1960s child actor John Eimen, 76, died on Nov. 22. Eimen was a go-to performer on many TV series: he was in 11 episodes of the sitcom McKeever and the Colonel, and also turned up in The Untouchables, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, Leave It to Beaver, Wendy and Me, and Petticoat Junction, among others. He also appeared in ads for Carnation Milk, Campbell’s Soup, and Alphabits. After aging out of the child-actor biz, Eimen became a rock singer, guitarist and songwriter, both in the US and Japan. For most of his adult life, he worked as a flight attendant (being fluent in Japanese helped). Eimen told interviewer Jeff Dwoskin, “many times I would just get called that I would have to be at a certain studio at a certain time in the case of you know, working as an extra especially and not that much was really required just show up and be dressed a certain way. Unless it was Western where you'd have to go to the Western costume company and be costume for a show. But anyway, so often, it was a spur of the moment deal.”
