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1958–1988 (actor) 1988–2011 (cameos/himself)
^ "California Births, 1905-1995" . FamilyTreeLegends.com . Retrieved September 5, 2011 .
^ "The Almanac - Born on this date" . The Bryan Times 2 . August 3, 1990.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Ray Richmond (June 24, 1993). "Jay North lays the demons of 'Dennis' to rest" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar "Dennis the Menace Revealed: The Jay North Story" . E! True Hollywood Story . 1999.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax Minton, Kevin (June–July 1993). "The Menacing of Dennis". Filmfax Magazine .
^ "Jay North Answers 50 Intimate Questions". 16 Spec . No. 12. 16 Magazine, Inc. Winter 1968. pp. 18–20.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Charlie Patton (September 11, 2000). " 'Dennis' grows up" . The Florida Times-Union . Archived from the original on January 16, 2001.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Stephanie Mansfield (March 29, 1978). "Dennis the Menace in the Navy" . The Washington Post .
^ Jump up to: a b c d Larry Walters (April 1, 1962). "The REAL Dennis the Menace" . The Chicago Tribune .
^ Jump up to: a b c d Anita Summer (September 17, 1978). "Where Are They Now?" . Boca Raton News .
^ Jump up to: a b c " "Dennis The Menace" To Visit Tweetsie Railroad" . The Dispatch . July 3, 1963.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Radio Interview with Gloria Henry and Jeannie Russell" . Dennis the Menace: Season One DVD . 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Beck, Ken (November 13, 2005). "Grown-up menace is helping children" . The Tennessean .
^ Fred Danzig (November 23, 1959). "The Channel Swim" . Beaver Valley Times .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Mitchell Smyth (June 27, 1993). "First 'Dennis' runs a health-food firm" . Toronto Star .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Bob Thomas (July 26, 1964). "Dennis The Menace Gains Status Since Leaving TV" . Tri-City Herald .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Vernon Scott (August 3, 1964). " 'Dennis The Menace' Grows Up" . The News-Dispatch .
^ Jump up to: a b c Joe Hyams (February 19, 1961). "TV's 'Dennis The Menace' Is Model Lad Off-Camera" . The Tuscaloosa News .
^ Dorothy Kilgallen (December 2, 1959). "Darling Quote from Jay North" . Daytona Beach Morning Journal .
^ Janet Kern (December 21, 1959). "Ernie Ford will entertain young Jay North" . The Milwaukee Sentinel .
^ Jump up to: a b c Bob Thomas (July 29, 1964). "Actor Jay North Is Making Comeback at the Age of 12" . Reading Eagle .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l Mike Duffy (December 22, 1988). "Life isn't charmed for 'Dennis the Menace' " . The Spokesman-Review .
^ "Menace Is Guest in 'Pepe' " . Toledo Blade . February 26, 1960.
^ "The Misadventures of Dennis the Menace" . Colpix . 1960.
^ "Jay North - Look Who's Singing!" . Kem Records . 1960.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Jay North 'at peace' " . Gainesville Sun . June 21, 1993.
^ Bob Thomas (July 15, 1962). "Dennis the Menace Can Act His Age Next Season" . Nevada Daily Mail .
^ "Joseph Kearns, 55, TV Actor Is Dead" . The New York Times . February 18, 1962.
^ Jump up to: a b "TV's "Dennis" Is Coming To Promote Movie" . The Dispatch . July 9, 1966.
^ Jump up to: a b Ruth Thompson (September 23, 1967). "Jay North In India To Make "Maya" Series" . Gettysburg Times .
^ Jump up to: a b Rick DuBrow (September 18, 1967). "Shots Of India Make 'Maya' " . The News-Dispatch .
^ " 'Dennis the Menace' Grows Up!". Tiger Beat . December 1966.
^ "Jay North, Yesterday...and Today!". Tiger Beat . April 1967.
^ "My Early Life, by Jay North". Tiger Beat . December 1967.
^ "Jay North - All Grown Up!". Teen Datebook . December 1967.
^ "Sajid and Jay Tell All on Each Other!". 16 Magazine . February 1968.
