Anthony "Tony" Lee Dow (born
April 13,
1945 in
Hollywood,
California), is an
American film producer,
director,
sculptor, and a
TV child actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
Dow is best known for his role in the television
sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which ran in
primetime from 1957 to 1963 and in which he played
Wallace "Wally" Cleaver, the older son of
June and
Ward Cleaver (
Barbara Billingsley and
Hugh Beaumont), and the brother of
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (
Jerry Mathers).