<Li> Eric Osmond (b . 1971) </Li> <Li> Christian Osmond (b . 1974) </Li> <P> Kenneth Charles "Ken" Osmond (born June 7, 1943) is an American actor and retired policeman . Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of four, Osmond is best known for his iconic role as Eddie Haskell on the 1950s television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver, and for reprising it on the 1980s revival series The New Leave It to Beaver . Typecast by the role, he found it hard to get other acting work and became a Los Angeles policeman . After retiring from the police, he resumed his acting career . </P> <P> Osmond was born in Glendale, California . His father was a carpenter and his mother, whom he describes as "a typical movie mother", had ambitions to get him and his brother, Dayton, into acting . Osmond began going on professional auditions at the age of four, and was soon working in commercials . His mother took her sons to acting classes every day after school; he eventually studied dance, drama, diction, dialects, martial arts, and equestrian riding . </P>

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