C. Thomas Howell
Acting
Born: Dec 07, 1966
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), usually credited as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stopped and Gods and Generals. Howell was born in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles to Christopher N. and Candice Howell. He has three siblings. His father worked as a stunt coordinator and rodeo performer. He played the role of the Red Knight in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. As a young boy, Howell wanted to be a stuntman and was a child stunt performer. He was also a rodeo star. When Howell was young, his parents divorced. Howell graduated from Saugus High School in 1984. In 1982, Howell made his film debut as Tyler in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 15 in 1981, Howell was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983). Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy Curtis, "the soulful tagalong greaser through whose eyes we see the events of the 1960s-set …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| My B.F.F. | Ben Wilkins | 2016 | — |
| The Land That Time Forgot | Frost Michaels | 2009 | 3.7 |
| The Grind | Luke | 2009 | 3.4 |
| Big Game | Sully | 2008 | 3.9 |
| Toxic | LIttle Joe | 2008 | 4.231 |
| Hoboken Hollow | Clayton Connelly | 2006 | 3.762 |
| Glass Trap | Curtis | 2005 | 3.769 |
| H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds | George Herbert | 2005 | 5.261 |
| The Poseidon Adventure | Doctor Ballard | 2005 | 5.194 |
| Hidalgo | Preston Webb | 2004 | 6.904 |
| A Killer Within | Addison Terrill | 2004 | 5.025 |
| The Hillside Strangler | Kenneth Bianchi | 2004 | 5.042 |
| Net Games | Adam Vance | 2003 | 4.917 |
| The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting | Jim Halsey | 2003 | 4.744 |
| Killer Bees | Sheriff Lyndon Harris | 2002 | 3.986 |
| WillFull | Nat Wolff | 2002 | 7.333 |
| Fatal Affair | Malcolm 'Mack' Maddox | 1999 | 7.333 |
| Sleeping Dogs | Sanchez Boon | 1997 | 4.563 |
| Last Lives | Aaron | 1997 | 4.333 |
| Acting on Impulse | Paul Stevens | 1993 | 4.833 |
| That Night | Rick | 1992 | 6.373 |
| Far Out Man | Himself | 1990 | 5.413 |
| The Return of the Musketeers | Raoul | 1989 | 6.172 |
| Soul Man | Mark Watson | 1986 | 5.268 |
| The Hitcher | Jim Halsey | 1986 | 6.965 |
| Secret Admirer | Michael Ryan | 1985 | 6.727 |
| Red Dawn | Robert | 1984 | 6.305 |
| Tank | Billy | 1984 | 5.707 |
| The Outsiders | Ponyboy Curtis | 1983 | 7.191 |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Tyler | 1982 | 7.513 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1966 |
| From | Los Angeles, California, … |