Stanley Fafara

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name = Stanley Fafara


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birthname = Stanley Albert Fafara
birthdate = September 20 1949
location = San Francisco, California, USA
deathdate = death date and age|2003|9|20|1949|9|20
deathplace = Portland, Oregon
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notable role = "Whitey" Whitney in
"Leave It to Beaver" (TV)
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Stanley Albert Fafara (September 20 1949 — September 20 2003) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Whitey" Whitney in the original "Leave It to Beaver" television series. He appeared in forty-two of the show's 234 episodes. His older brother, Tiger, played "Tooey Brown" in the series.

Fafara was born in San Francisco, California. He died on his 54th birthday in Portland, Oregon, of complications from surgery.

Fafara became addicted to drugs and alcohol between the 1960s and 1995, when he checked himself into a detox center. He reportedly spent the final eight years of his life clean and sober, initially living in a house for recovering addicts and alcoholics, then in a subsidized apartment near Portland's "skid row", where he lived on Social Security checks until his hospitalization in 2003. [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1988283 Stanley Fafara dies; 'Whitey' on 'Leave It to Beaver'] - HollywoodReporter.com]

Fafara's nephew is former Coal Chamber and current DevilDriver vocalist Dez Fafara, son of Tiger Fafara.

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264996/ Stanley Fafara at the IMDb]
* [http://www.geocities.com/alcus2/fafara.html Stanley Fafara as "Whitey" Whitney]
* [http://www.tv.com/stanley-fafara/person/51106/biography.html Fafara's bio at TV.com]
* [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1988283 Obituary at The Hollywood Reporter]