John Eimen, the former child actor who starred in “Leave It to Beaver,” “The Twilight Zone,” and “McKeever and the Colonel,” has died. He was 76.

Eimen died Friday of prostate cancer at his home in Mukilteo, Washington, his family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

He learned of his cancer diagnosis in September, the family said.

Born October 2, 1949, in Chicago, Eimen and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child, and he was discovered by a talent agent who happened to visit his first-grade classroom.

“She often came by the school, and she and my teacher often went out after school for dinner or something,” Eimen recalled on “The Jeff Dwoskin Show” in 2020. “She saw me at school, and at that time, I had bright, ridiculously bright red hair and the freckles, a really re

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