Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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He may wind up so over-identified with Frodo that he has a very hard time getting work for a while (see: Mark Hammil, the post Star Wars years....)
True. But was Mark getting critical acclaim at the time? Elijah seems canny -- after starring in such huge films, he's already got more post-big-trilogy credits than Mark did in the same time span.
Christopher Walken was kind of a child actor... well, he was on a short-lived show when he was 10, at least.
I have just discovered that Victor Garber and Erik Estrada are precisely the same age.
I have no idea why this tickles me so.
Because they both had giant Afros in the 1970s? Because you are trying to imagine Ponch as Sydney Bristow's father?
I did not know that Valerie Bertinelli had been a child star. Huh. All I could think of were, like, oh everyone who was on Celebrity Boxing. The former Wednesday Addams. The Diff'rent Strokes kids.
Although you find out the funniest people fall into the Kurt Russell Club -- Dean Stockwell and Dr. Zaius (what WAS his name??) and like that.
You know, I am suddenly thinking, maybe the chief reason that former child actors can stay in the acting business is Lifetime Television. All of those family dramas, churned out ten a week -- work for everybody!! Certainly, they have kept Patty Duke in Lithium and Melissa Gilbert in [something] for years now.
Does John Cusack count? Or was he too old when he began acting professionally?
John Cusak in Sixteen Candles (right?) is the littlest thing ever.
John (and Joan) definitely count, I'd say.
John Cusak in The Journey of Natty Gann is way cuter, IMHO.
Okay.
And Patty Duke -- if we didn't mention her before.
How about Hallie Mills?
He may wind up so over-identified with Frodo that he has a very hard time getting work for a while
According to IMDB, he's already done 5 films since RotK. (Including Eternal Sunshine.) So even if he's not getting mobbed to play leading man roles, he's not doing too badly.
I need to see a picture of Erik Estrada in an afro. The idea makes me giggle.