Actor Ken Osmond, known for playing weaselly, two-faced suck-up Eddie Haskell on the classic sitcom 'Leave It to Beaver,' has died, according to his son Eric
"In the industry, that's an absolute death sentence," he said. "I would walk into a casting office and all they could see was Eddie. I couldn't get work to save my soul. I had a few minor parts here and there, but nothing that's going to sustain a life and a salary."
Osmond worked as a helicopter pilot and studio propmaker before joining the LAPD, bulking up on milk shakes and bananas to make the minimum weight to qualify for the job. In 1980, he and his partner were on motorcycle patrol for drunken drivers when they came upon a stolen taxi driven by Albert Cunningham. Following a crash and a chase on foot, Cunningham shot Osmond; his bulletproof vest stopped two bullets, and a third was deflected by his belt buckle.
"I saw a flash of light and the next thing I knew, I was flat on my back on the sidewalk, 10 to 15 feet away," Osmond testified during the penalty phase of Cunningham's murder trial in 1988. "I was not able to move. I thought I was dying." He said the shooting led to clinical depression., and that spawned , which aired for four seasons on the Disney Channel and TBS. "As an adult, I could appreciate the industry so much more, he said. It was wonderful.
His character, now a shady contractor, appeared on all 101 episodes of the new show, and his two boys were played by his real-life sons, Eric and Christian. "They're great kids, never get in any trouble like Eddie did," he said in 1989. and on the sitcoms When Alice Cooper once said he was "Eddie Haskell as a child" — meaning that's how he behaved — that got some to think that it was the rock star who had starred on .
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