Princewill Pius
Ken Osmond was a family man, doing whatever he could to support his family. It’s why he left acting, telling radio host Stu Shostak in an interview (via The Los Angeles Times), “It’s a death sentence. In Hollywood, you get typecast. I’m not complaining because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. 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.”
Osmond’s hard work paid off, as he had amassed $1.5 million in the bank, per Celebrity Net Worth. Some of Osmond’s accomplishments include his 2014 memoir, Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy, and reprising his role of Eddie for the made-for-television movie, Still the Beaver. The film led to the sitcom, The New Leave It to Beaver, which ran from 1984 to 1989. It followed the lives of Wally, Eddie, and Theodore as adults with families of their own. Osmond’s real-life sons played his kids on the series.
Osmond was proud of how his life turned out, stating, per THR, “So much of the industry, you read about ex-child actors who got into dope, or he was arrested trying to rob a liquor store. You’ve never read anything about anyone associated with Leave It to Beaver in a negative light. We just had a real family.”
Written by: Nicki
