Courtland Mead

American actor

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Courtland Mead

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Courtland Robert Mead

Mission Viejo, California, U.S.

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1991–2010

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

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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  | 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  |

### Television[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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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
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
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"

Emma's Wish | Danny Bookman  | Television film
1999  | ER | Vanilla Latte Boy  | Episode: "Leave it to Weaver"
1999–2000  | NYPD Blue | Kyle Kirkendall  | 3 episodes
2001–2002  | Lloyd in Space: The Lloyd Bonus Minute | Lloyd Nebulon (voice)  | TV Mini-series
15 episodes
2001–2004  | Lloyd in Space | Lloyd Nebulon (voice)  | Main role

### Video games[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role

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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
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[edit]

* Courtland Mead at IMDb

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