Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as June and Ward Cleaver.
First appearance
"It's a Small World" (pilot episode) (April 23, 1957)
Last appearance
Leave It to Beaver (film adaptation, 1997)
Created by
Joe Connelly Bob Mosher
Portrayed by
Barbara Billingsley (television series) Janine Turner (1997 film adaptation)
In-universe information
Gender
Female
Occupation
Homemaker
Family
Theodore Bronson (father) Peggy (sister)
Spouse
Ward Cleaver (widowed)
Children
Wallace "Wally" Cleaver Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver
Relatives
Wilbur Bronson (uncle)
Martha Bronson (aunt)
Kip Cleaver (grandson)
Oliver Cleaver (grandson)
Kelly Cleaver (granddaughter)
Kevin Cleaver (grandson)
Unnamed niece
June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver is a principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. June and her husband, Ward, are often invoked as the archetypal suburban parents of the 1950s. The couple are the parents of two sons, Wally and "Beaver". Wally is twelve years old and in the seventh grade when the series opens; Beaver is seven years old ("almost eight") and in the second grade. Episodes followed the escapades of Wally and Beaver and usually ended with a moral lesson delivered to the boys, but also often included reminders of childhood and minor lessons for the parents through the adventures of their boys. She was included in Yahoo!'s Top 10 TV Moms from Six Decades of Television for the time period 1957–1963.[1]
June is played by Barbara Billingsley in both the pilot, "It's a Small World" (which aired in April 1957 on Studio '57), and in the original television series. Billingsley also plays the character in the show's television reunion movie, Still the Beaver (1983), and the show's sequel series, The New Leave It to Beaver (1985—1989). In the sequel series, Wally and Beaver are both parents, and June is a grandmother. Janine Turner played June in the 1997 spin-off film adaptation of the original series, Leave It to Beaver. Billingsley made a cameo appearance in the spin-off film as Aunt Martha.
^Adair, Aly (February 27, 2009). "Top 10 Favorite TV Moms". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver is a principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. June and her husband, Ward, are often invoked...
parents, Ward and JuneCleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old ("almost eight") title character, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. The characters grew...
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played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont,...
action film Cliffhanger opposite Sylvester Stallone. She next appeared as JuneCleaver in a Leave It to Beaver film adaptation of television's original Leave...
archetypal suburban couple, Ward and JuneCleaver. Along for the ride are Tony Dow as the couple's older son, Wally Cleaver, and Jerry Mathers as their younger...
where it aired until June 1989. The series focuses on Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and his younger brother, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) as adults...
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aired from October 4, 1957 to June 20, 1963. Lumpy is a bit of a bully and, with Eddie Haskell, is one of Wally Cleaver's friends. Lumpy was portrayed...
in activities that would get them into trouble. Parents like Ward and JuneCleaver hoped Eddie wouldn't be a model to their children but rather someone...
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image". The role was described as "consolation" in Cary O'Dell's book JuneCleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television...
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Chieftain. Vancheri, Barbara, and Owen, Rob (May 9, 2004). "Leave It to JuneCleaver", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. F8. Adalian, Josef (May 8, 1993). "Why...
Archived from the original on January 16, 2008. Retrieved June 14, 2008. "JuneCleaver Chosen As All Time Top TV Mom". CityNews. Archived from the original...
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