Actor Luke 'Tiger' Fafara has opened up about his time on the much-loved sitcom , Leave It to Beaver , which ran from 1957 to 1963. Luke played Tooey Brown, a friend of Wally Cleaver , joining the cast in the late 1950s and appearing in multiple episodes before leaving the show in 1960. The 80-year-old shared in an interview in August 2025 on That's Classic that although he had never been given a clear answer as to why his character was cut from the show, he believes that because other actors had been added to the cast, the show needed to trim its budget, letting him go.

The veteran star also said he believes he was let go from the show because he wasn’t under contract like some of the other child stars who also played Wally and his younger brother, Beaver Cleaver’s (Jerry Mathe

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