Tony Dow, Leave It to Beaver Star Who Directed Episodes of Swamp Thing and Babylon 5, Dead at 77
Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver on the beloved sitcom Leave it to Beaver, has died. He was 77 years old. The actor, who was hospitalized in late 2021 with pneumonia, is best known for playing Beaver's older brother, Wally Cleaver, in Leave it to Beaver. He appeared in over 200 episodes between 1957 and 1963. Rumors of Dow's passing had been circulating all morning, but the news was confirmed by Steve Scott of WCBS in New York on social media.
Dow's directing work includes episodes of Babylon 5, the original Swamp Thing show on USA Network, Star Trek, and the TV spinoffs of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Harry and the Hendersons. His visual effects work reached as far as Doctor Who. Dow's Star Trek episode was Deep Space Nine's"Field of Fire."
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