The Inspiring Story of Frank Bank, Lumpy From ‘Leave It To Beaver’

Years ago, when I started watching Leave It to Beaver for the first time, I knew the Cleaver boys were headed for trouble whenever Wally’s friend Lumpy would show up. Lumpy, often aided by that scoundrel of all scoundrels, Eddie Haskell, was always up for a little bit of mischief. 

During his memorable first appearance, Clarence “Lumpy” Rutherford, played by actor Frank Bank, was actually more of a bully than he would turn out to be. In that first episode, for whatever reason, Lumpy felt that Wally and “the Beav” needed to walk the long way home. Of course, the boys got their revenge … well, kind of. It turns out that the trap they had set for Lumpy would be stumbled into instead by his father.