Movie Credits
Church Ball	(2006)
[ Fred Willard ][ Clint Howard ][ Larry Bagby ]
A Christmas Too Many	(2005)
[ Andrew Keegan ][ Clint Howard ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Austin O'Brien ]
A Carol Christmas	(2003)
[ William Shatner ][ Michael Landes ]
Attack of the Cocktopuss	(2000)
The Flunky	(2000)
[ Dean Stockwell ][ Bubba Smith ]
Shafted!	(1999)
Like Father, Like Santa	(1998)
[ Harry Hamlin ][ Stuart Pankin ]
Dirty Work	(1998)
[ Chevy Chase ][ Norm MacDonald ][ Ken Norton ][ Adam Sandler ][ David Koechner ]
The Curse of Monkey Island	(1997)
[ Glenn Quinn ][ Quinton Flynn ]
Fox Hunt	(1996)
[ Rob Lowe ][ Jeff Rector ][ Timothy Bottoms ][ George Lazenby ][ Lewis Arquette ]
Party	(1994)
Playing with Fire	(1985)
[ Yaphet Kotto ]
The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins	(1984)
[ Bernie Casey ][ Fred Dryer ][ Jason Bateman ]
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.	(1983)
[ Clayton Rohner ][ Crispin Glover ][ Robert Guillaume ][ Dean Butler ][ Clarence Gilyard Jr. ]
Hall Monitor	(1983)
[ Todd Bridges ]
The Bicycle Man: Part 1	(1983)
[ Todd Bridges ]
Jimmy the Kid	(1982)
[ Walter Olkewicz ][ Pat Morita ][ Don Adams ][ Cleavon Little ]
The Kid with the Broken Halo	(1982)
[ Corey Feldman ][ Robert Guillaume ][ Ray Walston ][ Keith Coogan ]
On the Right Track	(1981)
[ Norman Fell ][ Herb Edelman ]
Drummond's Fair Lady	(1981)
[ Todd Bridges ]
Scout's Honor	(1980)
[ Harry Morgan ]
Lucy Moves to NBC	(1980)
Getting Involved	(1979)
[ Todd Bridges ]
Rough Housing	(1979)
[ Todd Bridges ]
Cosmic Whiz Kid	(1979)
The Kid from Left Field	(1979)
[ Tab Hunter ][ Robert Guillaume ]
That's Entertainment, Evans Style	(1978)

African-American child star Gary Coleman grew up in Zion, IL, where his father worked for a pharmaceutical firm and his mother was a nurse. Before reaching the age of five, Coleman had undergone three operations for a congenital kidney defect known as nephritis. As a result of his medical condition, he would never grow any taller than 4'8". His smallness proved to be a professional advantage when he began appearing in Chicago-area TV commercials; even at the age of nine, he could still pass as a precocious five-year-old. In 1978, Coleman auditioned for a proposed television revival of the old Little Rascals comedy series. Though the project fell through, ABC chief executive Fred Silverman was enchanted by the talented tyke. Silverman cast Coleman as Arnold Jackson on the upcoming sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, which moved to NBC along with Silverman in the fall of 1978. It was this extraordinarily popular series, coupled with the precocious Coleman's spirited TV talk show appearances, that catapulted the ten-year-old to stardom. Within a year of Diff'rent Strokes' debut, Gary Coleman Productions was formed, for the purpose of starring the youngster in theatrical features like On the Right Track (1981) and made-for-TV movies like Scout's Honor (1980) and The Kid With the Broken Halo (1982). This last project was spun off into the Saturday-morning cartoon series The Gary Coleman Show (1983), with Coleman providing his own voice. An instinctive comic performer and extremely quick study, Coleman rapidly grew weary with the rigors of show business. As he grew older, Coleman's spontaneous cuteness faded. After the cancellation of Diff'rent Strokes in 1986, Coleman found the going decidedly rough. Occasionally he'd play a "stunt" part like a villainous gang leader on the TV series 227, but his short stature and ever-diminishing acting range made him difficult to cast. He still remained in the public eye, albeit as the central character in a bitter legal squabble between himself and his parents. Gary Coleman's later TV appearances were largely confined to a series of late-night commercials for a "psychic" telephone service.