Tony Dow ( Wally Cleaver) Died

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    I don't get much news the past few years but I try to keep up on old actors of series I watched all my life. Tony Dow "Wally" on Leave it To Beaver died this past July. There was massive confusion when it was announced back then and the announcement was withdrawn on one network. I found more confusing video trying to find the actual announcement. He did die and it must have been some confusion with his people not wanting to let him go. He had cancer in the end. Now it looks like the only one left is The Beaver. I never knew they actually had a second show series in the 80s, shows how much TV I was watching back then.
     
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    I have the DVDs for the second run - Still the Beaver, or The New Beaver. Most of the regulars are the parents of the kids in the show. I thought it was very good but it didn't last long.
     
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    I recall when he died and the "weirdness" surrounding the veracity of the news. I grabbed this from Wiki:

    In May 2022, Dow was diagnosed with liver cancer. On July 26, 2022, after a premature report of Dow's death, his family announced that he was alive at his home in Topanga, California. However, it was reported that he was in his "last hours" and under hospice care. Dow died the following day at the age of 77.

    I just read that he was a sculptor.

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    Decades ago I read that he formed an organization to help child actors readjust to normalcy after being so popular then having to be unknown and no more work. Never heard much about it probably because unless you were in TV or movies you wouldn't. There have been a lot of those kids growing up to be terrible people.
     
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