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Osmond reunited with Beaver cast members for the TV movie Still The Beaver (1983), which led to a new sitcom sequel, The New Leave It to Beaver, which aired 1984 through 1989. He’s been on death row ever since,” Osmond says.
“Three months after he got out of prison, he killed a man in a robbery. The perpetrator served three years for the shooting. One bullet struck his belt, a shot that would have killed him if it had been a half-inch lower. Osmond’s life was saved by a bullet- proof vest. “I was totally paralyzed on my back on the sidewalk and had my gun pointed at the guy, but I could not pull the trigger.” We saw the car going by us, gave chase, it crashed and we were in foot pursuit,” he recalls of the moment he was shot. “A call came on the police radio about a recently sighted stolen car. He retired from the LAPD in 1988, after being shot three times at point-blank range. “I’d bought a house, I had bills to pay, and the city offered me a paycheck every other week,” Osmond says simply. Army while filming Beaver and did TV guest roles but joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 after marrying wife Sandy the year before. Osmond says he was hopelessly typecast post- Beaver. “We got along together, we shot hoops, we played practical jokes on crew mem- bers,” Osmond says of his Beaver days. The duo’s collective nine children inspired Beaver’s through- a-kid’s-eyes scripts. The writing/producing team of the late Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher created Beaver after writing for the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy radio show and spending a dozen years writing for radio/TV versions of Amos & Andy. “Now I see our were geniuses.” Photographs courtesy of Ken Osmond “I have no childhood memories of not being around the industry so was not special – it was life,” Osmond, whose father was a Hollywood carpenter/studio prop maker, explains. Osmond had his first paid acting gig at age 6 and had already done TV roles and films like Plymouth Adventure (1952) with Spencer Tracy, so Eddie was “just another part.” It’s been more than 50 years since Ken Osmond filmed his last episode of TV’s Leave It to Beaver (1957-63), the show that catapulted the then-14-year- old to fame as the troublemaking, overly polite Eddie Haskell, a character Jerry Mathers, who played Beaver, described as “the little devil on your shoulder whispering in your ear.”