{"id":6379,"date":"2025-04-07T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2025-04-07T06:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:05:05","slug":"jay-north-tvs-mischievous-dennis-the-menace-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"Jay North, TV&#8217;s mischievous Dennis the Menace, dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">LAKE BUTLER, Fla. &#8212; <\/span>Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV&#8217;s \u201cDennis the Menace\u201d for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">North died Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, after battling colon cancer, said Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend, and Bonnie Vent, who was his booking agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cHe had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with \u2018I love you with all my heart,\u2019\u201d Jacobson wrote in a tribute on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">North was 6 when he was cast as the smiling troublemaker in the CBS sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham&#8217;s popular comic strip that took place in an idyllic American suburb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Often wearing a striped shirt and overalls, Dennis&#8217; mischievous antics frequently frustrated his retired next-door neighbor George Wilson, played by Joseph Kearns. Dennis&#8217; patient parents were played by Herbert Anderson and Gloria Henry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The show ran on Sunday nights until it was canceled in 1963. After that it was a fixture for decades in syndication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Later, North appeared on TV in shows including \u201cThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.,\u201d \u201cThe Lucy Show,\u201d \u201cMy Three Sons,\u201d \u201cLassie\u201d and \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d and in movies like \u201cMaya\u201d (1966), \u201cThe Teacher\u201d (1974) and \u201cDickie Robert: Former Child Star\u201d (2003).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">North is survived by his third wife, Cindy, and three stepdaughters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE BUTLER, Fla. &#8212; Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV&#8217;s \u201cDennis the Menace\u201d for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73. North died Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, after battling colon cancer, said Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend, and Bonnie Vent, who was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}