Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Mystery actor

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Leave your guesses in the comments. I’ll be on and off one device or another this morning and will drop a hint when I can if one is needed.

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No hint necessary: the answer is now in the comments.

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comments: 4

ksh said...

Ken Osmond, aka Edward Clark Haskell?

Michael Leddy said...

That’s him. This appearance is pre-Leave It to Beaver, in the Lassie episode “The Rival” (1955). He’s a nameless kid teasing Jeff Miller about the orchid he’s delivering to Jeff’s mom Ellen. (She has a date, and Jeff doesn’t like that.) In a 1959 episode, “The Cub Scout,” he’s a city kid who scorns the Scouts and ends up causing a forest fire. Typecast from the start. He’s also in a 1967 episode (post-Jeff, post-Timmy), “A Matter of Seconds,” as a nice guy, a messenger on a motorcycle. So he’s delivering things in his first and last Lassie appearances.

Elaine Fine said...

Got it immediately!

Michael Leddy said...

Elaine, your second-place prize is watching all three Ken Osmond episodes. We can decide on a time later.