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Corey Feldman, grown up child actor, continues to work in film and television


  Corey Feldman & son Zen                           (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

Corey Scott Feldman is a film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films The Goonies and Stand by Me.

Feldman started his career at the age of three, appearing in a McDonald's commercial. In his youth he appeared in over 100 television commercials, and appeared on 50 TV shows, from "Mork & Mindy" to "Eight Is Enough", to "One Day at a Time".

TV show Cheers, Time After Time and The Fox and the Hound, for Disney were projects Feldman was part of.

More movies included Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Gremlins (1984), The Goonies (1985), The Burbs (1989; opposite Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher), and Stand By Me (1986; alongside River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O'Connell).

Feldman began the '90s providing the voice of Donatello for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film.

By 2005 Feldman made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Fatal Attraction.  Feldman recently appeared in the theatrical release My Date with Drew and is currently the voice of "Sprx-77" in the Toon Disney/ABC Family series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.

In 2007, Feldman's new film, Terror Inside, was released after the premiere of the A&E show. It was filmed in the Greater Orlando area by Minott Lenders, an independent film company based in Florida. The offbeat horror film also stars his wife Susie, Tanya Memme (A&E's Sell This House), and Chad Jamian Williams.

In 2008, Warner Premiere released Lost Boys: The Tribe, a sequel to the 1987 horror film The Lost Boys, on DVD and Blu-ray. In the film, Feldman reprises his role of vampire hunter Edgar Frog. He appeared on The Soup representing himself as Frog to buy The Tribe, he was also in Lucky Fritz and The adventures of 'Belvis Bash.'

Also in 2008, Feldman released a new album produced by Feldman’s own label, Ci Fi Records, titled Technology Analogy.  In 2009, he announced on his blog that Warner Brothers hired him to star in and be executive producer for "Lost Boys 3."

Corey Feldman was recently seen, with wife Susie, at Michael Jackson's funeral.

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