Attended Zion Lutheran School in Anaheim, California. While in fifth grade, he portrayed 8th-grader Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), which evolved into California High School (1989) and its various television movies and spin-offs. Also appeared in the television series Wunderbare Jahre (1988).

• Saved by the Bell (1989)

  
• Yogi's Great Escape (1987)

  
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993)

  
• A Dog for Christmas (2015)

  
• Attack of the Killer B-Movies (1995)