^ "Sajid and Jay Present 'Our Favorite Pix!' ". 16 Magazine . March 1968.
^ "Jay North Comes Home! And You Are There!". Flip Magazine . May 1968.
^ "Fantastic Plastic Machine, the" .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Mitchell Smyth (December 27, 1987). "Dennis the Menace finds roles scarce" . Toronto Star .
^ Jack O'Brian (October 22, 1973). "Age of Vulgarity" . The Spartanburg Herald .
^ Jump up to: a b Kevin Thomas (May 10, 1974). "A Student, Teacher Affair" . Los Angeles Times .
^ Jason Garcia (March 24, 2002). " 'Dennis The Menace' Actor Makes Mount Dora Stop" . Orlando Sentinel .
^ "USS DIXIE (AD-14) Crew Roster" . Retrieved August 4, 2014 . 1978, BM, North, Jay, Los Angeles, CA
^ Jump up to: a b "Slayer Is Electrocuted in Virginia" . New York Times . April 15, 1988.
^ Jump up to: a b "Penitentiary calm during execution" . The Bryan Times . April 15, 1988.
^ Jump up to: a b "Jay North puts 'Dennis' behind him" . The Washington Times . June 21, 1993.
^ Jump up to: a b "Jay North says child stardom can be hurtful" . Daily News of Los Angeles . June 21, 1993.
^ " 'Dennis the Menace' Reunion Interview" . KTLA 5 News . September 30, 2011. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021.
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Jay North (born August 3, 1951) is an American actor. His career as a child actor began in the late 1950s with roles in eight TV series, two variety shows and three feature films. At age 7 he became a household name for his role as the well-meaning but mischievous Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace (1959-1963), based on the comic strip created by Hank Ketcham .
As a teen North had roles in two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature films: Zebra in the Kitchen and Maya . He also starred in the NBC television series adaptation of the latter film, also titled Maya . As an adult he turned to voice acting for animated television series, voicing the roles of Prince Turhan in the Arabian Knights segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour and a teenaged Bamm-Bamm Rubble on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show .
After leaving show business he disclosed the truth about the difficulties he dealt with as a child actor. He began working with fellow former child star Paul Petersen and the organization A Minor Consideration, using his own experiences as a child performer to counsel other children working in the entertainment industry.
North was born in Hollywood , the only child of Jay and Dorothy (née Cotton) North. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] North's father was an alcoholic, and his parents' marriage was stormy. [5] [7] When he was 4, his parents separated, and North never saw his father again. [5] [7] He briefly resided happily in Birmingham, Alabama . His mother worked as the secretary to the West Coast director of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). [4] [5] [7] [8]
From a young age, North was a fan of television. When he was 6, his mother used her connections at AFTRA to arrange for him to appear on his favorite television program, local Los Angeles children's show Cartoon Express , hosted by Engineer Bill . [4] [8] Prominent Hollywood talent agent Hazel MacMillan was impressed with the photogenic boy, contacting his mother the following day offering to represent him. [4] [5] His mother was aware of the stories of troubled former child stars, and had reservations but eventually gave her approval. [5]
North's first professional acting job was a live appearance on the gameshow Queen for a Day , hosted by Jack Bailey . [4] [5] [9] He continued to work as a child model and actor in commercials, and landed small parts on a number of popular NBC variety shows of the 1950s, such as The George Gobel Show , The Eddie Fisher Show , and The Milton Berle Show , before auditioning for the role that made him a star. [4] [5] [8] [10]
In June 1958, Columbia Pictures 's television division Screen Gems was holding a nationwide search for a boy to play the title character in their television adaptation of the popular Dennis the Menace comic strip by Hank Ketcham , and 6-year-old North auditioned. [4] [5] After receiving news that his first audition had not gone well, agent Hazel MacMillan pressed the studio to see him again. [5] The studio agreed and was impressed with his second audition. [4] [5] After hundreds of other boys' auditions, [3] [11] North was asked back to screen test with Herbert Anderson , Gloria Henry , and Joseph Kearns . A pilot was filmed later that summer. [4] [5] [12]
