C. Thomas Howell

🎂 Data nașterii: 1966-12-07 (Los Angeles, California, USA)

Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), usually credited as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stopped and Gods and Generals. Howell was born in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles to Christopher N. and Candice Howell. He has three siblings. His father worked as a stunt coordinator and rodeo performer. He played the role of the Red Knight in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. As a young boy, Howell wanted to be a stuntman and was a child stunt performer. He was also a rodeo star. When Howell was young, his parents divorced. Howell graduated from Saugus High School in 1984. In 1982, Howell made his film debut as Tyler in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 15 in 1981, Howell was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983). Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy Curtis, "the soulful tagalong greaser through whose eyes we see the events of the 1960s-set film unfold." Based on S.E. Hinton's bestselling 1967 novel of the same name,the coming-of-age film went on to become a cult classic. Howell's portrayal of Ponyboy was his breakthrough role, and it earned him a Young Artist Award. In 1984, Howell and his Outsiders co-star Patrick Swayze reunited for Grandview, U.S.A. and Red Dawn. Howell also had a pivotal role in Tank (1984). In 1985, he starred in Secret Admirer. After filming The Outsiders, Howell co-starred in his own television series Two Marriages, which ended after four episodes, but letters of support got it back on air. He later expressed disappointment in the series. Howell was one of two final actors in the running for the lead role of Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985); the other was Eric Stoltz. Ultimately, Michael J. Fox was cast as Marty after Stoltz was deemed wrong for the part. In 1986, Howell was a hitchhiker's target in the film The Hitcher. He also starred in the sequel, which was released in 2003. In 1986, Howell starred in Soul Man, a film in which Howell appears in Blackface. Rounding out the 1980s , Howell played the young Arturo Toscanini in Franco Zeffirelli's 1988 film Young Toscanini.

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Proscrișii

E.T. Extraterestrul

Net Games

Invazia roșie

Hidalgo

Fatal Affair

A Killer Within

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting

The Land That Time Forgot

Tank

Big Game

Acting on Impulse

The Hillside Strangler

Admirator secret

My B.F.F.

Far Out Man

Soul Man

The Hitcher

Toxic

Noaptea aceea

Glass Trap

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

The Poseidon Adventure

Killer Bees

The Grind

WillFull

Sleeping Dogs

The Return of the Musketeers

Last Lives

Hoboken Hollow

Gods and Generals

The Day the Earth Stopped

Fighting Words

War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

The Terror Experiment

The Shepherd

Side Out

Camel Spiders

Escape from Alaska

Payback

Grandview, U.S.A.

The Da Vinci Treasure

A Tiger's Tale

Restitution

The Eyes of the Panther

Ordinary Miracles

MoniKa

The Sweeper

Kid

A Gunfighter's Pledge

Dilemma

Xenophobia

Lawless: Dead Evidence

Crăciunul răcoros

Hitman's Run

Dead Fire

Clepsidra

The Prince and the Surfer

Home Invasion

An Amish Murder

Breaking the Rules

Liga Dreptății: Paradoxul puctului de fulger

Teresa's Tattoo

Askari

Asylum Days

Red Team

Charades

Dispozitivul suspect

Pure Danger

Lost on Purpose

Baby Face Nelson

Storm Rider

Cybermaster: Shepherd II

Treacherous

Enemy Action

Sealed with a Kiss

Nursie

Burning Down the House