John Eimen , who appeared in more than a dozen TV series including Leave It to Beaver , The Twilight Zone and McKeever and the Colonel as a child actor in the late 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 76. His family said he died of prostate cancer at his home in Mukilteo, WA. He had been diagnosed in September.

Born on October 2, 1949, in Chicago, Eimen moved with his family to Los Angeles in the 1950s. A freckled-faced redhead, he was discovered by an agent friend of his first-grade teacher. Often billed as Johnny Eimen, he appeared in episodes of such popular TV shows as Wagon Train, The Untouchables, Have Gun – Will Travel and General Electric Theater from 1958-62.

He also appeared in a classic Charles Beaumont-penned 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone — which wasn’t? — ti

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