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In 1983, Jerry Mathers reprised his role in the television reunion film Still the Beaver, which featured the majority of the original cast from Leave It to Beaver.
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In 2009, Jerry Mathers became the national spokesman for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and its Partnership for Prescription Assistance.
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In 2018 and 2019, Jerry Mathers promoted Leave It to Beaver and other classic television shows on MeTV.
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Jerry Mathers met his first wife, Diana Platt, in college.
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Jerry Mathers met his second wife, Rhonda Gehring, while touring in the production of So Long, Stanley.
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Jerry Mathers married his third wife, Teresa Modnick, on January 30,2011.
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Jerry Mathers represented a Type 2 diabetes reversal program's publications in a television ad.