Tony DowFilmography

Born:: April 13, 1945 in Hollywood, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer
Biography:: Tony Dow is best remembered for playing Wally Cleaver, the clean-cut and much wiser older brother of Beaver on the classic family sitcom Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963). Since the show's demise, he has appeared sporadically in a couple feature films and in a few television movies. He reprised the...Read More

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This Is Roller Skating and Other Odd Rarities

Synopsis: This Is Roller Skating and Other Odd Rarities collects a number of unusual, rarely seen shorts from the fifties and sixties. In addition to the piece mentioned in the title, this collection includes Science and Garden, and The Noisy Landscape. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Child Stars: Their Story

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Co-producers and former TV child stars Tony Dow of Leave It to Beaver and Melissa Gilbert of Little House on the Prairie are among those who take part in this video's panel discussion about the advantages and pitfalls of spending all or part of one's childhood as a television or movie star. Other Read More

2000
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 163: Field of Fire

Crew: Director

1999
Babylon 5: A Tragedy of Telepaths

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: The already strained relationship between the Alliance and Byron's telepaths break down completely, forcing Lochley to seek the aid of Psi Cop Bester. The mysterious attacks on the Alliance ships intensify. And deep within the bowels of the Centauri palace, Londo and G'Kar stumble upon an old Read More

1998
Babylon 5: Secrets of the Soul

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Dr. Franklyn tries to find out the secret behind the medical history of the Hyach. Telepaths Byron and Lyta reach a tentative understanding. And tensions mount between Downbelow and the rest of Babylon 5. In addition to the usual plot complications, this episode also includes subtle echoes of Read More

1998
Babylon 5: Atonement

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Delenn returns to her home world of Minbar, hoping to convince the people to accept her relationship with Captain Sheridan. Upon arrival, she is required to undergo The Dreaming, a ritual that literally burrows into her soul. And in another development, Marcus and Franklin are sent to Mars, there Read More

1997
Babylon 5: Moments of Transition

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Warrior leader Shakiri (Bart McCarthy) intensifies his aggression in the Minbari civil war. Hoping to resolve the crisis, Delenn prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice. And Psi Cop Bester (Walter Koening) tries to strike up an unusual bargain with telepath Lyta. Scott Adams, creator of the comic Read More

1997
Babylon 5: Rising Star

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: President Clark is dead, and the civil war on Earth is over. Delenn triumphantly stage-manages the convergence of the Earth, the Minbari and the Narn into a new alliance. Captain Sheridan's role in the Alliance must, however, wait until the Earthgov decides his ultimate fate. Elsewhere, Ivanova Read More

1997
It Came from Outer Space 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Lauren Tewes, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Alien invaders descend upon a peaceful desert community and take over the minds and bodies of the residents. Now only a brave photographer can save them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Still the Beaver, Vol. 2

Synopsis: This video contains a pair of episodes from the '80s television show that chronicled the adult exploits of the formerly irascible '50s icon of childhood innocence, Beaver Cleaver and his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Still the Beaver, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This video contains a pair of episodes from the '80s television show that chronicled the adult exploits of the formerly irascible '50s icon of childhood innocence, Beaver Cleaver and his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Back to the Beach

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Connie Stevens, Lori Loughlin, Tommy Hinkley

Synopsis: Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello not only starred in the delightfully "retro" Back to the Beach, but also served as executive producers. Appropriately set 25 years after such drive-in faves as Beach Blanket Bingo, the film finds Frankie and Annette as husband and wife, living far from the surf Read More

8/7/87
Murder, She Wrote: Crossed Up

Synopsis: Murder She Wrote meets "Sorry Wrong Number" in this chilling episode, set on a dark and stormy night. When the storm causes the telephone wires to get crossed, several persons receive calls that they shouldn't be hearing. One such person is Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who is stuck in her Read More

1987
High School USA

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox is among the young sitcom stars enlisted for this made-for-TV teen film, about a battle between the rich, popular kids and their average counterparts. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Quincy, M.E.: Suffer the Little Children

