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Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American
United States

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 of film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D.

C.H.U.D. is an American B-movie-horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer....
, City Slickers
City Slickers

City Slickers is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern , Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby....
 and the first two Home Alone
Home Alone

Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
 films, and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an United States television Comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on American Broadcasting Company, from 1988 in television through 1993 in television....
.

n was born in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda....
 to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care
Day care

Day care or child care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's parents or legal guardians, typically someone outside the child's immediate family....
 center. His brother is television writer David M. Stern
David M. Stern

David M. Stern is an United States television writer. He is the brother of actor Daniel Stern , and worked with his brother on The Wonder Years....
.






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Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 of film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D.

C.H.U.D. is an American B-movie-horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer....
, City Slickers
City Slickers

City Slickers is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern , Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby....
 and the first two Home Alone
Home Alone

Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
 films, and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an United States television Comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on American Broadcasting Company, from 1988 in television through 1993 in television....
.

Biography


Early life

Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda....
 to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care
Day care

Day care or child care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's parents or legal guardians, typically someone outside the child's immediate family....
 center. His brother is television writer David M. Stern
David M. Stern

David M. Stern is an United States television writer. He is the brother of actor Daniel Stern , and worked with his brother on The Wonder Years....
. According to IMDB.com, Stern is 6'4? (193 cm). Stern graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase Senior High School in 1975. During his years at B-CC, Stern starred in several theater productions, including playing C.C. Baxter, the Jack Lemmon role, in The Apartment. Stern applied for a job as a lighting engineer for a Shakespeare Festival in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, but was hired as a walk-on. After taking acting lessons, Stern began his acting career in Off Broadway and Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 productions, including a performance at Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre

Second Stage Theatre is a contemporary American Off-Broadway theater company. It was founded by Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman in 1979. The name refers to the intention to give 'second stagings' to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performanc...
 with actor Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Prison warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 in film prison film The Shawshank Redemption....
.

Career

In 1979, Stern made his movie debut as Cyril in Breaking Away
Breaking Away

Breaking Away is a 1979 in film coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned Indiana Limestone quarry....
. The following year he played a student who raised objections during Jill Clayburgh's proof of the snake lemma
Snake lemma

In mathematics, particularly homological algebra, the snake lemma, a statement valid in every abelian category, is the crucial tool used to construct the long exact sequences that are ubiquitous in homological algebra and its applications, for instance in algebraic topology....
 in the film It's My Turn. His breakthrough role as an actor came in Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
's Diner
Diner (film)

Diner is a 1982 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon , Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films"....
. Another film role he is remembered for is the 1984 horror film, Douglas Cheek's C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D.

C.H.U.D. is an American B-movie-horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer....
 as the soup kitchen C.H.U.D. hunter. He was the original choice to play Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen

Biff Tannen is a fictional character in the Back to the Future trilogy motion picture trilogy, serving as the primary antagonist of the first two films and a minor supporting character in the third film....
 in the 1985 film Back to the Future
Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
, but he turned the role down.

Stern is often remembered for playing bumbling but lovable idiots, such as Phil from the City Slickers
City Slickers

City Slickers is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern , Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby....
 movies, Marv from the first two Home Alone
Home Alone

Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
 movies, and Max from Bushwacked. Many consider his role as Marv to be a breakthrough for his career. He is also noted for providing the voice of the narrator on the TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an United States television Comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on American Broadcasting Company, from 1988 in television through 1993 in television....
, which starred Fred Savage
Fred Savage

Fredrick Aaron Savage is an United States actor and television director and film director, and Television producer.He is best known for his role as Kevin_Arnold#Major_characters in the hit television series The Wonder Years....
. Stern and Savage were also featured together in Little Monsters
Little Monsters

Little Monsters is a 1989 in film comedy-drama Cinema of the United States starring Fred Savage as Brian Stevenson, a sixth-grader who has recently moved to a new town, and Howie Mandel as Maurice, the monster under the bed....
, interestingly Stern played the part as Savage's father. Stern provided the voice for the main character of the Dilbert
Dilbert (TV series)

Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the Dilbert. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999 and was UPN's highest rated series premiere to that point of the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Golden Globe before its cancellation....
 animated series, based on the comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 by Scott Adams
Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires and experimental philosophy books....
. He also tried his hand at directing through several episodes of The Wonder Years and the movie Rookie of the Year.

Stern has been married to Laure Mattos since 1981, together they have three children. His best friends include Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

'William Edward' "'Billy'" 'Crystal' is an United States actor, writer, film producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes Wh...
 and Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci

'Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci' is an United Statesn actor, comedian, singer and musician.Known for his tough guy roles, Pesci has starred in a number of high-profile films such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, Casino and more recently The Good Shepher...
, his co-stars from City Slickers
City Slickers

City Slickers is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern , Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby....
 and Home Alone
Home Alone

Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
, respectively.

