Dennis Wilson, second born of the famous Wilson brotherhood, was the soul of the Beach Boys. Sure, Brian was the genius, the mastermind without whom they’d never have got out of their Hawthorne ...

Here’s who’s still alive from the original cast of Dennis the Menace. Jeannie Russell (74) Margaret Wade Russell played the bossy, goody-two-shoes Margaret, who had her romantic sights set on Dennis, ...

And he was definitely a star — billed over the adults who played his parents and perennially put-upon neighbor Mr. Wilson, memorably played by the great Joseph Kearns. I lived as a child on a double ...

(After Mr. Kearns died in 1962, Gale Gordon played a similar character for the rest of the show’s run: John Wilson, George’s brother.) Herbert Anderson played Dennis’s father, and Gloria ...