In 1968, I bought my first house, in ’69 I got married, and we were going to start a family and I needed a job, so I went out and signed up for the LAPD. Ken Osmond, the Troublemaker Eddie Haskell on ‘Beaver’, Dies at 76. “I’m not complaining because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. He played Eddie Haskell on the 1950s and '60s TV sitcom Leave It to Beaver. It’s a death sentence,” Osmond told radio host Stu Stoshak in a 2008 interview on Stu’s Show. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Ken Osmond was a character actor known, really, for one character. Shortly after that, Osmond gave up on acting and became an LAPD officer for more than a decade. Osmond returned to making guest appearances on TV shows, including The Munsters in the late 1960s, but found he was so identified with Eddie Haskell that it was hard to land roles. The role of Eddie in Season 1 of Leave It to Beaver was also supposed to be a one-off guest appearance, but the show’s producers and its audience found him so memorable he became a regular, appearing in nearly 100 of the show’s 234 episodes. LOS ANGELES (AP) Ken Osmond, who played the two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TVs 'Leave It to Beaver,' died Monday, his family said. TIFF’s first 2023 lineup announcement: Taika Waititi’s soccer romp ‘Next Goal Wins’.Huge Glastonbury crowd buoys Lewis Capaldi amid Tourette’s symptoms.Actor Julian Sands confirmed dead after remains found on Calif. Madonna hospitalized with ‘serious’ bacterial infection, postpones tour Kenneth Charles Osmond (J May 18, 2020) was an American actor and police officer.
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