# Courtland Mead

Courtland Mead is an American former actor, noted for his performances as a child actor during the 1990s.

## Career

Mead began acting at the age of 2, playing minor characters. His first noted achievement was when he played the part of young Johnny McGowan in the 1994 film Dragonworld. Later that same year, he appeared as Uh-huh in the 1994 feature-film adaptation of The Little Rascals. In 1997, Mead portrayed psychic child Danny Torrance in Stephen King's television adaptation of The Shining.
In 1997, he appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut. The following year he co-starred with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro in Disney's Tom and Huck. He also played Howard in Corrina, Corrina with Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Merchant in Hellraiser IV, and Kirk Cameron's youngest brother in the short-lived WB sitcom Kirk. Mead had spoken parts in The Haunting, based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid, and 1995's Babe. Mead also provided the voices of Gus Griswold in the Disney animated series Recess and Ned Needlemeyer in Nightmare Ned, as well as the titular character in Disney's Lloyd in Space. He has also reprised his role in The Young and the Restless as Nina's son, starting as Young Phillip and Phillip Chancellor IV. In 2010, he appeared as Tommy Farrell in Mean Parents Suck.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | For Parents Only | Tommy | |
| 1992 | Only You | Frank Jr. | |
| 1994 | Dragonworld | Young Johnny McGowan | |
| 1994 | The Little Rascals | John "Uh-Huh" Collum | |
| 1994 | Corrina, Corrina | Howard Davis | |
| 1995 | Babe | Puppy (voice) | |
| 1995 | Tom and Huck | Sid | |
| 1996 | Hellraiser: Bloodline | Jack Merchant | |
| 1998 | Emma's Wish | Danny Bookman | |
| 1998 | A Bug's Life | Fly (voice) | |
| 1999 | Go | Boy | |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Gus Griswald (voice) | Main role |
| 2003 | Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade | Gus Griswald (voice) | Direct-to-video |
| 2010 | Mean Parents Suck | Tommy | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Baby Talk | Santa's Visior #2 | Episode: "Away in a Manger" |
| 1992 | A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story | Dennis Craig Jurgens | Television film |
| 1993 | Lake Consequence | Christopher | Television film |
| 1993–1994 | The Young and the Restless | Phillip Chancellor IV | 11 episodes |
| 1994 | In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Young Jimmy | Television film |
| 1994 | One Women's Courage | Michael Pearson | Television film |
| 1994–2009 | ER | Vanilla Latte Boy | Episode: "Leave It to Weaver" |
| 1994–2003 | Touched by an Angel | Matthew Mills | Episode: "The Road Home: Pt I" |
| 1995 | Coach | Little Boy | Episode: "Ten Percent of Nothing" |
| 1995 | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Malcolm Johnson | Television film |
| 1995 | What Love Sees | Hap Holly | Television film |
| 1995–1996 | Kirk | Russell Hartman | 31 episodes |
| 1996–1999 | Promised Land | Matthew Mills | Episode: "Vengeance Is Mine: Pt II" |
| 1997 | The Jamie Foxx Show | Maguire | Episode: "The Young and the Meatless" |
| 1997 | The Shining | Daniel Anthony Torrance | TV Mini-series 3 episodes |
| 1997 | Nightmare Ned | Ned (voice) | 25 episodes |
| 1997 | Rugrats | Ricky (voice) | Episode: "Dust Bunnies/Educating Angelica" |
| 1997–2001 | Recess | Gus Griswald (voice) | Main role |
| 1998 | Hercules | Alexander (voice) | Episode: "Hercules and the Kids" |
| 1998 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Randy | Episode: "The Woods" |
| 1999–2000 | NYPD Blue | Kyle Kirkendall | 3 episodes |
| 2001–2004 | Lloyd in Space | Lloyd Nebulon (voice) | Main role |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1991 | Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid | Flounder |
| 1997 | Ariel's Story Studio | Flounder |
| 1997 | Nightmare Ned | Ned Needlemeyer |