That’s Dwayne Hickman, of course - he played Dobie on TV for years, even though Dobie was a teen and Dwayne was in his later 20s. He went on to be a TV director and a CBS TV executive.

“Dobie Gillis,” by the way, was the creation of Max Shulman, a writer who got his start at the University of Minnesota’s student newspaper. The success of Dobie had odd results; he ended up writing a humor column for college papers in his forties.