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Avneet Kaur

--Birth date has been contested. Do not insert a date unless you also provide a reliably published source that verifies the date--> in Jalandhar, Punjab is an Indian dancer and television child actress.

Bernard J. Schaffer

Bernard J. Schaffer (born 1974) is a police detective, an author, and a former child actor who appeared on the Nickelodeon program Don't Just Sit There.

Buddy Swan

Paul Benjamin "Buddy" Swan (October 24, 1929 – March 21, 1993) (also credited as Buddy Swann) was an American child actor, best known for playing the title character of the 1941 film Citizen Kane as an eight-year-old boy.

Byron Ortile

Byron Ortile is a Filipino child actor and a commercial model, known for his role as Alvin in Sine Novela Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan, playing the son of Marvin Agustin and Camille Prats.

Callum Jones

Callum Rebecchi (previously Jones) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours played by child actor Morgan Baker.

Chad Webber

Chad Webber was a child actor noted for providing the voice of Charlie Brown in various Peanuts animation films during the early 1970s.

Douglas Croft

Douglas Croft, born Douglas Malcom Wheatcroft (August 12, 1926 – October 24, 1963) was an early American child actor who is best remembered for being the first actor to portray the DC Comics character Robin the Boy Wonder as well as his secret identity Dick Grayson in the 1943 serial Batman, at sixteen years of age.

Eliot Otis Brown Walters

Eliot Otis Brown Walters (born 4 February 1993) is a British child actor best known for his role as Ryan in the BBC television drama Summerhill about the school by the same name.

Florrie Dugger

Florence "Florrie" Dugger is an American former child actress, whose only role was "Blousey Brown" in the all-child cast of Bugsy Malone (1976).

Fred Beir

Child actor Stephen Talbot of Leave It to Beaver delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's famous address of 1775 at St. Johns' Church.

Gordon Gebert

Gordon Alan Gebert (born October 17, 1941) was a child actor who is predominantly known for having smaller roles, in such films as Holiday Affair.

Jake Goldberg

Jacob Goldberg (born February 7, 1996) is an Jewish-American actor, known for his roles in Grown Ups (2010) and Grown Ups 2 (2013), as Greg Feder.

Jane Withers

Withers also took a flyer in screenwriting: she wrote the original story filmed as Small Town Deb, under the pseudonym "Jerrie Walters." In 1979, Withers was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its very first Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of three, Withers is a Young Artist AwardFormer Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Josh Albee

Josh Albee is an American television actor, known for his work as a child actor during the 1970s, and for the role as the young, mute boy Caleb in the feature film, Jeremiah Johnson.

Katya Berger

Her stepbrother is film child actor Kasimir Berger (born in London on October 3, 1974), who starred with his father in the TV mini-series Christopher Columbus (1985) as Diego as a child, in Tuareg - Il guerriero del deserto (1984) (uncredited) as Gacel's Son and with his mother and sister in Rosso sangue (1981) as Willy Bennett, and she is half-sister of actress Debra Berger.

Kelly Reno

to cattle ranchers in Pueblo, Colorado, is a former child actor who was cast at age 13 in the role of Alec Ramsey, the young boy who is marooned on a deserted island along with a horse, in The Black Stallion (based on the novel by Walter Farley).

LuAnn Haslam

Beginning a career as a professional child model and actress at the age of eleven, Haslam is best known for her role as "Becky Thatcher" on the Hanna-Barbera children's television series, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which originally aired on NBC from 1968 to 1969.

Mason Reese

Mason Reese is a former child actor who appeared in numerous television commercials in the 1970s, particularly for Underwood Deviled Ham, Post Raisin Bran, and Dunkin' Donuts' Dunkin' Munchkins-brand "donut holes".

Narding Anzures

The son of actors Miguel Anzures and Rosa Aguirre, Anzures had starred in pre–World War II films as a child actor.

Parris Mosteller

Parris Hank Mosteller (born July 5, 2001) is an American child actor who is best known for playing his role of Stink in Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer.

Spencir Bridges

Spencir Todd Bridges (born July 15, 1998) is an American child actor, best known for his role in Daddy Day Camp as Ben Hinton (previously played by Khamani Griffin).

Sunny Besen Thrasher

Sunny Besen Thrasher (born December 13, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former Canadian child actor who starred as Paul Edison in Nelvana's live-action series, The Edison Twins, and supplied voices in the first two Care Bears movies.

