Editing Leave It to Beaver (section)

==Cast==
[[File:Cleaver family Leave it to Beaver 1960.JPG|thumb|upright=1|The Cleaver family]]
===Main characters===
* [[Barbara Billingsley]] as [[June Cleaver]]: Billingsley has said that June Cleaver's wardrobe was more than a fashion statement.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} The pearl necklace hid a hollow (caused by a surgical scar) in her neck that would have caused shadows<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=4369353&ch=61492&src=news |title=GMA Time Machine - "Leave It to Beaver" is 50 (5 min. 36 sec. video clip)|publisher=ABC News |date=October 4, 2007}}</ref> and [[high-heeled shoe]]s were employed to offset the boys' growing height.
* [[Hugh Beaumont]] as [[Ward Cleaver]]: Before he made Ward Cleaver his acting trademark, Beaumont sometimes played villains in film and television. He directed a number of ''Leave It to Beaver'' episodes in the last two seasons, including the final one, the retrospective "[[Family Scrapbook]]".
* [[Tony Dow]] as [[Wally Cleaver]]
* [[Jerry Mathers]] as [[Theodore Cleaver|Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver]]: The casting directors noticed that Mathers was uneasy at the auditions and asked him where he would rather be. Mathers replied that he would rather be at his [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scout]] den meeting, where he was going after the audition. That boyish innocence got Mathers the part of Beaver.<ref name="Mathers PARADE"/>

===Supporting characters===
* [[Ken Osmond]] as [[Eddie Haskell]]
* Eddie Haskell's parents played by:
** [[Karl Swenson]] in two 1958 episodes, "Train Trip" and "Voodoo Magic".
** [[Ann Doran]] in the 1958 episode "Voodoo Magic".
** [[John Alvin (actor)|John Alvin]] in the 1961 episode "Eddie Spents the Night".
** [[Anne Barton (actress)|Anne Barton]] in two 1963 episodes, "Summer in Alaska" and "The Credit Card".
** [[George O. Petrie]] in two 1963 episodes, "Summer in Alaska" and "The Credit Card".
* [[Diane Brewster]] as Miss Canfield (October 4, 1957{{snd}}March 21, 1958 air dates), Beaver's first teacher at Grant Avenue Grammar School. Brewster also played Miss Simms in the pilot episode.
* [[Sue Randall]] as Miss Alice Landers (October 16, 1958{{snd}}June 20, 1963), Beaver's teacher, replacing Miss Canfield
* [[Doris Packer]] as Mrs. Rayburn, the [[Principal (school)|principal]] of Grant Avenue Grammar School
* [[Stephen Talbot]] as Gilbert Bates (March 19, 1959{{snd}}June 6, 1963): Appears first as an insecure braggart, becomes a character who constantly gets Beaver in trouble, and ends up as Beaver's best friend.
* [[Rusty Stevens]] as [[Larry Mondello]] (November 22, 1957{{snd}}1960)
* [[Madge Blake]] as Margaret Mondello, Larry's mother
* [[Richard Correll]] as Richard Rickover (April 30, 1960{{snd}}October 18, 1962)
* [[Stanley Fafara]] as Hubert "Whitey" Whitney (October 4, 1957{{snd}}June 6, 1963)
* [[Jeri Weil]] as Judy Hensler (October 4, 1957{{snd}}October 15, 1960)
* [[Burt Mustin]] as Gus the fireman, head of Auxiliary Firehouse No. 7 (October 4, 1957{{snd}}February 24, 1962)
* [[Frank Bank]] as [[Clarence Rutherford|Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford]]
* [[Richard Deacon (actor)|Richard Deacon]] as [[Fred Rutherford]], Lumpy's pompous, demanding father and Ward Cleaver's equally pompous, smug co-worker
* [[Buddy Hart]] as Chester Anderson
* [[Tiger Fafara]] (Stanley Fafara's brother) as Tooey Brown, Wally's friend
* [[Pamela Baird]] as Mary Ellen Rogers (April 16, 1958{{snd}}June 20, 1963), Wally's first girlfriend
* [[Cheryl Holdridge]] as Julie Foster (January 7, 1961{{snd}}April 11, 1963), another of Wally's girlfriends