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Chuckie and Kenny were cast in the role to play Phillip during his mom and dad's wedding. His on-screen dad {Thom Bierdz} was killed in a drunk driving accident later that year. Young Phillip was barely 2 years old. His young mother, Nina, was left to raise her young son alone. |
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The role of Philip was just the begining of Chuckie and Kenny's career in acting. They went on to act on Dallas as James Jr. and on General Hospital as young Lucas. They also appeared on NYPD Blue and in the film Come the Morning. Kenny and Chuckie are pictured together on the set of GH in 1993. |
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Scott and Shaun {born 12 Jun 1987 in Orange County, CA} played Phillip for a very short time. Here they do their Macauly Culkin impressions. |
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Phillip and his mom, Nina in 1991. {pics courtesy Vera} |
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Courtland played Phillp during the beginning of Nina and Ryan's love story. He is shown on the set of Y&R with his on screen mom Nina {Tricia Cast} and Scott Reeves as his on screen mom's boyfriend, Ryan McNeil. Phiilip walked his mother, Nina, down the aisle in her 1994 wedding to Ryan. |
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Courtland {born 19 Apr 1987 in Orange County, CA} began his showbiz career soon after his newborn twin sisters began appearing on Days of Our Lives. His mom noted that while the girls continued on camera, older brother Courtland went from "total attention as an only child to becoming envious of what the twins were doing. He had a commercial audition when he was 5 and has worked ever since." {Info Copyright 1997, Sun Newspapers; photos courtesy Benito} |
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Courtland and the cast of the The Little Rascals, 1994. {photo courtsey of IMDB.com} |
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Courtland played Uh-Huh in the Little Rascals. All his character said was Uh-Huh, until the end of the movie where he spoke in very large words. Everyone was so surprised that he could say something besides uh-huh. |
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Courtland left Y&R in 1995 to begin his new TV series with Kirk Cameron, Will Estes and Taylor Fry. He played the little brother Russell Hartman in the series. It was a short lived sitcom on the WB.
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Courtland's most notable role was as the main character in Stephen King's The Shining, the 1997 TV miniseries. He played Danny 'Doc' Torrance and showed quite a range of emotions. |
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Courtland has been nominated and won several awards during his career, including the following: 1993 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor under 10 in a Television Movie for: A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story, A (1992 TV movie) 1994 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Actor Under Ten in a Television Series or Show for: "The Young and the Restless" 1995 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance by an Actor Under Ten in a Motion Picture for: Corrina, Corrina (1994) 1995 Won Young Artist Award Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Film Made for Video for: Dragonworld (1994) 1995 Nominated Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Child Actor for: "The Young and the Restless" 1995 Won Young Artist Award Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Daytime Series for: "The Young and the Restless" 1996 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance by an Actor Under 10: Television for: "Kirk" (1995) 1997 Won Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Voice Over in a Feature or TV - Best Young Actor for: "Recess" (1997) 1997 Won Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie/Home Video: Young Ensemble for: What Love Sees (1996) (TV) Award shared with: Trevor O'Brien, etc. 1998 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series: Young Actor Age 10 or Under for: "Shining, The" (1997 miniseries) 1999 Won Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series or Series - Supporting Young Actor for: Emma's Wish (1998 TV movie) 2000 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Supporting Young Actor for: "NYPD Blue" |
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Courtland was born 19 April 1987 in Mission Viejo, California and has a long resume at the young age of 15. He has been acting since he was just 5 years old. His first acting role was a guest appearance on the tv show "Coach" he played "Little Boy". He went on after that to other guest appearances on Rugrats, Baby Talk, Touched by an Angel and ER. He has starred in many made for TV movies, starting with Lake Consequence. He has also been seen on the big screen in The Little Rascals, Corrina Corrina, Tom and Huck and Hellraiser IV. He has also done two voice roles for Disney, in A Bug's Life and Recess as Gus {photo on right courtesy Disney}. His twin sisters, Candace and Lauren are also actresses. They played Victor and Joey Kiriakis on Days of our Lives in 1990. Check out Candace and Lauren's page at The Children of Salem |
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The role of Phillip was Thomas's first acting job. He served as an occasional replacement for Courtland Mead while Courtland was off filming movies. Thomas went on after Y&R to act in other movies. He was in "Christmas Love" in 1994 and did guest appearances on The Nanny, Seinfeld, ER (pictured here in the pilot episode on September 19, 1994), Star Trek: Voyager as Henry, Touched by an Angel and Caroline in the City. {pics courtesy Vera} |