The Pizza Underground

Namely parodying songs by The Velvet Underground with pizza-themed songs names and lyrics, the group consists of child actor Macaulay Culkin (kazoo, percussion and vocals) along with Matt Colbourn (guitar, vocals), Phoebe Kreutz (glockenspiel, vocals), Deenah Vollmer (pizza box, vocals), and Austin Kilham (tambourine, vocals).

Tina Yothers

Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of three, she is best known for her role as Jennifer Keaton on the hit NBC series Family Ties, as well as for her roles in numerous television films throughout the 1980s and early 1990s including The Cherokee Trail, Crash Course, and Spunk: The Tonya Harding Story among others.

Willie Aames

Aames began acting in the late 1960s as a child actor and appeared in shows such as Gunsmoke, The Wonderful World of Disney, Adam 12, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father. In 1971, he originated the role of Leonard Unger, the son of Felix Unger (Tony Randall), on the ABC-TV series The Odd Couple, a part that was later played by Leif Garrett.


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Aamir Khan Productions

Khan also starred in Taare Zameen Par, sharing the screen with the debut of child actor Darsheel Safary and Tisca Chopra.

Albert Hackett

Hackett was born to Maurice Hackett and actress Florence Hackett (née Hart) in New York City, New York where he attended Professional Children's School and started out as a child actor, appearing on stage and in films.

Alfred Weidler

Among their six children, two were child actors: Sylvia (1921–2003), who appeared in the 1930 film, What a Widow!, and Virginia (1927–1968), who flourished as a child actor.

Azharuddin

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, (born 1998), Indian child actor in the film Slumdog Millionaire

Bryan Dick

Dick trained as a dancer at Joy Irvings dance & Wendy Allens School of dance in Carlisle as a child then at Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey, moving on to Cumbria Institute of the Arts and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), although he had already worked professionally as a child actor.

Carlo J. Caparas' Bangis

Carlo J. Caparas' Bangis (lit. Ferocity) is Philippine TV’s first higante-serye and another primetime offering aired on Philippines by TV5 and starred by Oyo Boy Sotto, Danita Paner and child actor BJ Go.

Charles Matthau

Born in New York City, he appeared as a child actor alongside his father in such films as Charley Varrick (1973), The Bad News Bears (1976) and House Calls (1978).

Charles Nolte

He is survived by his partner of over 50 years, former English-American child actor Terry Kilburn.

Clancy Chassay

In his childhood Chassay was briefly a child actor, appearing in two Derek Jarman films, as the young Ludwig Wittgenstein in Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein and the young Wilfred Owen, alongside Laurence Olivier, in Jarman's 1988 film War Requiem.

Danielle Ammaccapane

Her daughter, with husband Rod Kesling, is child actor Laura Ann Kesling.

David Talbot

He is also the brother of documentary producer and former child actor Stephen Talbot, doctor Cynthia Talbot of Portland, Oregon, and journalist Margaret Talbot, a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Dhag

At the 60th National Film Awards the film won 3 awards: Best Director, Best Actress for Usha Jadhav and a Special Jury mention for performance by a child actor for Hansraj Jagtap.

Don Dubbins

Child actor Stephen Talbot delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. Johns' Church.

Filiz Akın

She married director Türker İnanoğlu and they had a son İlker İnanoğlu who would go on to become a prominent child actor, appearing with Akın in the Yumurcak film series.

Greg Rowe

Greg Rowe (born 1964) was a child actor starring in Australian films such as Storm Boy (1976) and Blue Fin (1978), both based on novels by Colin Thiele.

Gummo Marx

His grandsons are actors Gregg Marx, Chris Marx, and actor/producer Brett Marx, who as a child actor appeared as 'Jimmy Feldman' in 1976's comedy film The Bad News Bears.

Hanna Zetterberg Struwe

Before politics, she was a child actor, remembered for having played Ronia the Robber's Daughter in the 1984 film based on Astrid Lindgren's famous book.

Hennesey

Prior to being cast as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, child actor Ron Howard played "Walker", a little boy temporarily left in Hennesey's care in the 1959 episode "The Baby Sitter".

Howard Davies

John Howard Davies (1939-2011), English child actor who later became a television director and producer

Jack Lindquist

As a child actor, Lindquist appeared as an extra in several episodes of Our Gang, and appeared in the film Best Foot Forward with Lucille Ball.

