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    Ward Cleaver Jr. is a fictional character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Ward and his wife, June, are often invoked as archetypal...
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    Beaver is the son of June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont, respectively) and the brother of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow). The Beaver prefers...
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    June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver is a principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. June and her husband, Ward, are often invoked...
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  • to offset the boys' growing height. Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver: Before he made Ward Cleaver his acting trademark, Beaumont sometimes played villains...
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    suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old ("almost eight") title character, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. The characters...
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    Dickinson opposite his former fiancée Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation Leave It to Beaver (1997), and Tappy Tibbons in...
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    1982) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from...
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    played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont,...
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  • cultural reference, recognized as an archetype for insincere sycophants. Ward Cleaver once remarked that "[Eddie] is so polite, it's almost un-American." Eddie...
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  • Beaumont, who played Ward Cleaver in the original series, had died in 1982, a year prior to the premiere of the telemovie. His character, Ward, died in 1977...
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    example of a retro pop-art character is the more generalized form of the Ward Cleaver-styled J. R. "Bob" Dobbs-esque icon which has been widely played off...
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    McCloud" (S3E7). The following year, billed as Casey Adams, he appeared as Ward Cleaver in "It's a Small World", the original pilot for the 1950s sitcom Leave...
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  • aired on April 23, 1957. It featured Casey Adams as Ward Cleaver, and Paul Sullivan as Wally Cleaver. TV Land re-aired it on October 6, 2007, as part of...
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    Beaumont as Ward Cleaver, June's husband and the kids' father, and child actors Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver and Jerry Mathers as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. In the...
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  • Ward Cleaver (Casey Adams) is the husband of June Cleaver and the father of Wally and Beaver. Wally Cleaver (Paul Sullivan) is the older son of Ward and...
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  • McDonald as Ward Cleaver Janine Turner as June Cleaver Cameron Finley as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver Erik von Detten as Wallace "Wally" Cleaver Adam Zolotin...
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    Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party...
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    protagonist Ted Mosby (despite being attributed to Cleveland on occasion), Ward Cleaver from the TV series Leave it to Beaver, and the World Wrestling Federation's...
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  • image was taken from Yellow Pages clip art, and it has been likened to Ward Cleaver, Mark Trail, or a 1950s-era salesman. The Church's canon contains references...
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  • episode 32 (aired May 7, 1959) of Leave It to Beaver, "Friendship", Ward Cleaver uses it as a reference to his sons, due to Beaver having an argument...
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    characterisation to be an amalgamation of Hugh Beaumont's portrayal of Ward Cleaver in the American sitcom Leave It to Beaver (1957–63) and Al Pacino's portrayal...
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  • played by Charles Esten Ward Cleaver, in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver Ward Meachum, from Marvel Comics' Iron Fist Ward Zabac, in the video game...
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    somebody who has been raised with the idea that father knows best and Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, and all this stuff, I would think to myself, Oh...
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  • the bomb, the Russians, Sputnik — even rock and roll. This clenched Ward Cleaver smile masking fear (which is really what the Kent character was all about)...
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    her dad was a very “engaged” father and likened him to the character Ward Cleaver in the television show Leave it to Beaver. Kranz has appeared as a character...
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  • Little Man Dan Barton as Ward Cleaver Lora Witty as Harriet Cleaver Rheagan Wallace as Peggy Cleaver Nathaniel Bresler as Rusty Cleaver John Sarkisian as the...
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  • series episodes, perhaps most uniquely remembered as playing the father, Ward Cleaver, in the pilot for TV series Leave It to Beaver, before being replaced...
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    Leave It to Beaver episode titled "Larry's Club" (Season 3, Episode 22), Ward Cleaver told his son, Beaver, a story about groups of villagers long ago who...
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  • Wally helps Beaver in his predicament by writing a note (from "Mrs. Ward Cleaver") to Miss Canfield assuring her that Beaver has been whipped for his...
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  • life, in "The Big Squeeze". Beaumont is best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the series Leave It to Beaver, from 1957 to 1963. John Beradino as...
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