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- Birth nameDavid Arthur Niedorf
- David Neidorf was born on November 24, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Platoon (1986), Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988). He is married to Pauline Naomi Lyders. They have two children.
- SpousePauline Naomi Lyders(? - present) (2 children)
- Neidorf was the original choice to play the boy in the police station in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), but he had to drop out to appear in Hoosiers (1986). Charlie Sheen was cast as the boy instead.
- [on participating in cast reunions] It makes me feel weird. ... People see me and they kind of don't recognize me, most people, because I look really different, and it just is uncomfortable for me.
- [on the popularity of Hoosiers (1986)] Sometimes it mystifies me. I don't quite understand it.
- [on why he gave up acting] I was doing parts that were smaller. I wasn't comfortable in front of the camera, and I was losing my hair, and I knew there was gonna be a long, awkward transition until I went from boy to man. I didn't wanna push through it. I didn't have it in me to continue. And then I thought, in the back of my mind, I'll continue in my 40s or 50s, when I'm a man, and I can be like a cop on a cop show. ... You kind of have to have this relentless focus to be successful in movies.
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