In 2003, Stern went on a USO
United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the Military of the United States worldwide....
 tour to Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
 and Kuwait.

Filmography

  • Otis
    Otis (film)

    Otis is a 2008 in film direct-to-DVD Horror film-comedy directed by Tony Krantz. It is the fourth Raw Feed horror film from Warner Home Video....
     (2008)
  • Bachelor Party Vegas
    Bachelor Party Vegas

    Bachelor Party Vegas is an adventure/comedy film that was released in 2006 starring Kal Penn, Jonathan Bennett, Charlie Talbert, and Donald Faison....
     (2006)
  • A Previous Engagement (2005)
  • The Last Full Measure
    The Last Full Measure

    The Last Full Measure is the sequel to The Killer Angels and Gods and Generals. Together, the three novels complete an American Civil War trilogy relating events from 1858 to 1865....
     (2004)
  • Regular Joe (2003) TV Series
  • Danny (2001) TV Series
  • Viva Las Nowhere (2001)
  • How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

    How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is a 2000 in film American dramedy film written and directed by Michael Kalesniko and produced by Nancy M. Ruff....
     (2000)
  • Dilbert
    Dilbert (TV series)

    Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the Dilbert. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999 and was UPN's highest rated series premiere to that point of the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Golden Globe before its cancellation....
     (1999) Animated TV Series
  • Partners (1999)
  • Very Bad Things
    Very Bad Things

    Very Bad Things is a fy black comedy, directed by Peter Berg. It stars Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, and Jeremy Piven, with co-stars Daniel Stern , Christian Slater, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and writer/director Berg....
     (1998)
  • Tourist Trap
    Tourist trap

    A tourist trap is an establishment, or group of establishments, that has been created with the aim of attracting tourists and their money. Tourist traps will typically provide services, entertainment, souvenirs and other products for tourists to purchase, and these will often be at inflated prices ....
     (1998)
  • Gun
    Gun (TV series)

    "Gun" was a television anthology series that lasted six episodes in 1997. Each episode involved the same semi-automatic handgun as an important part of the plot....
     (1997) TV Series
  • Hey Arnold!
    Hey Arnold!

    Hey Arnold! was an United States animated television series that aired from October 7, 1996 until June 8, 2004 on Nickelodeon ....
     (1997) Animated TV Series
  • Celtic Pride
    Celtic Pride

    Celtic Pride is a comedy film directed by Tom DeCerchio. It features Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two passionate Boston Celtics fans and Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott, the Utah Jazz's All-Star shooting guard....
     (1996)
  • Bushwhacked
    Bushwhacked (film)

    Bushwhacked is a 1995 in film starring Daniel Stern , Brad Sullivan , Corey Carrier and other actors....
     (1995)
  • City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold is a comedy film directed by Paul Weiland. It is the sequel to City Slickers . Although a financial success, the film was a critical failure, scoring a mere 20% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and even received a Razzie nomination for Worst Remake or Sequel....
     (1994)
  • SeaQuest DSV
    SeaQuest DSV

    seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996....
     (1993) TV Series
  • Rookie of the Year
    Rookie of the Year (film)

    Rookie of the Year is a 1993 Baseball movie#Fiction starring Thomas Ian Nicholas and Gary Busey.Albert Hall , Dan Hedaya, Eddie Bracken, Amy Morton, Bruce Altman, John Gegenhuber, and Daniel Stern co-star....
     (1993)
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
    Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

    Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 in film sequel to the 1990 in film film Home Alone , written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus ....
     (1992)
  • City Slickers
    City Slickers

    City Slickers is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern , Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby....
     (1991)
  • The Simpsons (season 2)
    The Simpsons (season 2)

    The Simpsons second season originally aired between October 11, 1990 in television and May 9, 1991 in television, and contained 22 episodes, beginning with "Bart Gets an F"....
    , Three Men and a Comic Book
    Three Men and a Comic Book

    ?Three Men and a Comic Book? is the 21st episode of the second season of The Simpsons. The title is a parody on the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby and the 1990 sequel Three Men and a Little Lady....
     (1991) Animated TV Series
  • Home Alone
    Home Alone

    Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
     (1990)
  • The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
  • My Blue Heaven
    My Blue Heaven (1990 film)

    My Blue Heaven is a 1990 comedy film crime film film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Nora Ephron and starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack....
     (1990)
  • Coupe de Ville
    Coupe de Ville (film)

