LOS ANGELES -- Ken Osmond from TV's "Leave It to Beaver" died Monday at the age of 76.
Osmond played two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell, a role so memorable it left him typecast and led to a second career as a police officer.
His family did not identify a cause of death.
Son Eric Osmond says his dad was an incredibly kind and wonderful father.
Ken Osmond's Eddie Haskell stood out among many memorable characters on the classic family sitcom "Leave it to Beaver," which ran from 1957 to 1963 on CBS and ABC, but had a decades-long life of reruns and revivals.
Eddie was the best friend of Tony Dow's Wally Cleaver, big brother to Jerry Mathers' Beaver Cleaver.
He was the closest thing the wholesome show had to a villain, and viewers of all ages loved to hate him.
Dow calls Osmond a terrific guy whose character is probably one that will last forever.
Osmond got his first role at age four, working in commercials and as a film extra, and got his first speaking role at nine, appearing mostly in small guest parts on TV series.
The role of Eddie in season one of "Leave It to Beaver" was also supposed to be a one-off guest appearance, but the show's producers and its audience found him so memorable he became a regular, appearing in nearly 100 of the show's 234 episodes.
