#EDDIE HASKELL MOVIE#

Two slugs were stopped by the vest and a third ricocheted off his bet buckle, according to a 1988 Los Angeles Times report. In 1980, he was shot in the chest while chasing a suspected car thief and wearing a bulletproof vest. Osmond was a member of the LAPD from 1970-1988 and survived two shooting incidents during his career. 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.”ĭow, who was a lifelong friend of Osmond’s said “His motorcycle cop stories are terrific.” It’s a death sentence,” Osmond told radio host Stu Stoshak in a 2008 interview on “Stu’s Show.” “I’m not complaining because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. Osmond also reprised his best-known role in a 1983 reboot called “The New Leave It to Beaver” with other members of the original cast, as well as for the feature “Leave It to Beaver” in 1997.

When the run of “Leave It to Beaver” ended, Osmond joined the Army and later picked up some roles on popular shows like “Petticoat Junction” and “The Munsters.”

Osmond landed his first speaking role at age 9 in the film “So Big,” starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden.

#EDDIE HASKELL MOVIE#

Classic.”Ĭrowe added that he ‘always dreamed Jeff Spicoli was a distant relative of the Haskells,” referring to the stoner surfer character played by Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” based on Crowe’s book and screenplay.īorn in Glendale, Osmond made his film debut with his brother Dayton as a child extra in “Plymouth Adventure,” starring Spencer Tracy, according to his biography on the Internet Movie Database at. Ken Osmond destroyed every scene, and when the show was over, he dropped the mic to become a cop. Writer-director Cameron Crowe (“Almost Famous,” “Jerry McGuire”) posted an autographed photo that Osmond personalized for him and tweeted: “Eddie Haskell is one of the greatest characters ever. “He was one of the few guys on the show who really played a character and created it,” Dow added, chuckling as he mimicked the evil laugh Osmond would unleash when his character was launching one nefarious scheme or another and trying to pull Wally and his younger brother Beaver into it. “He was a terrific guy, he was a terrific actor and his character is probably one that will last forever,” Tony Dow, who played Wally, told The Associated Press on Monday. Osmond played the iconic character of Eddie Haskell - a scheming friend of Beaver’s older brother Wally who always sweet-talked Mr.

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