According to a
1998 PEOPLE profile, Bank learned to handicap horses and read
The Wall Street Journal during breaks on the
Beaver set, where he also taught himself "everything there was to know about tax-free bonds." Within three years of getting started, he said, he was earning $300,000 a year at an L.A.-based company.
Among his clients were Mathers and
Barbara Billingsley, who played
Leave It to Beaver's matriarch, June Cleaver. As she once told PEOPLE: "Frank is certainly brighter than Lumpy Rutherford, and a very good stockbroker."
