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Frank Bank was an actor best known for the role of Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford, a sometime bully on the television comedy Leave It to Beaver.
A friend and occasional antagonist of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and his younger brother Beaver (Jerry Mathers), Lumpy appeared in some 50 episodes of the show. In some cases, he was the focal point, as in episodes with titles such as “Lumpy’s Scholarship,” “Lumpy’s Car Trouble” and “Wally Stays at Lumpy’s.”
Frank Bank was an actor best known for the role of Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford, a sometime bully on the television comedy Leave It to Beaver.
A friend and occasional antagonist of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and his younger brother Beaver (Jerry Mathers), Lumpy appeared in some 50 episodes of the show. In some cases, he was the focal point, as in episodes with titles such as “Lumpy’s Scholarship,” “Lumpy’s Car Trouble” and “Wally Stays at Lumpy’s.”
Prior to Leave It to Beaver, Bank had roles in such TV series as The Ford Television Theatre, Father Knows Best and Bachelor Father.
When Beaver ended, Bank withdrew from entertainment and became a securities trader. However, in later years he reprised the role off Lumpy in The New Leave It to Beaver series, and appeared in the 1983 made-for-TV movie High School U.S.A., along with Tony Dow and other former child and adolescent television stars.
Bank died April 13, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 71.
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