Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. LOS ANGELES - MAY 2: Dennis The Menace, a CBS television situation ...

In 1951, Hank Ketcham created Dennis the Menace, a daily newspaper comic strip featuring a clever five-year-old who wreaked havoc on the people in his life through a series of funny misadventures. The ...

He was best known for playing the towheaded Dennis Mitchell on a sitcom that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963. By Alexandra E. Petri and Daniel E. Slotnik Jay North, who played the well-meaning, ...

As the title character in the midcentury sitcom “Dennis the Menace,” Jay North, who died Sunday at 73, was among my first TV stars, even before I had a notion of what a TV star was. And he was ...

Jay North, best known to TV fans around the world as Dennis Mitchell, star of the classic 1950s and ’60s family comedy Dennis the Menace, passed away on April 6, 2025, at the age of 73, after a long ...

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. — Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's Dennis the Menace for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73. North died Sunday at his home in Lake ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Jay North, who rose to fame in the 1959 to 1963 sitcom Dennis the ...

Jay North, known for defining the image of a postwar American child as a trouble magnet on television's "Dennis the Menace," died Sunday. He was 73. Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend and fellow actor ...