Talk:David Hollander

Which David Hollander?

@SJ Morg: In this edit you added a line to the article that David Hollander was a former child actor. But how do you know that the child actor named David Hollander is the same person as the writer-producer? IMDb has them listed separately; it says that the child actor (who was in The McLean Stevenson Show and Airplane!) was born in 1969 in Los Angeles, while the David Hollander who was executive-producer of The Guardian and Ray Donovan was born in 1968 and went to school in Pittsburgh. Mathew5000 (talk) 23:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

It appears that edit was a mistake, and I have now removed the text and cats related to acting. I am surprised that Wikipedia has no article on the former child actor, who appeared (or made guest-appearances) in quite a few movies and TV shows (more than are listed by IMDb; he is listed on five different pages of this book). I should have checked more carefully, but it's very surprising that there could be two people working in screen entertainment with the exact same name (and Hollander is not really a common name) who were born just months apart. And the photo of writer-director Hollander in the 2004 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article linked here even looks like I would imagine a 34-year-old version of the former child actor might look, with same hair color and similar face. Someone else (not me) added the IMDb bio of the former child actor, and I have also removed that. Perhaps a disambiguation page listing the three David Hollanders – the two with WP articles and a red link (David Hollander (actor)) for the former child actor – would help prevent others from making the same error that I did, but I don't have enough interest in any of this to want to create one. In that earlier edit, I was just trying to remove what I considered a significant omission when I stumbled across it. Anyway, thanks, Matthew5000, for spotting this error. SJ Morg (talk) 08:39, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Okay thanks. I found a few links about David Hollander the former child actor (listing them here just in case anyone ever wants to create an article for him, I will post on "Requested articles"):

• David Hollander photo (2009) from Getty Images
• blog post by David Hollander (APM Music)
• JackMc (2011-11-10). "What ever happened to..... Little Earl from the TV show What's Happening!! played by David Hollander".
• Jessica Hundley (2002-07-14). "The Tracks of the Past Are Music to His Ears". Los Angeles Times. Hollander's formative experience as a child actor in the '70s (he was in the 1980 comedy "Airplane!" and spent two years on the sitcom "What's Happening!!") has fueled the fires of both his local DJ performances (spinning under Lil' Earl, a version of his "What's Happening!!" moniker) and his "Cinemaphonic" discoveries.
• "David Hollander". Internet Accuracy Project. There are actually several different individuals by the name of "David Hollander" in the entertainment/literary fields. The fact that two of them were born just a year apart, has led a few sources to confuse data between them. There's a David Hollander who's a writer, another who's a writer/producer, one who worked in Europe for Disney back in the 1980s, and a former child actor who has successfully segued into the music industry. [I don't know whether this website is a reliable source but it has a fair bit of detail about David Hollander the former actor and music producer.]
• Mark Padgett (2002-07-11). "During the '70s and '80s,..." Orlando Weekly.
• NPR All Things Considered (2004)

Mathew5000 (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

I needed this!! I am listening to the audiobook of “Surely, you can’t be Serious”, the memoir of the creation of the movie Airplane! so came to read about what happened to the boy in the movie. I, too, was thrown off by the name and date similarities. This section very well clarified things for me. Thanks! Dhugot (talk) 18:27, 30 November 2023 (UTC)