Synopsis: After the mysterious death of seven-year-old Christopher Reano, Quincy (Jack Klugman) checks into reports that a foster group home called Green Springs is endangering its charges with brutal treatment and unsanitary conditions. Pediatrician Dr. Curtis (played by former Leave It to Beaver cotar Read More

1983
Still the Beaver

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers

Synopsis: Perhaps it's a blessing that old Ward Cleaver didn't live to see how his son Beaver (Jerry Mathers) turned out. Now in his mid-30s, the Beav is divorced, out of work, and living in his mother's house with his two children. Beaver's brother Wally, also married, is doing rather better, but his Read More

1983
The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Actors: Ana Alicia, David Faustino, Jeremy Licht, Ray Sharkey, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The Ordeal of Bill Carney is a TV movie inspired by a landmark court decision. Ray Sharkey plays Carney, an Army reservist whose spine is damaged in a jeep accident. Left a quadriplegic, Carney loses custody of his two children to ex-wife Betty Buckley. Despite the concerted efforts of the Read More

1981
The Kentucky Fried Movie

Actors: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Read More

1977
Death Scream

Synopsis: The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder and stirs up the guilt Read More

1975
A Great American Tragedy

Synopsis: The Great American Tragedy is a melodrama about an aerospace engineer and his family who struggle to survive after he suddenly loses his job. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Emergency!: Brushfire

Synopsis: A fast-spreading wildfire impedes the efforts of the Rampart emergency staff to save an elderly woman suffering from dehydration, a seriously injured looter, and one of their own firemen trapped under a fallen tree. Further complications ensue from an emergency birth procedure in which the mother Read More

1972
Adam-12: Log 65: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) try to break up a gang of auto thieves who use pretty, miniskirted girls as decoys for unwary male drivers. Elsewhere, the two cops are summoned to a teenage pot party (this is, after all, a Jack Webb) production. And in another Read More

1970
Leave It to Beaver: Season 06

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Moving from Saturdays to Thursdays for its sixth and final season, Leave It to Beaver acknowledges the fact that both Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) and his brother Wally (Tony Dow) are now teenagers by reorchestrating the series' familiar theme music in emulation of a rock & roll beat. Also Read More

1962
Leave It to Beaver: Season 05

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: As Leave It to Beaver enters its fifth season, Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) has somehow been promoted to the sixth grade, while brother Wally (Tony Dow) is a junior in high school. Perhaps sensing that Beaver had outgrown his natural cuteness, the producers contrived to build several of the Read More

1961
Leave It to Beaver: Season 04

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Still securely ensconced in a Saturday-night time slot, Leave It to Beaver satisfies its ever-growing fan base with 39 new episodes in its fourth season on the air. Joining the familiar cast of regulars is child actor Richard Correll as Beaver's new pal Richard, a replacement of sorts for the Read More

1960
Leave It to Beaver: Season 03

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Another 39 terrific episodes are served up in Leave It to Beaver's third season, which when originally telecast on ABC were seen in the series' brand-new Saturday evening time slot. The first offering is "Blind Date Committee," another thrilling chapter in the love life of the now-14-year-old Read More

1959
Leave It to Beaver: Season 02

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Leave It to Beaver entered its second season in a new time slot (Thursdays rather than Fridays at 7:30 pm EST), a new network (ABC instead of CBS), and a new movie studio (Revue Productions had moved its base of operations from Republic to Universal). Things get off to a delightful start with Read More

1958
Leave It to Beaver [TV Series]

Actors: Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Ken Osmond

Synopsis: One of the undisputed classics of American television, the weekly, half-hour sitcom Leave It to Beaver was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who had risen to prominence as principal writers of the TV version of Amos 'n' Andy. Fulfilling their ambition to create a warm, credible sitcom about Read More

1957
Leave It to Beaver: Season 01

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow

Synopsis: The first season of Leave It to Beaver was originally telecast on CBS and seen in an early-Friday-evening slot. When first we meet that "lovable, spankable, unpredictable" Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers), he is all of seven years old, and his older brother Wally (Tony Dow) is a mere 12. The boys Read More

1957
Still the Beaver, Vol. 3