Jay North, who as a child actor played the cowlicked star of the sitcom “Dennis the Menace” in the late 1950s and early ’60s, the peak of an entertainment career that endeared him to millions of TV ...

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 ...

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 ...