Jan Olsson

Jan Ohlsson (born 1962), Swedish former child actor, known for his role as Emil in Emil i Lönneberga

John Bromfield

Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous younger actors who later became well known in the industry: Dan Blocker, Peter Breck, Charles Bronson, Mike Connors, David Janssen, Stacy Keach, Sr., Michael Landon, Jack Lord, Gavin MacLeod, Doug McClure, Ross Martin, Martin Milner, Roger Smith, Lee Van Cleef, and child actor Johnny Crawford.

John Whiteley

Jon Whiteley (b. 1945), British art historian; former child actor

Jon Whiteley

Jon Whiteley (born 19 February 1945 in Monymusk, Scotland) was a child actor in films.

José Clímaco

He directed his wife in her film debut, and in several films afterwards which she had starred in with her leading man, the former child actor Narding Anzures.

Josh LaBove

Joshua Labove (born on March 22, 1986, in Manhasset, New York) has often been credited in TV and film performances as a child actor in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Kasper Barfoed

He was a child actor, performing in the stage musical version of Oliver Twist and in Ingmar Bergman-actress, Liv Ullmann’s directing debut Sofie.

Kathy Thibodeaux

In 1976, she married Keith Thibodeaux, a former child actor and musician, best known for playing "Little Ricky" in "I Love Lucy" and "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" television shows.

Kyle Catlett

Kyle Catlett is an American child actor from New Jersey, known for his role of Joey Matthews in The Following, and lead role as T. S. Spivet in The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

Lauro Delgado

Starting his acting career in the 1950s, Delgado primarily villainous roles in films produced by Premiere Productions and People's Pictures, and was billed as the leading actor in the 1960 film "Sa Mata ng Diyos" ("In the Eyes of God") along with Tessie Quintana, Leonor Vergara, Carlos Padilla, Jr. and child actor Aida Villegas.

Lisa Gerritsen

She was born Lisa Orszag, and is the granddaughter of child actor and screenwriter True Boardman, and the great-granddaughter of silent film actors True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman.

Marcus Rivers

Marcus Rivers (portrayed by child-actor Bobb'e J. Thompson) is a fictional 12 year-old character that was used by Sony Computer Entertainment America as part of their Step Your Game Up advertising campaign for the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo consoles in North America, much like the PlayStation 3's "It Only Does Everything" advertising campaign commercials with Kevin Butler.

Mekhai Andersen

Mekhai Andersen is a child actor noted for his role of Henry LaMontagne on the television series Criminal Minds.

Merlin Santana

On November 9, 2002, Santana was shot in the head and killed as he and his best friend, former child actor Brandon Quintin Adams were in a car leaving another man's home in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles.

Nathan Parsons

As a child actor he did voice-over work dubbing Japanese anime for ADV Films, including the lead role of Jean Roque-Raltique in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and parts in "Soul Hunter", Devil Lady and Jing: King of Bandits.

Parker Goris

Parker Goris (born January 16th 1995) is a child actor who is the voice of Flounder in Walt Disney's direct-to-video animated film The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning and the Kingdom Hearts series.

Polly Wolly Doodle

Popular early 20th century child actor Shirley Temple also sang "Polly Wolly Doodle" in the 1935 film, The Littlest Rebel.

Rock Rapids, Iowa

Jerry Mathers, Leave It to Beaver star, resided in Rock Rapids as a youngster prior to achieving fame as a child actor.

Sanoop Santhosh

Sanoop is the younger brother of young actress Sanusha, who also started her acting career as a child actor in Malayalam films.

Scott Hastings

Scotty Beckett (1929–1968), born Scott Hastings Beckett, American child actor

Stollery

David Stollery (born 1941), former American child actor and, as an adult, an industrial designer

Tom Knight

Tommy Knight (born 1993), child actor, best known for playing Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Tony Blankley

He was briefly a child actor, appearing, most notably, as Rod Steiger's son in The Harder They Fall (1955).

Tristan Lake Leabu

Tristan Lake Leabu is an American child actor who made his debut playing the part of Jason White, Lois Lane's son, in the 2006 film Superman Returns.

Trop Jr

One of the judges in 2009, when 12 films were screened, was child actor Brandon Walters.