'Leave It to Beaver' star Jerry Mathers reveals why he was ready to leave hit '50s sitcom
foxnews.comJerry Mathers was ready to give Hollywood a break after "Leave It to Beaver." The former child star famously played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the hit sitcom from 1957 to 1963.The actor was just a teen when he found himself out of a job once the series came to an end.
But life, he said, was blissful when cameras stopped rolling. "It ended at the right time for me," the 74-year-old told Fox News Digital. "I wanted to play sports and of course, working at the studio, that wasn’t something I was able to do.
I was [now] able to be on the track team and football team.That was something I really wanted to do. And it was nice being in [a normal school].
I had a private tutor for the whole time that I was on the show. Now I was at a regular school, and it was a lot of fun. And I made a lot of good friends." The close-knit cast and crew were also ready to move on, he noted. "Not that we were tired of it, but it was a lot of work," Mathers admitted. "We had to be at the studio every day at 8 o’clock, work till 5.
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