Courtland Robert Mead is an American actor.

Mead was born in Mission Viejo, California

Mission Viejo, California

Mission Viejo is a city located in southern Orange County, California, U.S. in the Saddleback Valley. Mission Viejo is considered one of the largest master-planned communities ever built under a single project in the United States, and is rivaled only by Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in its size...

, the son of Denise and Robert Mead and brother of twin sisters Lauren and Candice Mead. In the 1994 film Dragonworld

Dragonworld

Dragonworld is a 1994 film. It is the third film to be released by Moonbeam Entertainment, the children's video division of Full Moon Entertainment.-Plot:...

he played the part of young Johnny McGowan, a young boy who finds a dragon egg on his grandfather's property after moving to Scotland. Additionally, he portrayed the fictional character Danny Torrance in Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

's The Shining television mini-series, and appeared as Uh-huh in the 1994 feature-film adaptation of The Little Rascals

The Little Rascals (1994 film)

The Little Rascals is a 1994 American comedy film produced by Amblin Entertainment, and released by Universal Pictures on August 5, 1994. The film is an adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang, a series of short films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s which centered around the adventures of a group of...

. The following year he co-starred with Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor, voice actor, former child star, and teen idol...

 and Brad Renfro

Brad Renfro

Brad Barron Renfro was an American actor. He made his film debut in 1994 at age 12 in the lead role of Joel Schumacher's The Client, going on to star in 21 feature films, several short films, and two television episodes during his career. Much of his later career was marred by a pattern of...

 in Disney's Tom and Huck

Tom and Huck

Tom and Huck is a 1995 Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Joey Stinson, and Rachael Leigh Cook; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In the film, mischievous young Tom Sawyer witnesses a murder by the vicious Native American known as "Injun Joe"...

. He also played Howard in Corrina, Corrina with Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...

, and Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron

Kirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor best known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains , as well as several other television and film appearances as a child actor...

's youngest brother in the short-lived WB sitcom Kirk

Kirk (TV series)

Kirk is an American family sitcom which aired for two seasons on The WB from August 23, 1995 to January 12, 1997.-Synopsis:The show revolves around Kirk Hartman, played by Kirk Cameron, an aspiring illustrator and recent college graduate living in Greenwich Village. After his aunt decides to move...

. Mead also provided the voices of Gus Griswold in the Disney animated series Recess

Recess (TV series)

Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series focuses on six elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and teachers...

and Ned Needlemeyer in Nightmare Ned

Nightmare Ned

Nightmare Ned was a short-lived animated television series which ran from April 19, 1997 to August 9, 1997 on ABC. Based on a homonymous video game developed by Creative Capers Entertainment, the show focuses on the life of Ned Needlemeyer , a 10-year-old boy that deals with his daily problems...

, as well as the title character in Disney's Lloyd in Space

Lloyd in Space

Lloyd in Space is an animated television series, created by Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain , and released in 2001. The pilot was written by Ansolabehere, Germain and Mark Drop...

. Courtland also played a part in the Young and the Restless as Nina's son Phillip Chancellor IV and Napolean Dynamite.

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