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They wanted him to reprise his Larry Mondello role for the CBS TV reunion movie, twenty years after the original show went off the air. In fact, he kept such a low profile that, according to, the creators of Still the Beaver (1983) hired a detective to locate him. He played a boy named Melvin in the episode.Īfter his appearance on The Rifleman, Rusty seemed to drop out of sight.

His harried mother, Margaret Mondello (Madge Blake), was full of anxiety from having to deal with Larry alone.ĭuring the early 1960s, after his departure from Leave it to Beaver, Rusty made guest-appearances on TV series such as Angel (1960), National Velvet (1961) My Three Sons (1962), Perry Mason (1962), Wagon Train (1963) and The Rifleman (1963).īelow is a photo of Rusty in a 1963 episode of The Rifleman entitled 'Hostages to Fortune' (Season 5, Episode 18, Air Date: February 4, 1963). His father was always out of town and never around to give him any guidance. Larry was not too bright and he didn't have an ideal home life. His first appearance occurred in an episode entitled 'Beaver's Crush' (Season 1, Episode 8, Air Date: November 22, 1957). From 1957 until 1960, Rusty appeared as Larry Mondello in 67 of Leave it to Beaver's 235 episodes (68 if you include the last episode in which he appeared in flashback. He began acting after moving with his parents to Burbank.

Robert 'Rusty' Stevens was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Decem(some sources say November 25). Because his mother was such a pain.' She went on to say that his overbearing mother would go to the producer's office and make demands. And, unfortunately they had to let him go.

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However, Barbara Billingsley, who played 'June Cleaver,' shed a different light on Rusty's departure, In a July 2000 interview with the Archive of American television, Barbara stated, 'We all loved Rusty so much. It has been reported that Rusty's father took a job out of state and that his family moved from Burbank, California to Philadelphia.