Erik von Detten

Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten, 2004
Born	Erik Thomas von Detten October 3, 1982 (1982-10-03) (age 27) 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 (2001) and National Lampoon's Barely Legal (2003) and Toy Story (1995) (voice).

Biography

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]

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 (Michael Sabatino) and Carly Manning (Crystal Chappell), 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 the villainous toy-destroyer 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, and Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle". Von Detten has also played the part of Chris Savage in the short-lived sitcom Complete Savages. In 2009, he was featured in the music video "Wanted" by pop singer Jessie James.

Filmography

• All I Want for Christmas as Choir Member (1991)
• Days of our Lives as Nicholas Alamain (1992-1993)
• ER as Ben(Little boy stuck in a drain & saved by Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney)(1994)
• 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)
• 7th Heaven (TV) - Season 1 Episode 6 "Halloween" as Randy(1996)
• A Stranger to Love as Justin (1996)
• Amanda (1996)
• Christmas Every Day as Billy Jackson (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 (AKA After School Special) 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)
• Bones as Ed Dekker (2008)

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External links

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