Courtland Mead

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Courtland Mead
Born
Courtland Robert Mead

OccupationActor
Years active1991–2010

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

Career[edit]

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[edit]

Film[edit]

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 Gus Griswald (voice) Direct-to-video
2010 Mean Parents Suck Tommy
2023 Dragon Tales Johnny McGowan Episode I: The Fire Breather

Television[edit]

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
1995–1997 The Pinocchio Shop Brains 11 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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ conanfan33 (2010-01-23), Goofy Kid Actor - 1997, archived from the original on 2021-12-13, retrieved 2018-08-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 641. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.

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