Jay North, who played the role of a young mischief manufacturer with the characteristic Cowlick blonde on the CBS comedy of 1959-63 Dennis threatis dead. He was 73 years old.
North died on Sunday at her home in Lake Butler, Florida, after years of fighting colon cancer, Jeannie Russell, who played Margaret Wade in her program, said The Hollywood Reporter. She called her her “brother of another world”.
On the gems screen ‘ Dennis threatBased on comics created by Hank Ketcham, North played the role of well -intentioned but annoying Dennis Mitchell, the only child of Henry (Herbert Anderson) and Alice (Gloria Henry). He often created Chaos for his retired neighbor George Wilson, then his brother, John Wilson (Gale Gordon).
(Joseph Kearns had played George, and after his death in 1962, Gordon was led to replace him).
North was 6 years old when he heard for the first time Dennis8 When the show was broadcast in October 1959 and almost 12 when the series was canceled after four seasons. However, it would be seen by millions of viewers over the years while the half-hour show has played in reruns and in syndication.
In an interview of 1993, North said that he was not unhappy to see Dennis threat End.
“Between the pressures of the company and Joe’s Dying, I became very serious, very morbid and very withdrawn from the world. I was the antithesis of the little child that I played in the television show,” he said.
North then played like any other unusual child in the MGM film Zebra in the kitchen (1965), directed by Ivan Tors, and played in front of Clint Walker in the adventure in India-Set Maya (1966), also for MGM.
He returned for a 1967-68 Maya Series for NBC and found that it was a very enriching experience, he said.
Only child, North was born in Los Angeles on August 3, 1951. He was 4 years old when his father, also Jay, left the family, and he never saw him. His mother, Dorothy, worked as secretary to Aftra.
Thanks to her mother, North appeared in the Kids television show Cartoon ExpressAnd it was there that he was spotted by the talent agent Hazel Macmillan. She did it on shows such as Wanted: Death or Living,, 77 Sunset And Sugar Before he was hired to Dennis threatWith her reddish reddish hair blond platinum.
While the series was in the air, North also appeared to be Dennis on The Donna Reed Show And Skelton’s red hour And in the 1960 musical film PepperWith Cantinflas.
Throughout, he said he was mistreated by his aunt, who was his tutor in the series. “If it took me more than one of one taken, I would be threatened and then struck,” he told Los Angeles Daily News in 1993.
“Even if a delay was not my fault, she would find a way to blame me and punish me. She was also very possessive and wasolated me from the rest of the casting. I couldn’t even have lunch with everyone. She made me eat it in the locker room by myself. ”
After Maya Series, North is graduated from Rexford Senior High School in Beverly Hills in 1969 and worked as a vocal actor in such shows such as Banana divides adventure time And The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.
In 1974, he played in the classified thriller The teacherWith Angel Tompkins, then served briefly in the American navy. In 1988, he was the victim of a news hoard who said he died in a doctor’s office.
More recently, North worked with Paul Petersen in the The Donna Reed Show The organization of the actor, a minor consideration, to help the old stars of childhood to manage real life; served as a correctional officer in Florida; And introduced himself in the 2003 film Dickie Roberts: former child star.
The survivors include his third wife, Cindy.
