My deepest condolences to Frank's family,' Mathers, 64, posted on his Facebook page. He was a character and always kept us laughing. 'I was so sad to hear today of the passing of my dear friend and business associate Frank Bank, who played Lumpy on Leave It to Beaver. Ken Osmond starred as Wally's wise-guy friend Eddie Haskell. It starred Jerry Mathers as Beaver Cleaver, Barbara Billingsley as his perpetually pearl-wearing mother, June, and Hugh Beaumont as his wise but often-clueless father, Ward. No cause of death was given.Īnyone who grew up in the late 1950s remembers Leave It to Beaver. He didn't have Wally Cleaver's good looks, Eddie Haskell's conniving personality nor Beaver Cleaver's penchant for getting into trouble, but Lumpy Rutherford will always be remembered as one of TV sitcoms' first stereotypical bullies.įrank Bank, who played the plump, troublemaking Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford on the popular series Leave It to Beaver, which aired from 1957 to 1963, died Saturday, a day after he turned 71. When Wally is notified that the State College scholarship he applied for went to Lumpy Rutherford instead, he graciously throws a party to celebrate with his friend and secretly helps out after Lumpy gets disappointing news. With Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers. Actor Frank Bank died this morning, one day after he turned 71. Lumpys Scholarship: Directed by Hugh Beaumont.

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