Rusty Stevens?
Jim Lavoie
Is Rusty Stevens, the actor who played Larry Mondello on Leave it to
Beaver still around? (I think that's his name).
Of course, when I was a kid, he was one of a number of actors who were
rumoured to have died in Vietnam. I don't expect that was true, but when
I think of him (I haven't seen that show for a few years), he seems to
have that "died a long time ago" quality about him.
How many people from that show have died, anyway?
Brad Ferguson
In article <551s2i$3...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, jala...@unixg.ubc.ca (Jim
Lavoie) wrote:
Hugh Beaumont died May 14, 1982 of a heart attack at 73. Richard Deacon
died August 8, 1984 at 63.
Rusty Stevens appeared as Larry in the 1983 reunion movie, STILL THE
BEAVER. I don't know if he ever showed up in the two subsequent revival
series, STILL THE BEAVER and THE NEW LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.
The rumor about one cast member of another getting killed in Vietnam
started with Jerry Mathers and transferred to other cast members, and even
to cast members from other series, as the original "victims" of the rumor
kept turning up alive. (Some "victims" had never even been in the
service.) Tommy Norden, the younger kid on the original FLIPPER, was also
supposed to have died in Vietnam, even though he was too young to have
gone. (We grew up in the same neighborhood, which is the only reason I
remember this.)
I don't think there's any child actor who was killed in Vietnam --
although Jerry Mathers, who has been reduced to appearing in Psychic
Friends infomercials, may now wish that he had been.
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Steve Bacher
>Hugh Beaumont died May 14, 1982 of a heart attack at 73. Richard Deacon
>died August 8, 1984 at 63.
That doesn't sound right. Richard Deacon died long before that, sometime in
the late 60's or early 70's, I think.
- seb
Tucker12
> - seb
If we're talking about the guy who played the Cleaver's neighbor and also
Mel on the Dick Van Dyke show, neither of these is right. He published a
cook book less than 3 years ago, and was on television promoting it. To
my knowledge, he is still alive today, but he certainly was alive in the
early 1990's.
Dean Loudermilk
Jim Lavoie <jala...@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote in article
<551s2i$3...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>...
> Is Rusty Stevens, the actor who played Larry Mondello on Leave it to
> Beaver still around? (I think that's his name).
>
> Of course, when I was a kid, he was one of a number of actors who were
> rumoured to have died in Vietnam.
I heard that there was in fact a Jerry Mathers who was killed in Vietnam
and
that was how the rumor that the actor Jerry Mathers was killed.
Brad Ferguson
In article <55lj1c$8...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, tuck...@aol.com (Tucker12)
wrote:
No, he wasn't. Richard Deacon died on August 8, 1984. His obit was in the
NY Times, and his death date is listed in the Internet Movie Database. You
do have the right actor in mind, though, and I recall that he even used to
write cook books. Perhaps you saw him on a rerun of something.
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Brad Ferguson
In article <56285d$o...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, an...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
(Joe Flannigan) wrote:
> Brad Ferguson (thir...@fred.net) writes:
> >>
> >> If we're talking about the guy who played the Cleaver's neighbor
and also
> >> Mel on the Dick Van Dyke show, neither of these is right. He
published a
> >> cook book less than 3 years ago, and was on television promoting
it. To
> >> my knowledge, he is still alive today, but he certainly was alive
in the
> >> early 1990's.
> >
> >
> > No, he wasn't. Richard Deacon died on August 8, 1984. His obit was
in the
> > NY Times, and his death date is listed in the Internet Movie
Database. You
> > do have the right actor in mind, though, and I recall that he even used to
> > write cook books. Perhaps you saw him on a rerun of something.
> >
>
> Yes, he's been dead lo these many years - and is still dead today, if I'm
> not mistaken.
>
> He had a television program on Microwave Cookery in the early 1980s (it
> was brand new then - microwaves) which was filmed in Vancouver.
>
> Richard Deacon had an difficult problem with his weight, and was often
> well over 300 lbs. in the last few years of his life.
>
> Joe F.
> Ottawa/CANADA
Eeesh. Just so we're all clear, the quote about Deacon not being dead is
_not_ mine. Thanks.
John Lupton
In article <thirteen-ya023180...@news.zippo.com> thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson) writes:
>From: thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson)
>Subject: Re: Richard Deacon (was: Re: Rusty Stevens?)
>Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 22:39:31 -0500
>In article <55lj1c$8...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, tuck...@aol.com (Tucker12)
>wrote:
>> In article <thirteen-281...@thirteen.fred.net> thir...@fred.net
>> (Brad Ferguson) writes:
>>
>> >>Hugh Beaumont died May 14, 1982 of a heart attack at 73. Richard Deacon
>> >>died August 8, 1984 at 63.
>>
>> >That doesn't sound right. Richard Deacon died long before that, sometime
>> in
>> >the late 60's or early 70's, I think.
>>
>> > - seb
>>
>> If we're talking about the guy who played the Cleaver's neighbor and also
>> Mel on the Dick Van Dyke show, neither of these is right. He published a
>> cook book less than 3 years ago, and was on television promoting it. To
>> my knowledge, he is still alive today, but he certainly was alive in the
>> early 1990's.
>No, he wasn't. Richard Deacon died on August 8, 1984. His obit was in the
>NY Times, and his death date is listed in the Internet Movie Database. You
>do have the right actor in mind, though, and I recall that he even used to
>write cook books. Perhaps you saw him on a rerun of something.
Or maybe he's thinking of Richard Dawson, former cast member of "Hogan's
Heroes" and host of "Famliy Feud"...??
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Ross C.
jlu...@sas.upenn.edu (John Lupton) wrote:
Richard Dawson didn't die, did he?
Please respond.
Ross C.
Brooklyn, NY