- 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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spouse =Stanley Albert Fafara (
September 20 1949 —September 20 2003 ) was an Americanactor , 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 currentDevilDriver vocalistDez 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]
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