Alex D. Linz

Alexander David Linz (born January 3, 1989)[1] is an American former child actor who starred in several late 1990s and early 2000s films and television programs. His film roles include Home Alone 3 (1997) and Max Keeble's Big Move (2001).

Alex D. Linz
Born	Alexander David Linz January 3, 1989 Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Other names	Alex Linz
Education	B.A., UC Berkeley M.U.R.P., UCLA (2017)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–2007

Early life

Linz was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Deborah Baltaxe, an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz, a professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] His parents are divorced, and he lived with his mother. He has two younger sisters named Lily Alice and Livia. Linz is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.[3]

He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles during which time he was the lead singer of a local garage band named "The Fez Armada". After he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the improvisation and sketch comedy group, jericho!. Linz received a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA in 2017.[4]

Career

Acting

Linz made his acting debut in 1995 on an episode of the television series Cybill. He subsequently appeared in several television productions, played Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1995 for a short period of time, and was cast as the son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in the 1996 film One Fine Day.[5] In 1997, Linz replaced Macaulay Culkin as the lead actor in Home Alone 3, and voiced both a young Tarzan in the 1999 animated film and a human boy named Franklin in the live-action/animated direct-to-video series The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, which was produced by Klasky Csupo for participating McDonald's restaurants from 1998 to 2003.

Linz had several starring roles in 2000s films aimed at younger audiences, including 2001's Max Keeble's Big Move, in which he played the title character, 2002's Race to Space, which received a minor theatrical release, and 2003's Hanukkah-themed made-for-television Disney Channel film Full-Court Miracle, in which he played the lead player in a Jewish school's basketball team. He had a provocative starring role as an eccentric spelling prodigy with a penchant for cross-dressing and fashion in Bruno.

Linz appeared in the comedy The Amateurs, starring Jeff Bridges. He appeared in the 2007 short Order Up as a busboy. His final film role was in the 2007 political film Choose Connor as Owen Norris, alongside Steven Weber.

Non-acting work

Linz was a lead science instructor at Galileo Learning, a pedestrian programs intern at the City of Los Angeles, a strategy and planning department intern at Metrolink, and a legal researcher for Smith & Baltaxe, LLP.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Cable Guy	Tony	Uncredited
1996	One Fine Day	Sammy Parker
1997	Home Alone 3	Alex Pruitt
1998	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly	Franklin (voice)	Direct-to-VHS episodic short-film
1999	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Legend of Grimace Island	Franklin (voice)	Direct-to-VHS episodic short-film
1999	Tarzan	Young Tarzan (voice)
1999	My Brother the Pig	Freud
2000	Bruno	Bruno Battaglia
2000	Titan A.E.	Young Cale Tucker (voice)
2000	Bounce	Scott Janello
2001	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Birthday World	Franklin (voice)	Direct-to-VHS episodic short-film
2001	Max Keeble's Big Move	Max Keeble
2001	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Have Time, Will Travel	Franklin (voice)	Direct-to-VHS episodic short-film
2001	Race to Space	Wilhelm "Billy" von Huber
2002	Red Dragon	Young Francis Dolarhyde (voice)
2005	The Amateurs	Billy
2007	Order Up	Busboy	Short film
2007	Choose Connor	Owen Norris

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Cybill	Jason	Episode: "The Replacements"
1995	Vanished	Teddy	Television film
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jesse Stipanovic	Episode: "Chip Off the Old Clark"
1995	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Son, Little Boy (voice)	Episode: "A Room with No Viewfinder/Krumm Rises to the Top"
1995	Step by Step	Howie	Episode: "The Flight Before Christmas"
1995	The Young and the Restless	Phillip Chancellor IV
1996	The Uninvited	Jonathan Johnson	Television film
2000	Touched by an Angel	Joey	Episode: "Stealing Hope"
2000	ER	Dennis	Episode: "Mars Attacks"
2001	The Jennie Project	Andrew Archibald	Television film
2001–02	Providence	Pete Calcatera	19 episodes
2002	Hey Arnold!	Arnold (voice)	2 episodes
2003	Full-Court Miracle	Alex Schlotsky	Television film
2004	Crossballs: The Debate Show	PSA kid	Episode: "Drugs"
2004	Jack & Bobby	Hunter	Episode: "The Kindness of Strangers"

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1999	Tarzan	Young Tarzan
2001	Nicktoons Racing	Arnold

References

1. "Alexander David Linz, Born 01/03/1989 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
2. Alex D. Linz Biography (1989–)
3. "the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles". Chanukah Hoop Dreams. 2003-11-20. Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2006.
4. "Alex Linz". Global Public Affairs. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
5. "Alex D. Linz". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

External links

• Alex D. Linz at IMDb