The season passed, and North heard nothing more from Screen Gems, but continued to work, appearing in a Christmas-themed episode of the CBS Western series Wanted: Dead or Alive titled "Eight Cent Reward". In the episode, he portrayed Laddie Stone, a young boy who pays bounty hunter Josh Randall ( Steve McQueen ) eight cents to find Santa Claus . [5] [7] [13] [14] Over the next several months, North made television appearances on such shows as 77 Sunset Strip , Rescue 8 , Cheyenne , Bronco , Colt .45 , and Sugarfoot , and broke into feature films with roles in The Miracle of the Hills and The Big Operator [5] [8] [11] until, in early 1959, almost one year after he had first auditioned, MacMillan contacted North's mother to tell her that her son had been chosen to play the role of Dennis "The Menace" Mitchell. [4] [5]
Dennis the Menace premiered on CBS on Sunday, October 4, 1959, and quickly became a hit with audiences. North was paid US$500 (equivalent to about $4,600 in 2021) per episode, [5] [15] his strawberry red hair was bleached platinum blonde for the role, [3] [16] [17] [18] and the 8-year-old was instructed to "shave" a year off his age when speaking with the press. [19] [20] His mother continued to work at AFTRA full-time, and hired business managers to invest his earnings. [3] [5] [8] In a 1993 interview with Filmfax magazine, North spoke highly of his mother, saying: "I want to make it very clear about one thing. I never supported my mother during [ Dennis the Menace ]. She earned her own money from AFTRA. She never lived off my earnings. I know that sometimes happens with child actors, but it was not true in my situation." [5]
While his mother worked, her sister Marie Hopper and brother-in-law actor-composer Hal Hopper served as his on-set guardians during filming for Dennis The Menace . [3] [4] [5] [7] [8] [12] [18] [21] In addition to filming the series, he appeared as Dennis in commercials for the show's sponsors, Kellogg's cereals , Best Foods mayonnaise , Skippy peanut butter , and Bosco chocolate milk , and regularly traveled around the country with his aunt and uncle on the weekends to promote the show. [4] [5] [9] [12] These obligations, combined with the required three hours a day of school, took their toll on him, and by the end of the first season, the 8-year-old had begun to feel the pressures of being the lead star of a popular show. [4] [5] [7] [8] [9]
In late 1960, the second season of the series was ranked among TV's top 20 shows, and his portrayal of Dennis had become a beloved pop culture icon . [4] [10] [22] He made crossover guest appearances as Dennis on such television shows as The Donna Reed Show and The Red Skelton Hour , and in the feature film Pépé . [12] [23] That year, North recorded The Misadventures of Dennis the Menace soundtrack stories on LP , and an LP album of songs titled Jay North - Look who's singing! . [18] [24] [25] With the success of the series, his guardians, Marie and Hal Hopper , had become strict taskmasters and stern disciplinarians. [3] [4] He was not allowed to socialize with other cast members on the set and missed being around children his own age. He ate alone in his dressing room. [3] [4] [5] [12] His only opportunity to relax was the occasional "free day" when he could play baseball with other children or when his uncle would take him to see horror films . [4] [5] [11] [17] [21] His favorite films at that time were The Pit and the Pendulum and Village of the Damned . [5] [7] [9]
By late 1961, the series was in its third season, and North was earning $2,500 (equivalent to about $23,000 in 2021) per episode. [4] The show remained in the top 20, but North had grown tired and frustrated with the pressures of carrying a hit show and the long work hours. [4] [5] [8] Complicating matters was his relationship with his aunt Marie. [3] [5] [26] Many years later, North revealed that his aunt physically and verbally abused him when he made mistakes on the set or did not perform to her standards. He said if he failed a line, she would take him behind the set and beat him. For years, it was too painful for him to watch reruns. [3] [4] [5] [7] [12] [26] His mother and the rest of the Dennis The Menace cast were unaware of the abuse, and he concealed his unhappiness due to threatened retribution from his aunt. [3] [5] [12] In July , his childhood co-star, Jeannie Russell , who had portrayed Margaret Wade and who became his chiropractor, said "If Jay says she abused him in private, then I'm inclined to believe it. The sheer demands of being in every scene all by itself had to be extremely stressful. Any extra pressure from [his aunt] would have made it unbearable." [3] In 2007, she said: "'The show comes first.' This was the ethic that we were raised in. Had I seen any abuse or any horrible upset on Jay's part, I would have noticed. It would have impacted me. It would have upset me terribly." [12]
