By Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor Ken Osmond, who played obsequious troublemaker Eddie Haskell on TV’s Leave It to Beaver has died, his manager confirms. “He was an incredibly kind and wonderful father,” his son, Eric, said in a statement. “He had his family gathered around him when he passed.
He was loved and will be very missed.” Osmond was 76. The impact of his most famous performance can be measured by the fact that, for those of us of a certain age, if someone is described as an “Eddie Haskell”-type, we know exactly what is meant.
The Haskell character was a troublemaking friend of Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s older brother. The actor revisited his most famous role frequently over the years in the many subsequent iterations of the show,
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