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Is Jerry Mathers Friends With Tony Dow?

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Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow are as close as real-life brothers.

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As Mathers said, “We’re good friends. Anything goes on in our families, we know about it.” To which Dow interjected, “He’s still a squirt, though.”

Dow was hired for the role in the show Johnny Wildlife a wildlife photographer and his son.

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His co-star Mathers told the Television Academy Foundation, “Tony Dow was an athlete. He was training to be an Olympic swimmer and diver. He had no ambitions to be an actor. If you look at him on a lot of the shows, he’s got his shirt off; I mean he was muscular. He was a gymnast, he was a trampolinist. He was the perfect big brother.”

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Several of the show’s cast members have died in the years since the beloved family comedy went off the air.

Cleaver dad Hugh Beaumont died in 1982; June Cleaver actor Barbara Billingsley in 2010; and Ken Osmond the actor who portrayed troublemaker Eddie Haskell, died in 2020.

But Mathers and Dow haven’t allowed the years to distance them. The friends keep in touch and appeared on Today in 2017 to mark the show’s 60th anniversary.

 

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