Hugh Beaumont

Age: 73 (passed away May. 14th, 1982)
Height: 6'

Birth Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Born: Feb. 16th, 1909

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Hugh Beaumont's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Leave It to Beaver	Ward Cleaver
My Friend Flicka	Simmons
General Electric Summer Originals	Mike Hercules

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Beaumont began his career in show business by perfoming in theatres, nightclubs, and on the radio in 1931. He attended the University of Chattanooga, but left when his position on the football team was changed. He later attended the University of Southern California, and graduated with a Master of Theology degree in 1946. He was visiting his son Hunter, a Psychology Professor in Munich, at the time of his sudden death.

TRIVIA:

Appeared on the sly in educational and industrial films as both an actor and narrator.
Attended and played football at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee, but left when his position on the football team was changed. He later attended the University of Southern California (USC), and graduated with a Master of Theology degree.
In Hollywood from 1940, he rose quickly up the ranks while many of the big stars were serving WWII duty (Hugh was a conscientious objector). His mild resemblance to actor 'Lloyd Nolan' (qv) enabled Beaumont to inherit Nolan's leading movie persona of detective Michael Shayne in a series of "B" crimers. After the war he returned primarily to supporting roles in film.
Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Also writing and directing several episodes of his famous series _"Leave It to Beaver" (1957)_ (qv), including the final, retrospective episode, "Family Scrapbook", his portrayal of Ward Cleaver ranked #28 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" in the June 20, 2004, issue.
Spent much of his later years growing Christmas trees on Balgillo Island, which he owned, in northern Minnesota.
The son of Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, he was of French descent and was born with a very rare blood type, reportedly shared only with the Hapsburg royal family.
After suffering his 1972 stroke, he was told by doctors that he would never walk or talk again, but he proved otherwise and recovered enough to do some directing and community theater work.

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