Sean Marshall (actor)
Sean Marshall ( * June 19, 1965 in Canoga Park, California, USA ) is a former American actor. Known worldwide made him the leading role of the orphan boy Pete in the Walt Disney fantasy musical Pete's Dragon ( Pete's Dragon, 1977).
Life and work
Sean Marshall had from 1973 first film and television appearances, including in the Western Until the last breath ( The Deadly Trackers, 1973) on the side of Richard Harris. But it was his role in Pete's Dragon, the known and briefly made him a child star. The main role of the orphan boy Pete who also demanded vocals, demanded of him why special skill since he first had to operate completely alone in front of an illuminated with sodium vapor lamps focusing screen in many visual effects shots in which the dragon Elliot was incorporated as a cartoon character later. He could only imagine his imaginary counterpart. For his portrayal of Sean Marshall in 1978 received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Actor. In 1978 he was to do it again in a Disney movie, as he spoke, the main figure of the boy in the directed by Don Bluth animated short The donkey of Bethlehem (The Small One).
His television appearances include the 13-part series, The Fitzpatricks, in which he portrayed Max Fitzpatrick, and the TV movie The New Adventures of Heidi ( 1978). In this musical variation of Johanna Spyri's Heidi Sean Marshall played alongside Katy Kurtzman, Burl Ives and John Gavin the ( goatherd ) Peter. His most recent appearance in front of the camera he had in 1980 in the television film My dreams are colorful (To Race the Wind ). After he retired from acting.