His mother, Muriel Montrose, was a stunt woman in early Westerns, Clara Bow‘s double and a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty.

Son Christopher Dow, with Carol Marlow, born March 26, 1973.

Joined the US Army National Guard in 1965.

Was a junior Olympics diving champion.

In the 70s he attended journalism school while working in contracting and construction.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he re-teamed with his Leave It to Beaver (1957) co-star Jerry Mathers and performed in dinner theatres.

Involved in building luxury condominiums.

Is a modern-art sculptor and represented exclusively by Karen Lynne Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, USA. One of his bronze pieces was on display in the backyard garden of his one-time TV mom Barbara Billingsley. Now a grandfather, he and his wife Lauren lived close to Billingsley before her 2010 death at age ninety-four.

In 2007 the 62-year-old Dow, the 59-year-old Jerry Mathers and 91-year-old Barbara Billingsley celebrated the 50th anniversary of Leave It to Beaver (1957) by reuniting and inaugurating the 24-hour TV-Land marathon.

One of his bronze sculptures was accepted at 2008’s Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, a 150-year-old art show staged annually at the Louvre in Paris, France.

His acting mentor was the late Barbara Billingsley.

Best known by the public for his role as Wallace “Wally” Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957).

Topanga Canyon, California: living and working as a sculptor. [September 2012]

He has played the same character (Wally Cleaver) on three different series: Leave It to Beaver (1957), The Love Boat (1977) and The New Leave It to Beaver (1983).

Profiled in the 2016 book “X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?” by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.

Appeared in the The Kentucky Fried Movie as Wally, based on his character Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver.

Appeared as a witness in a case in the 1980s version of The People’s Court.

In May 2022 it was revealed his cancer returned.

[I tried to find a human interest story on some small blog about Tony, but to no avail. Google search is obsessed right now with, “Tony Dow not dead!” stories. His wife had thought he passed, but nurses said otherwise. What these stories are is a testament to though, is how 60 years after the Leave It To Beaver series ended, the public still has a warm spot in their heart for him. Who knows why ‘magic’ happens on a television series? But it most definitely did with Leave It To Beaver. I’ve wondered about that a lot over the years. I’ve always been a fan and a student of retrospective art and entertainment. Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, Make Room For Daddy, none of them had the generational appeal of Leave It To Beaver. Not even close. None of those shows have the cultural references or fondness from the public. 6 seasons. Each season the opening credits had the same theme song, it just increased the tempo ever so slightly. By the final season (62-63) it was quite the jazzy little number. It covered an interesting time period, fall of ’57 to spring of ’63. Times they were a changing. I consider the ’50’s’ as old America. Nothing wrong with that. 1963 (before November 22 of that year) was a country full of hope and optimism. JFK, a gang-busters economy, America made things, hadn’t been defeated in Vietnam yet (in fact Kennedy was in the process of withdrawal), Mercury and Gemini rockets were going into space, we had the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, we had the best looking women and the strongest men. America was riding high in that period, and I kind of think Leave It To Beaver exemplified what was best with television and America. Not cheap, not exploitational, not pointless. A lot of times over the years some critics tried to imply that Leave It To Beaver didn’t tackle the tough issues. They didn’t wallow in the gutter 24/7 like a lot of TV today does, but they covered the tough issues. Alcoholism, divorce, class differences, race issues. The benefits of honesty, hard work, thriftiness, determination. Ideas at one time that the entire country embraced. We weren’t kidding ourselves believing that we hit those goals every time, but it was something we tried for. You lay that agenda out today you’d be laughed off the stage. Look at Trump. That’s essentially the platform he laid out in 2016. That day’s never coming back. These days we mutilate poor children under the agenda of ‘gender identity’, and dress up a man (?) as a woman and call him ‘trans’. We’re begging God to remove His hand from this nation. And I pretty much think He has. But as to the idea I posed earlier of why this show had ‘magic’, and most shows don’t? All I can come up with is that they got everything ‘right’. Actors you could empathize with. Topnotch writing. Quality directors, crew. Who knows?]