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Thomas has done lots of commercials. He did voice work for Land Before Time as Littlefoot and The American Tail as Fievel. Thomas is sometimes credited as Thomas Alexander Dekker. He was born December 28, 1987. {Pictures courtesy Star Galaxy} |
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In 1995 Thomas landed one of the lead roles in the movie "Village of the Damned. He is featured on the movie poster, on the far right. The movie is about evil children who are taking over the world. Christopher Reeves and Kirstie Alley play the two lead roles in the movie. This was one of Thomas' biggest movies. He was 8 years old. The B&W pic was a promo pic for the movie. |
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In 1997 at the age of 10, Thomas was cast as Nick Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. {Pictures courtesy Star Galaxy} |
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Thomas is now 14 years old. He is still in the acting business. His latest work has been voice work as the two lead characters in two main cartoon series. Land Before Time V, VI, VII, VIII and VIIII as Littlefoot and American Tail 2000 as Fievel. He also starred in one movie in 2001, Inside the Osmonds as Young Donny Osmond. {photo courtesy of The Official Thomas Dekker Website please check out his site lots of info about his other roles.} |
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Alex Linz was in the role of Phillip for a little over one year. Then the character was aged and Alex went on in his acting career. Alex is sometimes credited as Alex D. Linz. {photos on left and right courtesy Benito} |
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Alex has appeared in dozens of commercials, including this one for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. {photos courtesy stargalaxy.com} |
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Alex is another of Y&R's young actors to make it big in films. He has appeared on the Tonight Show to coincide with the release of One Fine Day, where he played Sammy Parker. His costars were Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney and Mae Whitman. {photos on far right and left courtesy stargalaxy.com, photo in middle, courtesy IMDB.com} |
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One of Alex's biggest roles was starring in Home Alone 3. The film went straight to video. {Photo on left courtesy IMDB.com, photos on right courtesy stargalaxy.com} |
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In 2001 he starred in his own movie called Max Keeble's Big Move. {Photos courtesy IMDB.com} |
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In 1993, at the age of four, Alex told his mother he wanted to be in TV commercials and, after several auditions, won his first for JC Penney, followed by a series of spots for McDonald's. He broke into acting in 1995, appearing on daytime's "The Young and the Restless" (CBS), as well as primetime episodes of "Cybill" (CBS), "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (ABC), and "Step by Step" (ABC). That same year, he made his TV-movie debut in a small role in "Danielle Steel's 'Vanished'" (NBC). Linz had the lead in a CBS TV-movie, "The Uninvited" (1996), playing a boy who moves with his family to a new home only to find a spirit in the house covets him. Alex was born 3 January 1989 in Santa Barbara, California. He has been nominated and won several awards during his career. 1997 Won YoungStar Award Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film for: One Fine Day (1996) 1997 Won ShoWest Award Young Star of the Year 1997 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film: Actor Age Ten or Under for: One Fine Day (1996) 1998 Nominated YoungStar Award Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film for: Home Alone 3 (1997) 1998 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Actor Age Ten or Under for: Home Alone 3 (1997) 2000 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance in a
Voice-Over (TV or Feature Film) - Young Actor for: Tarzan
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Nicholas was the last child actor in the role of Phillip. He was in the role when his mom finally married Ryan McNeil and Ryan adopted Phillip and became his legal father. {photo on right courtesy katef.free.fr} |
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Nicholas also appeared in the TV movie, Terror in the Shadows (1995) and the film Outbreak. He also played Billy in the first episode of "Ally McBeal" (1997) and Mark Burton in a 1995 episode of "Picket Fences." {photos courtesy Benito} |
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Nicholas was the last child actor in the role of Phillip. He was in the role when his mom finally married Ryan McNeil and Ryan adopted Phillip and became his legal father. |
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Badgley split his childhood years between Richmond, Virginia. and Seattle, Washington. In Seattle he was involved in the Seattle Children's Theater and did voice-overs for a children's radio station. It was through these experiences that Badgley discovered his love of acting. This passion brought him one summer to Hollywood, where he landed an agent and his first big break guest-starring on Will and Grace. After relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, Badgley secured several recurring roles on Y&R, The Brothers Garcia, and Daddio. Badgley currently lives in Los Angeles. When not working, he attends Santa Monica City College, having completed his California High School Proficiency Exam. Also musically gifted, he enjoys singing, writing, and playing the guitar. In his spare time, Badgley likes to go surfing, skiing and snowboarding. In the fall of 2001, Penn got his big break starring in "Do Over" as Joel Larsen. However, the new series was short-lived. {bio courtesy imdb.com} |
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