Courtland Mead

Courtland Mead
Born	Courtland Mead Mission Viejo, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–2010

Courtland Mead is an American former actor, noted for his performances as a child actor during the 1990s.

Career

Mead began acting at the age of 2, playing minor characters. His first noted achievement was when he played the part of young Johnny McGowan in the 1994 film Dragonworld . Later that same year, he appeared as Uh-huh in the 1994 feature-film adaptation of The Little Rascals . In 1997, Mead portrayed psychic child Danny Torrance in Stephen King's television adaptation of The Shining .

In 1997, he appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien ^[1] and appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut. ^[2] The following year he co-starred with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro in Disney's Tom and Huck . He also played Howard in Corrina, Corrina with Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Merchant in Hellraiser IV , and Kirk Cameron's youngest brother in the short-lived WB sitcom Kirk . ^[3] Mead had spoken parts in The Haunting , based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House , Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid , and 1995's Babe . Mead also provided the voices of Gus Griswold in the Disney animated series Recess and Ned Needlemeyer in Nightmare Ned , as well as the titular character in Disney's Lloyd in Space . He has also reprised his role in The Young and the Restless as Nina's son, starting as Young Phillip and Phillip Chancellor IV. In 2010, he appeared as Tommy Farrell in Mean Parents Suck.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	For Parents Only	Tommy
1992	Only You	Frank Jr.
1994	Dragonworld	Young Johnny McGowan
	The Little Rascals	John "Uh-Huh" Collum
	Corrina, Corrina	Howard Davis
1995	Babe	Puppy (voice)
	Tom and Huck	Sid
1996	Hellraiser: Bloodline	Jack Merchant
1998	Emma's Wish	Danny Bookman
	A Bug's Life	Fly (voice)
1999	Go	Boy
2001	Recess: School's Out	Gus Griswald (voice)	Main role
2003	Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade		Direct-to-video
2010	Mean Parents Suck	Tommy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Baby Talk	Santa's Visior #2	Episode: "Away in a Manger"
1992	A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story	Dennis Craig Jurgens	Television film
1993	Lake Consequence	Christopher	Television film
1993–1994	The Young and the Restless	Phillip Chancellor IV	11 episodes
1994	In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness	Young Jimmy	Television film
1994	One Women's Courage	Michael Pearson	Television film
1994–2009	ER	Vanilla Latte Boy	Episode: "Leave It to Weaver"
1994–2003	Touched by an Angel	Matthew Mills	Episode: "The Road Home: Pt I"
1995	Coach	Little Boy	Episode: "Ten Percent of Nothing"
	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Malcolm Johnson	Television film
	What Love Sees	Hap Holly	Television film
1995–1996	Kirk	Russell Hartman	31 episodes
1996–1999	Promised Land	Matthew Mills	Episode: "Vengeance Is Mine: Pt II"
1997	The Jamie Foxx Show	Maguire	Episode: "The Young and the Meatless"
	The Shining	Daniel Anthony Torrance	TV Mini-series 3 episodes
	Nightmare Ned	Ned (voice)	25 episodes
	Rugrats	Ricky (voice)	Episode: "Dust Bunnies/Educating Angelica"
1997–2001	Recess	Gus Griswald (voice)	Main role
1998	Hercules	Alexander (voice)	Episode: "Hercules and the Kids"
	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Randy	Episode: "The Woods"
1999–2000	NYPD Blue	Kyle Kirkendall	3 episodes
2001–2004	Lloyd in Space	Lloyd Nebulon (voice)	Main role

Video games

Year	Title	Role
1991	Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid	Flounder
1997	Ariel's Story Studio	Flounder
	Nightmare Ned	Ned Needlemeyer

References

1. conanfan33 (2010-01-23), Goofy Kid Actor - 1997, archived from the original on 2021-12-13, retrieved 2018-08-05
2. Wilber510 (2009-08-13), Pizza Hut The Edge Pizza commercial with Courtland Mead, archived from the original on 2021-12-13, retrieved 2018-08-05
3. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 641. ISBN   0-345-45542-8.

External links

• Courtland Mead at IMDb