Biography
Tony Dow is best remembered for playing Wally Cleaver, the clean-cut and much wiser older brother of Beaver on the classic family sitcom
Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963). Since the show's demise, he has appeared sporadically in a couple feature films and in a few television movies. He reprised the role of Wally in the 1980s in the made-for-TV reunion film
Still the Beaver (1983) and in the series it spawned. In 1965, Dow starred in the short-lived series
Never Too Young. After a final feature-film appearance as a judge in the good-natured, nostalgic spoof of the
Beach Party movies
Back to the Beach (1987), Dow disappeared for a few years and then re-emerged as a director of television episodes for such series as
Babylon 5 (1993) and as a producer of films such as It Came From Outer Space II (1996). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide