Jerry Mathers (b. 1948) is an actor best known for playing Beaver Cleaver on the TV series Leave It to Beaver from 1957 to 1963, and on the 1980s revival series The New Leave It to Beaver.

In 2005, Mathers appeared with Miss Piggy during her award ceremony at the Pier del Sol event in California.

Before his signature role, Mathers appeared on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, had a featured role in 1955 as Shirley MacLaine's son in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (with John Forsythe), and appeared the following year in That Certain Feeling (with Bob Hope and Pearl Bailey).

After Leave It to Beaver, Mathers guest starred on Batman, Lassie, and My Three Sons. Later roles were mostly limited to collective nostalgia cameos or otherwise spoofing his Beaver persona on The Love Boat (actually as Beaver), Hardcastle and McCormick, Married... with Children, opposite TV mom Barbara Billingsley on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and with TV brother Tony Dow in the 1987 movie Back to the Beach (with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello) and on Diagnosis Murder.

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