Mechanical Engineer. Move out and get a job. His father was a real estate broker. They have front gnawing teeth designed for the job. His mother was a housewife and his father was a customs officer. He is an engineer at a nuclear power plant in California. Rihanna's dad sells clothes from the back of his car. Log in. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. Study guides. Q: Beaver's dad's job Write your answer Related questions. What was the Joe Jonas's dads job? What was Jesus dads job?
What was shakspeares dads job? What was Mozart dads job? What is Katy Perry's dads job? Beaumont would later admit that his role as Mr. Ward Cleaver was one of his proudest achievements. According to an interview with Closer Weekly from July , his daughter said he never let fame go to his head.
It was a way to support his family. The actor was able to look past his resentment of the show and contribute solid performances to the iconic TV series during its six seasons. He even stayed in touch with his sons on the show for years to come, and became a mentor to them. In , Beaumont passed away at the age of 72 after suffering a heart attack. Hugh and my dad had become friends and he occasionally came to our house to play cards with my father and some of his friends.
They cling to each other in a tenderless sort of way, as if they were afraid of the outside world. There is a good deal of cynicism and despair in this comedy. Nobody is up to any good. The world is full of Haskels. Nobody can really be trusted. Everybody gets into a mess. Tenderness is lacking. Every silver lining has a cloud. There is no genunine happiness in the Cleaver house. Nobody laughs, except nervously. Fear seems to reign supreme. This rather gloomy atmosphere can be appealing and also wearisome.
One yearns for a mistake-free day at the Cleavers!!! One vignette sticks in my memory: Beaver's new bicycle was damaged, and he says "I wish I was dead". Cleaver says: Not to worry, the warranty will take care of it. When he can't find the warranty, Mr.
Cleaver echoes: "I wish I was dead! BumpyRide 8 June The true death knell for any show- puberty! Aside from that, Jerry Mathers was a very talented little kid that seems to have bypassed the "Diffrent Strokes" curse of many a child star.
While Ward and June were a little plastic, the Beav and his friends, especially Lumpy and Judy were always a hoot to watch. This was one show that got it right when it came to kids. They acted and did things that kids do. They weren't perfect like "The Brady Bunch" yet they weren't bad either.
Just normal kids doing kid things which led to hysterical results. A comedy that still holds up today. MichaelMartinDeSapio 8 January There are two reasons for this. First is the sheer quality of the production, from the superior writing to the sharp photography to the realism and chemistry of the performers, particularly the quartet who portrayed the Cleaver family and of course Ken Osmond as the devious Eddie Haskell!
BEAVER maintained a remarkably consistent quality throughout its run; there was no marked decline, and the series quit while it was ahead. There weren't really any bad episodes, either. I could rattle off a few that were weaker than others, but the level of consistency was remarkable. The other reason for its success is that, despite its focus on teaching moral lessons, BEAVER never lost sight of being funny, whimsical, and entertaining.
The show was a pure aesthetic pleasure. The dialogue captured the way children think and speak, and as delivered by Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Rusty Stevens, and the other young performers it was frequently hilarious.
BEAVER gave us a child's-eye view of the world, playing on human nature and drawing laughs from ordinary situations. And so many of the episodes have stood the test of time. Who can forget Beaver and his portly pal Larry Mondello smoking coffee grounds in Ward's meerschaum pipe? Or the duo playing hooky from school and unwittingly ending up on a cowboy show on TV?
Or Beaver being lured into climbing in a billboard soup cup? Plus the many rites of passage, scholastic and otherwise, that marked the lives of Beaver and Wally Cleaver as they grew up in Mayfield, USA. To many people "Leave It to Beaver" is just a phrase conjuring up the "homogenized, squeaky clean" s. Go beyond the stereotypes and reacquaint yourself with this television classic.
