Attended Zion Lutheran School in Anaheim, California. While in fifth
grade, he portrayed 8th-grader Samuel "Screech" Powers in the
television series
Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987),
which evolved into
California High School - Pausenstreß und erste Liebe (1989)
and its various television movies and spin-offs. Also appeared in the
television series
Wunderbare Jahre (1988).