By the fourth season, North was earning $3,500 (equivalent to about $32,000 in 2021) an episode; [15] but by 1962, the 11-year-old had begun to outgrow the character's childish antics. [7] [16] [27] This, combined with the unexpected loss of Joseph Kearns near the end of season three, had changed the dynamic of the show. [5] [16] [28] During his interview with Filmfax , North recalled: "Between the pressures of the business and Joe's dying, I became very serious, very morbid, and very withdrawn from the world. I was the antithesis of the little kid that I played on the television show." [5] By the end of the fourth season, ratings were down, and in early 1963, to his relief, Dennis The Menace was canceled. [4] [5] [16] [17]
In late 1963, North's mother enrolled him in prep school , [17] but due to his part-time education while filming Dennis The Menace , combined with not having been allowed to socialize with other children, he struggled to keep up with his studies at his new school and was nervous interacting with the other students. [4] [7] [8] [22] North continued to audition, and in 1964, he appeared in an episode of Wagon Train , but found himself typecast as the impish Dennis Mitchell and had trouble finding steady work. [3] [5] [8] [15] [16] In 1999, North told the E! network, "I had to fight the ghost of Dennis the Menace, and I was typecast. I still had the face, and that's what casting directors, producers and directors saw when I would go in to read for a role." [4]
In 1965, he landed the lead role in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer family comedy film Zebra in the Kitchen as Chris Carlyle, a boy who, unhappy with the living conditions he finds at his local zoo, decides to set the animals free, causing chaos throughout the town. [5] [8] [16] [17] [21] Over the next year, he continued to appear in small television roles, guest-starring on the MGM TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and reuniting with his former Dennis the Menace co-star Gale Gordon on The Lucy Show . [3] [5] [10] [13] In 1966, North landed the starring role in another MGM family adventure film, Maya . [5] [8] [13] [29] In the movie, which was filmed on location in India , North played Terry Bowen, a boy who navigates the Indian jungle with a Hindu boy and an elephant and her baby calf , the latter a sacred white elephant . [5] [29] He continued to appear in small guest-starring roles on television shows such as My Three Sons and Jericho , and in 1967, NBC decided to make a television series adaptation of Maya . [3] [5] [7] [30] [31] North agreed to reprise his role and was soon back filming on location in India. [3] [5] [8] [30] [31]
The feature film Maya and subsequent television series made North a popular teen idol of the era, featured in numerous teen magazines such as Tiger Beat , 16 Magazine , Teen Datebook , and Flip . [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] While Maya proved popular with teen audiences, the NBC series struggled in its time slot against popular shows of the time, CBS's The Jackie Gleason Show and ABC 's The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game , and was cancelled after one season. [5] [7] [8] Years later, North spoke fondly of his experience on the series, saying, "I can say that I'm really proud of my work on Maya , from a professional standpoint. I got to play an adult role and it was a challenge." [5] North had missed a full year of school while filming Maya in India, and after returning home to Hollywood , began a normal life in high school, graduating from Rexford Senior High School in Beverly Hills in 1969. [4]
North narrated the surf film, The Fantastic Plastic Machine , in 1969 [39]
After completing filming on the Maya television series, North found work as a voice actor for animated television series , providing the voices of Prince Turhan in the Arabian Knights segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour , Terry Dexter in Here Comes the Grump , and a teenaged Bamm-Bamm Rubble on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show . [5] [7] [8] [13] In 1971, he left Hollywood for Chicago to perform in dinner theater , appearing in several stage productions, including principal roles in Norman, Is That You? and Butterflies Are Free . [3] [4] [5] [8] In January 1972, while appearing in Butterflies Are Free , 20-year-old North met actress Kathleen Brucher, who had a four-year-
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