In the following year, he made a Walt Disney feature film called The Last Flight of Noah's Ark with Elliott Gould. would fly to Los Angeles to see his wife and son. He moved to Los Angeles with his mother, but his father remained in New York and kept his job with AT&T. He toured the locales of Asia and Europe, even meeting the Queen of England and the Pope.įollowing his role in The Champ, Schroder was removed from school by his parents in the third grade to focus on his career. Schroder performed so well in his first role, that in 1980 he was nominated for and subsequently won a Golden Globe award for Best New Male Star of the Year in a Motion Picture at the age of nine.Īfter winning the Golden Globe, Schroder embarked on a three-month publicity tour around the world. Leaping from commercials to the silver screen, Schroder made his acting debut as the son of Jon Voight's character in the 1979 remake of the 1931 film The Champ. He appeared in many catalogs, and by the time he was six years old, he had appeared in sixty advertisements. In his own words, he must have been a natural, because he started working right away, never having taken an acting lesson in his life. A good-looking child, Schroder's mother began taking him to photo shoots when he was only three months old. After his older sister, Dawn and he were born Rick's mother quit her job to raise the children. He is the son of Diane, an employee at AT&T which is also the same company that employed his father, Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr. Schroder was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York and raised on Staten Island, New York City. He has continued acting as an adult, notably on the western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), and the crime-drama series NYPD Blue. He debuted in the film The Champ (1979), going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons. (born April 13, 1970) is an American actor and film director.
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