    Coupe de Ville is an American film directed by Joe Roth and released in 1990 in film. It stars Daniel Stern , Arye Gross and Patrick Dempsey as three very different brothers asked by their father to drive the titular Cadillac DeVille to Florida....
     (1990)
  • Little Monsters
    Little Monsters

    Little Monsters is a 1989 in film comedy-drama Cinema of the United States starring Fred Savage as Brian Stevenson, a sixth-grader who has recently moved to a new town, and Howie Mandel as Maurice, the monster under the bed....
     (1989)
  • Leviathan (1989)
  • Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics (1989)
  • The Milagro Beanfield War
    The Milagro Beanfield War

    The Milagro Beanfield War is an United States drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by Nichols and David S....
     (1988)
  • The Wonder Years
    The Wonder Years

    The Wonder Years is an United States television Comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on American Broadcasting Company, from 1988 in television through 1993 in television....
     (1988 to 1993(series end)) TV Series
  • D.O.A. (1988)
  • Weekend War
    Weekend war

    Weekend War is a 1988 television movie starring Daniel Stern and Stephen Collins. The plot concerns a rag-tag group of US Army reservists who are deployed to Honduras to build a runway....
     (1988)
  • Born in East L.A.
    Born in East L.A.

    Born in East L.A. is a 1987 in film comedy film written and directed by Cheech Marin, formerly of the Cheech & Chong comedy team.The movie is about a Chicano whom authorities deport to Tijuana even though he was born in East Los Angeles, California and thus has American citizenship....
     (1987)
  • The Boss' Wife
    The Boss' Wife

    The Boss's Wife is a 1986 in film United States comedy film directed by Ziggy Steinberg and starring Daniel Stern, Arielle Dombasle and Christopher Plummer...
     (1986)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....
     (1986)
  • Hometown
    Hometown

    Hometown is primarily used as a generic term for the city or town in which someone was born or grew up, or the place of someone's principal residence....
     (1985) TV Series
  • Key Exchange
    Key exchange

    Key exchange is any method in cryptography by which key s are exchanged between users, allowing use of a cryptographic algorithm.If Alice and Bob wish to exchange encrypted messages, each must be equipped to decrypt received messages and to encrypt sent messages....
     (1985)
  • The Ratings Game
    The Ratings Game

    The Ratings Game, a.k.a. The Mogul, is a 1984 Cable television television movie directed by Danny DeVito and produced by David Jablin....
     (1984)
  • Frankenweenie
    Frankenweenie

    Frankenweenie is a Short subject directed by Tim Burton, and co-written by Burton with Leonard Ripps. It is a parody of, and homage to, the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name....
     (1984)
  • C.H.U.D.
    C.H.U.D.

    C.H.U.D. is an American B-movie-horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer....
     (1984)
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1984 film)

    Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television movie adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max Von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature, who played Samson in the Samson and Delilah , having a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson....
     (1984)
  • Get Crazy
    Get Crazy

    Get Crazy is a 1983 in film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern , and Ed Begley, Jr.....
     (1983)
  • Blue Thunder
    Blue Thunder

    Blue Thunder is a 1983 in film feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider....
     (1983)
  • I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can is a 1982 in film United States biographical film directed by Jack Hofsiss. The screenplay by David Rabe is based on the memoir of the same title by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon, whose addiction to and difficult withdrawal from Diazepam serves as the basis of the plot....
     (1982)
  • Diner
    Diner (film)

    Diner is a 1982 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon , Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films"....
     (1982)
  • Honky Tonk Freeway
    Honky Tonk Freeway

    Honky Tonk Freeway is a comedy film, released in August 1981 by Universal Studios. The film's plot centers around the residents of a small, fictional Florida tourist town named Ticlaw, as they react to news that a new highway being constructed near their town will not include an exit for them ....
     (1981)
  • It's My Turn
    It's My Turn

    "It's My Turn" is a 1980 song, which was also developed into a film of the same name. The song, written by Carole Bayer Sager and Michael Masser for Diana Ross, was released as a single and became a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number nine....
     (1980)
  • One Trick Pony (1980)
  • Stardust Memories
    Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories is a 1980 in film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point....
     (1980)
  • A Small Circle of Friends
    A Small Circle of Friends

    A Small Circle of Friends is a film released in 1980 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Brad Davis , Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelly Long, and an uncredited Craig Richard Nelson, who played Bell in The Paper Chase, another film set at Harvard....
     (1980)
  • Starting Over
    Starting Over (film)

    Starting Over is a 1979 film which tells the story of a recently divorced man who is torn between his new girlfriend and his ex-wife . It costars Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton and Mary Kay Place....
     (1979)
  • Breaking Away
    Breaking Away

    Breaking Away is a 1979 in film coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned Indiana Limestone quarry....
     (1979)


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