Jerry Mathers’s net worth is $4 million. The 75 year-old native of Sioux City, Iowa, made money from his career in the entertainment business. They include acting, stage production, music, and writing. He also had some interest in the banking and real estate industries.
Key Facts
Net Worth: $4 Million
Date of Birth: Jun 2, 1948 (75 years old)
Place of Birth: Sioux City
Gender: Male
Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m)
Profession: Actor
Nationality: United States of America
How Much is Jerry Mathers’s Net Worth?
Jerry Mathers has a net worth of $4 million, according to a recent estimation of the actor’s fortune. He is speculated to be earning $40k as his monthly salary, but the actor rakes in an admirable $1 million on an annual basis.
How Did Jerry Mathers’s Net Worth Accumulate?
As an entertainer, Jerry is quite versatile. He created and developed multiple income streams that have continued to generate revenue for him to date.
He gained popularity as a TV and movie actor with a smattering of gigs in stage productions. Jerry has also appeared in commercials and worked as a model. He dabbled into music and DJed at some point in his entertainment career.
Away from showbiz, the Leave it to Beaver actor has tried his hands at banking and real estate.
His Career Started in Modeling and Commercials
Jerry Mathers was barely out of diapers when he launched his showbiz career at the age of two. He became a child model when a departmental store hired his services for their ads.
Later in life, the juvenile model did a commercial for the company known as Pet Milk.
Jerry Mathers Dabbled in Music in High School
While he was in high school, Jerry Mathers had a band called Beaver and the Trappers in reminiscence of his juvenile breakout role. The singer ended up recording only two songs – Wind-Up Toy and Don’t Cha Cry in 1962.
From Modeling, He went into Acting
It was in 1952 that a four-year-old Jerry Mathers debuted on the acting scene, breathing life into the character of Child at Finale in an uncredited role on the set of Son of Paleface. His first credited role was playing a Trick Or Treating Child in the television series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, also in 1952.
After making appearances in several other productions, Jerry started scoring the roles that saw his emergence into the limelight. Acting as Arnie Rogers in the 1955 movie The Trouble with Harry served as his big break. The year 1956 announced him to a wider audience in the movie, That Certain Feeling, as Norman Taylor.
Jerry Mathers Scored his most popular role in 1957 as part of the cast of the television series, Leave It to Beaver, portraying the role of The Beaver, Theodore Cleaver; the role lasted for six long years, wrapping up in 1963. Another of the actor’s best-known roles was seen in the television series, The Love Boat as Beaver Cleaver in 1987.
Jerry Mathers Worked as a DJ in 1981
The radio station KEYZ located in Anaheim, California, hired Mathers’ services as a DJ. The details of this particular job are not known, but reports said it was very brief.
Jerry Mathers has One Writing Credit
The only writing credit for Jerry is his autobiography which hit the book stands in 1989. The book, which was titled “And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver,” was published by Putnam Publishing. Interested readers can get paperbacks of this book on Amazon, there is also a digital version on Goodreads.
Jerry Earned a Few Digits of his Fortune in Stage Production
At the Neil Simon Theater in 2007, Jerry made his Broadway debut in the Tony-winning musical entitled “Hairspray,” starring as Wilbur Turnblad.
Prior to this, in 1978, Mathers collaborated with his on-screen sibling, Tony Dow, to sell out a ten-week run of the drama known as Boeing, Boeing, in Kansas City. Headlining another stage production, “So Long, Stanley,” the onscreen brothers proceeded on a national tour that lasted till 1980.
He Recorded a Stint in Banking and Real Estate after College Graduation
After he completed his degree from the University of California in Berkeley, Jerry Mathers
Joined the banking industry, where he served as a commercial loan officer, but the name of the financial institution that employed him is not known. From banking, he delved into real estate as a property broker. At this, he decided to invest his savings from acting, and the investment has been compensating him with $500 on a weekly basis.
Jerry is a Businessman
Towards the end of the 1990s, Jerry launched his own catering business known as Cleaver’s Catering. The company is located in Sta. Clarita, California, and it provides movie and television outfits with catering services.
According to the Leave it to Beaver actor, he also runs computer businesses, including wide-format printing.
Was Jerry Mathers in the Military?
Jerry Mathers was barely through high school when he got enlisted in the US Air Force Reserve in 1966. He continued with the military after graduation, ending up with the rank of sergeant
What is the Biggest Contributor to Jerry Mathers’ Net Worth?
Acting is believed to be Jerry Mathers’ biggest source of revenue, and the actor made the biggest income from his role in Leave it to Beaver. As the Beaver Cleaver, Jerry was cast as June and Ward Cleaver’s young son and a brother to WallyCleaver (depicted by Tony Dow).
Leave it to Beaver became Jerry’s longest-running TV series as he recorded appearances in all its 234 episodes from inception to wrap-up. Needless to say, the series paid him the highest money he earned from the acting scene. The producers of the show did not only pay the then-juvenile actor for his acting gig, but he also struck a lucrative deal that saw him get a percentage of its merchandising revenue.
What’s more, Leave it to Beaver was not only popular in the US, but it also aired in over 80 countries of the world and was translated into 40 distinct languages. This did not just mean more revenue for Jerry Mathers, it also widened his horizon in the world of showbiz.
The wrap-up of Leave it to Beaver only announced the premiere of its sequel entitled The New Leave It to Beaver, where Jerry earned a generous weekly remuneration of $45,000 for reprising his Beaver Cleaver role. This was aired in 101 episodes which lasted for almost five years. When you consider Jerry’s weekly income of $40k, it is sure to come to a huge sum.
Most of the old cast of Leave it to Beaver also came back together for a television reunion movie which was named Still the Beaver, another money spinner for Jerry Mathers.
