Erik von Detten
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| Born | Erik Thomas von Detten October 3, 1982 San Diego, California |
| Years active | 1991 - present |
Erik Thomas von Detten (born October 3, 1982) is an American actor. He has appeared in Escape to Witch Mountain (1995), The Princess Diaries (2002) and National Lampoon's Barely Legal (2003).
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Von Detten was born in San Diego, California. His mother, Susan Von Detten (née Farber), is an American photographer,[1] and his father, Volker von Detten, is an immigrant from Munich, Germany.[2] He has three sisters, Dolly, Britta, and Andrea, and a brother, Timothy. As of 2003, he had a Dalmatian named Miles.[3]
[edit] Career
One of Von Detten's earliest roles was Nicholas Alamain on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1992 until 1993. Nicholas was revealed to be the secret son of Lawrence Alamain and Carly Manning, two of the show's major characters. As a result Von Detten was heavily involved in some of the show's main storylines, despite only being 10 years old at the time. Perhaps the most notable storyline during Von Detten's time on the soap was Nicholas' accidental killing of his father's lover Lisanne Gardner, who had been attempting to blackmail Lawrence over the secret of Nicholas's parentage.
At thirteen, he provided the voice of Sid Phillips in the hit movie Toy Story. He starred as Wally Cleaver in the 1997 movie Leave It to Beaver and also starred as the title character in the Disney Channel original movie Brink! in 1998. Von Detten has also appeared in a theatrical release as the jerk Josh Bryant in The Princess Diaries (film) in 2001. In addition, he has made several television appearances in shows like Dinotopia (2002), the first celebrity edition of the ABC reality show The Mole, Celebrity Mole Hawaii (2003), in which he was runner-up, as well as Disney Channel's So Weird. Von Detten has also played the part of Chris Savage in the shortlived sitcom Complete Savages.
[edit] Filmography
- All I Want for Christmas as Choir Member (1991)
- Days of our Lives as Nicholas James Alamain #1 (1992-1993)
- In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness as Older John (1994)
- A Season of Hope as Tyler Hackett (1995)
- In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped as Sam Honeycutt (1995)
- Top Dog as Matthew Swanson (1995)
- Escape to Witch Mountain as Danny (1995)
- Toy Story as Sid Phillips (1995) (voice)
- Things That Go Bump as Christian (1996)
- A Stranger to Love as Justin (1996)
- Christmas Every Day as Billy Jackson (1996)
- Amanda (1996)
- Hercules as Additional Voices (1997) (voice)
- Leave It to Beaver as Wallace "Wally" Cleaver (1997)
- Meego as Trip Parker (1997)
- Replacing Dad as Drew (1999)
- Brink! as Andy "Brink" Brinker (1998)
- Tarzan as Additional Voices (1999) (voice)
- Odd Man Out as Andrew Whitney (1999)
- So Weird as Clu Bell (1999, recurring 2000-2001)
- The Princess Diaries as Josh Bryant (2001)
- The Legend of Tarzan as Flynt (2001) (voice)
- Recess as Erwin Lawson (1998-2001) (voice)
- American Girl as Kenton (2002)
- Dinotopia as Karl Scott (2002)
- National Lampoon's Barely Legal as Deacon Lewis (2003)
- Celebrity Mole Hawaii as Himself (2003)
- Complete Savages as Chris Savage (2004-2005)
- Smile as Chris (2005)
- Girl, Positive as Jason (2007)
- Bully as Johnny Vincent (2008)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Susan Von Detten
- ^ According to chat interview, circa January/February 2000
- ^ Sansing, Dina. "the way to his heart?" (JPG), Seventeen, 2003, p. 120. Retrieved on 2006-09-08. (English)
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