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'Ward Cleaver' is a fictional character in the television situation comedy ''Leave It to Beaver''. In the original series he was portrayed by Hugh Beaumont, although Max Showalter (also known as Casey Adams) played the character in the pilot episode, "It's a Small World". Ward was portrayed by Christopher McDonald in the 1997 film.
As the parents of the family in the story, Ward and June Cleaver are often invoked in modern times as an archetypal suburban father and mother of the 1950s. Ward Cleaver is a responsible businessman and an even more responsible parent. He is a loyal reader of the ''Mayfield Press'' daily newspaper.
Hugh Beaumont, who also directed some segments of the show, was an ordained Methodist minister who the child actors later reported as being even more kindly and patient than his Ward Cleaver character.

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★ Character profile at TVLand.com