Noah Hathaway

Noah Leslie Hathaway (born November 13, 1971) is an American film actor. He is best known for his roles played as a child, including Boxey in the original Battlestar Galactica, and Atreyu in The Neverending Story.

Early career

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Robert Hathaway, who was of part Native American descent,^{[citation needed]} and Judy Ringler. He began his acting career at age two, and appeared in fifty commercials. He was cast as Boxey in Battlestar Galactica when he was only six, and states that he does not remember much of that time.

The Neverending Story

At the age of twelve, Hathaway was selected for his most memorable role: Atreyu in The Neverending Story. "For Atreyu", said German director Wolfgang Petersen, "I sought a good-looking boy of athletic build with the quality of fierce determination. The role requires the character to ride a horse expertly, fly on the back of a dragon, struggle through a swamp, clamber over rocks and fight a ferocious wolf-vampire."^[1]

Filming took place at the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich, Germany, starting in March 1983. Preparation for the role included learning how to ride a horse bareback. Hathaway said he never read the book by Michael Ende because at the time it wasn't available in English. Already fluent in French, the language-savvy actor picked up enough German to where the English-limited Petersen could direct him in German. The shooting lasted nine months.

Subsequent projects

The Neverending Story made Hathaway popular with younger viewers. He went on to star in Troll (1986) and a mystery film Casebusters (1986). His final major film project was To Die, to Sleep (also titled Mortal Danger) (1994). Although Hathaway will likely not reprise his role in the recently announced remake of Troll, he is set to play a much older character named Torok.^{[citation needed]}

Present life

Noah Hathaway has been active in sports all his life. An excellent swimmer, he was a Junior Lifeguard. He also played basketball, lifted weights, ran on treadmills and raced motorcycles.

Hathaway left acting in the mid-1980s and moved into dance instruction, teaching advanced jazz and street dance until an injury forced him to quit in 1989 at eighteen. Noah returned briefly to the limelight in 1994 for Mortal Danger, which was his last acting role, though in 2005 he said he was taking acting classes again.^[2] He was recently cast for a remake of Troll and is providing a voice-over for the upcoming Italian Cannibal Film set in the 70's, Mondo Holocausto!. He moved to Far Rockaway, New York for a few years and didn't return to the West Coast until 1998.

He spent some of his time at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California, competing in supersport motorcycle racing; he also tended bar at several Los Angeles clubs. He trained in martial arts for several years, and had already earned his brown belt by the time of The Neverending Story. Hathaway would later earn black belts in Tang Soo Do and Shotokan, and compete as a Muay Thai boxer. He learned American Kenpo from Dr. Jerry Erickson, and worked as an assistant instructor with Erickson on a close-quarter combat training course for flight attendants and airline pilots. Noah is a fan of designing and riding chopper motorcycles and he's also still trying to set up his own chopper shop.^[2]

In 2000 Noah mentioned during several interviews his interest in opening his own motorcycle shop in Southern California.

Noah has a wife, Sameerah, and two stepchildren.^{[citation needed]}

Mobile Suit Gundam Reference

In the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, there is a potential reference to Noah Hathaway. Bright Noa (Bright Noah) has a son named Hathaway Noa.

Filmography

References

Articles

• Starlog #22 May 1979 by Barbara Lewis pp. 24
• Starlog #86 September 1984 by Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier pp. 59–60
• Space Voyager #14 pp. 56–59
• Daredevils #10 August 1984 by Cynthia Broadwater pp. 7–11.
• Underground Online

External links

• Noah Hathaway at the Internet Movie Database
• Noah Hathaway - official site: under construction
• recent Noah Hathaway interview
• Noah Hathaway articles
• UnderGround Online