As he recalled in The Jeff Dwoskin Show, “At that time, I had bright, ridiculously bright red hair and the freckles … a real all-American boy-type kid.”
He quickly went from background roles to speaking parts, and in a memoir for TV Party, he described how early that journey started:
“I was involved in TV from the age of six. I started as an extra for the first year or so, in such shows as Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It To Beaver, The Millionaire, Bachelor Father and Petticoat Junction.”
Leave It to Beaver
Fans of Leave It to Beaver will remember him as one of Beaver’s classmates, appearing as early as the show’s pilot episode. Eimen later recalled working with Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow, calling them “such genuinely nice guys.”Continue reading…