Jerry Mathers

Jerry Mathers fascinates me less as the child star of Leave It to Beaver than as the adult he chose to become. So many kid actors get trapped by an iconic role, yet Mathers walked off into UC Berkeley and a life as an entrepreneur. To me that is the more interesting story: a boy who embodied an entire generation's image of suburban innocence, then quietly refused to let nostalgia define the rest of his life. I respect performers who treat early fame as a foundation rather than a ceiling, and Mathers reads as exactly that kind of grounded, sensible survivor.

Gerald Patrick Mathers (born June 2, 1948) is an American former actor best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963. He played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont, respectively) and the younger brother of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow).

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Name (English)

Jerry Mathers

Name (Japanese)

ジェリー・メイザース

Reading

じぇりー・めいざーす

Born

June 2, 1948 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Sioux City, Iowa, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

actor / entrepreneur / television actor / model / stage actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Notre Dame High School

University

University of California, Berkeley

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.jerrymathers.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Mathers

Tags

• Iowa
• actor
• entrepreneur
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.