You will be surprised at just how sharp, ironic, and funny it is. Started watching the series again. Never realized how much of a snob June was. Always worried what her friends and neighbors would think. Ward was a no better. Always exploding. It's just a nice show. I wouldn't say that it's my favorite, but because of when it was created I give it credit and lets just say that when it's on TV Land, I won't change the channel.
Ahh, what a great year. By watching a few episodes of this show, I would guess that it was created later than when it actually was. It wasn't too ahead of its time, but it definitely stood out from the others.
It's nice yet sometimes frustrating knowing that each and every episode will end happily ever after, so to speak.
I like the cast, especially Tony Dow, but there's something that bugs me about Barbara Billingsley. Overall, the cast fits nicely together and accomplishes to put together a few good seasons. The writing is alright - a little bland, a little silly, but still enjoyable. I like "Leave it to Beaver" because it's a show where nothing bad, nothing inappropriate will ever occur, and hey, it's nice to see kids saying "gee" and "gosh, mom".
That just makes me laugh a little every time I hear that from the Beaver. On one level, it's a charming reminder of how different life was in idealized 50's America. On the other hand, this show today comes across as so over the top corny, so patently bizarre, I can no longer tell if I'm watching a satire on LITB or the real thing.
I am only 25, but saw Leave it To Beaver on television about 5 years ago and was already nostalgic and then went on to watch it whenever I could on TV Land. A few months ago when we were back where I grew up in Washington, I showed this to my year old brother and he liked it right away; I started with the final season I bought in Seattle earlier in the trip so he saw him in his older days where his voice had deepened and he had a "funny sounding" voice. These were such episodes as where Wally grew a mustache, and Beaver finds that the paperboy he wants to get back at was really a girl, and Beaver gets ready to tour the USA with his class.
He liked the older Beaver better. Ward was rather liberal for the late 's and early 's. How He is sometimes seen in the kitchen and doing dishes for example and rarely punishes Wally and Theodore.
Beaver is his nickname to those who weren't part of the generation. When Beaver drills a hole in the garage with Larry coaxing him into having fun with the drill Ward just gave a stern lecture with no punishment, which still led the 7 or 8 year old Beaver to try and run away. When his father wasn't lenient giving a stern talking to or just passing a wise lesson along, he was maybe just on par with parents who are neither lenient nor strict.
The one thing that may have bothered me before is that Hugh Beaumont died before I was even born. Mayfield was one of those towns where the state doesn't seem to be revealed, as the nature of Ward's work was never revealed, he was just seen in his office, often with his bumbling and annoying coworker, Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford's dad.
Wally was perhaps the funniest part of the show. The generation gap and placing friends above family what Wally and later the Beaver had to say to their parents was a funny recurring joke on the show ie. One thing I didn't like was how much Beaver treated girls as repulsive and how long it took him to get over it, he only knew that adult women were too grown up to be icky in any way, he had an infatuation with his young teachers in season 1 and season 2.
Mathers was a cute boy, all the way through the show and didn't lose his charm after his voice deepened. He was a nice and charming teenager. Sometimes i might feel like a dork wanting to watch a series that is outdated by nearly 50 years every night, when most people under their mid or late 30's or so haven't even seen Leave it To Beaver, much less make early TV Land era shows part of their lineup. ButI have even got my contemporary slightly older brother to watch Leave it To Beaver.
Leave it to Beaver is one of the classic sit-coms of all time. It is timeless and has had meaning for every generation that has watched it since its inception.
It is in that rare category of show that will be shown forever. When my young children discovered it, valuable lessons were learned. We laughed at the "messes" Beaver got in, usually with the help of friends talking him into it.
We all learned to trust our judgment and not be led into unnecessary trouble. If there was trouble out there Beaver would find it. Thanks to the Beaver, mine have had a little more trouble finding it than they might have otherwise.
Lots of laughs and a lesson to be learned every show. Please check my comments for "Still the Beaver", a many years later continuation , and if you get the chance tune into it for some "Cleaver's: the next generation action".
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