Biographies: Ken Osmond - Actor

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An American actor and police officer, born in Glendale, California, USA as Kenneth Charles Osmond. Ken Osmond received the Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988 for Leave It to Beaver (1957). He married Sandra Lee Purdy in 1969, and they had two children, and she remained with him until his death in 2020. His most important works include Hi Honey, I'm Home (1992), Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1991), and The New Leave It to Beaver (1983-1998). He began his career as a child actor at the age of four by appearing in theater and films, and in the late fifties, he played the role of Eddie Haskell in the comedy TV series Leave It to Beaver, which continued for 6 seasons until 1963. The audience watched him grow from childhood to adolescence in this role. He found it difficult to obtain other acting roles because of this famous role, so he joined the police force in Los Angeles until he retired due to injuries as a result of being shot. In the eighties, he resumed his artistic career. Ken Osmond was born to a father who worked as a carpenter and propmaker. He began going on auditions at the age of four with the encouragement of his mother, who would take him and his brother Dayton after school to lessons in dance, drama, recitation, dialects, martial arts, and horseback riding. He began appearing in commercials and made his first appearance as a child with his brother in the movie Plymouth Adventure (1952), starring Spencer Tracy, and the first movie in which he spoke was So Big (1953), starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden. He continued to appear as a child in many films and television programs until 1957 when he participated in the series Leave It to Beaver, where he played the role of the opportunistic hypocrite in 96 episodes - the character that stuck with him and which he later presented in 4 series. After a period in the army, he returned to artistic work as a young man, but he did not find enough work, so he joined the police, but eventually retired, returning to television work, and appearing in some films in supporting roles. His last appearance was in the 2016 movie Characterz, after which he retired until he died in Los Angeles, California, USA on May 18, 2020 of a heart attack.

31 October 2021
Christina Aziz