Barbara Billingsley

Frank Bank, who as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford served as the dim-witted foil to "Beaver" Cleaver and brother Wally on the classic TV comedy "Leave It to Beaver," died Saturday. He was 71. A spokesman for Hillside Memorial Park in Los Angeles confirmed...

The Barbara Billingsley I got to know through an interview in the early '90s was a lot closer to the jive talking mama of the “Airplane” movies than the pearl wearing June Cleaver of TV's iconic “Leave it to Beaver.” I was doing...

Her TV son Tony Dow gave Barbara Billingsley the perfect epitaph, calling her “America's Mom.” And “NBC Nightly News” used “America's Mom” to title it segment on her death today at age 94. Billingsley will always...

Barbara Billingsley, the actress embedded in the American consciousness as mom June Cleaver from the classic sitcom "Leave It to Beaver," died at her home in Santa Monica on Saturday. She was 94. Billingsley's portrayal of the quintessential stay-at-...

Why would Barbara Billingsley be considered America's favorite TV mom? Because she played the kind, caring mom on a show whose reruns stand up beautifully. Like “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Leave It to Beaver” had an unusual...

First June Cleaver, and now Howard Cunningham -- it's been a sad stretch for fans of the iconic American sitcom family. Tom Bosley, the actor best known as the "Happy Days" patriarch, died of heart failure Tuesday at a hospital......

Barbara Billingsley, whose character of June Cleaver on the 1950's TV sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" helped define motherhood for a generation of baby boomers, died Saturday at the age of 94.Her death was the result of a long illness and she died at her home...

We are sorry to note the death of actress Anne Francis, one of our favorite TV babes of, oh, half a century or so ago. Her signature character, Honey West, brought high style to a medium that had been more......

Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to Beaver," has died. She was 94. Spokeswoman Judy Twersky says Billingsley died early...

LOS ANGELES -- Actress Barbara Billingsley, most famous for her role as June Cleaver in "Leave it to Beaver," died Saturday at the age of 94. Billingsley suffered from rheumatoid disease. She died at her home in Santa Monica, according to family...

Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver, the quintessential 1950s sitcom mom on "Leave It to Beaver," and later did a memorable send-up of her white-bread image playing the "jive-talking" passenger in the hit comedy "Airplane!," has died. She was 94....