Corey Feldman

Born: July 16, 1971
Where: Reseda, California

One of the stars of American cinema youth culture in the 1980s Corey Feldman had a rocky acting career. His personal life was weighed down by numerous drug problems and arrests that acted as a constraint to his developing acting career. Feldman's career peaked in the 1980's at the start of his working relationship with Corey Feldman, a.k.a. 'The Coreys'.

Feldman was born the 2/5 children on the 16/7/71 and wasted no time in becoming a star. By the age of three he had landed his first role in a McDonalds commercial amongst others becoming the family bread winner. By 1979 he was one of the regular little league playing boys on The Bad News Bears when it was turned into a CBS series from 1979-80.

This was the same year that Corey gained his fist feature film appearance in Time After Time (1979). For the next few years Corey continued to work on a number of TV shows such as Madame's Place and TV films such as Still the Beaver (1983).

In 1984, he had a supporting role in Gremlins and also played Tommy in gruesome Friday the 13th-The Final Chapter, a role he repeated again by playing a short cameo role, this time at age 12, in Friday the 13th: a New Beginning (1985). This role caught the eye of auteur Stephen Spielberg leading to the decision to cast Feldman as Clarke Mouth Devereaux the friend who claims to speak Spanish in Goonies (1985).

The years that followed brought two of Feldman¿s most memorable performances. In 1986 he played the enigmatic and volatile Teddy DuChamp in Rob Reiner's Stand By Me. The following year he appeared in sci-fi thriller The Lost Boys (1987), in which he was a comic-book loving teen who believes vampires are afoot. This was the film that as well as winning him the 1987 Youth In Film award brought Feldman together with Corey Haim, with whom he was often matched in films and TV projects from the late 80s into the 90s such as in License to Drive (1988) where Feldman played Haim¿s older and wiser brother and Dream a Little Dream (1989).

In the same year he appeared as Haim's wiser friend in and Tom Hanks' adolescent neighbour in The Burbs (1989). Feldman also played a key role in a CBS Schoolbreak Special Fifteen and Getting Straight, in which his character was vehemently anti-drug, ironically while he was having substance abuse problems.

In 1991 Feldman went through rehab for the final time, and succeeded in becoming sober with the help of the staff at Cri-Help in North Hollywood. As if a scene from a film he was busted on the 9/3/90 after LAPD stopped his car down town and found huge quantities of cocaine and heroin.

After rehab Feldman resumed where he had left of reclaiming his place back in Hollywood. Nothing changed as he played opposite his 'other half' Corey Haim (himself also a recovering substance abuser) in Blown Away (1993) and National Lampoon's Last Resort (1995)

In 1994 he had a small role in Maverick and returned to TV series as a computer nerd on the short-lived CBS series Dweebs. Corey's last substantial film role came in the Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996). Additionally, Feldman has provided the voice for Donatello in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.

After his drug problem Feldman has become much more diverse, pursuing a music career, releasing the solo album Former Child Actor in 2002, whilst still working in the studio.

In 2003, Feldman came back to screen but sadly enough in the WB reality series The Surreal Life.