Movie Credits
Yellow Peri's Spell of Doom	(1990)
Identity Crisis	(1989)
Journey to the Center of the Earth	(1989)
The Chocolate War	(1988)
[ Adam Baldwin ][ Doug Hutchison ][ John Glover ][ Bud Cort ]
Weird Science	(1985)
[ Bill Paxton ][ Robert Rusler ][ Robert Downey Jr. ][ Anthony Michael Hall ][ Danny Elfman ]
The Wild Life	(1984)
[ Billy Idol ][ Randy Quaid ][ Eric Stoltz ][ Chris Penn ][ Rick Moranis ]
Daniel	(1983)
[ Timothy Hutton ][ Mandy Patinkin ][ Sidney Lumet ]
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days	(1983)
[ Wallace Shawn ]

Ilan Mitchell-Smith was born in New York City and began studying ballet at an early age. After his family relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts, he was enrolled in dance classes four days a week and eventually got a scholarship with the School of American Ballet. While at the ballet, he was discovered by a casting agent for director Sidney Lumet and was signed to play Timothy Hutton's character as a young boy in the film, Daniel (1983). That led to a major role in The Wild Life (1984) in which he played a young man who had a romanticized notion of the '60s, a part that required a lot of research into the milieu of the times.