In the past, I have a recorded articles about my favorite sports movies and there are leg classics. But what about young people and children? The movie The sand lobe The other day comes to mind, which takes me to this article by asking the question “Where are they now?” With that I have chosen four films that succeeded, but the themes focused on a small or preteen child. This is part I of the four films that will be reviewed.
This series of articles will identify those actors who starred in these films and where they are today. From The sand lobe It was already mentioned, we will start there.
The sand lobe
This film was based in 1962 and, although I was only three years old at that time, the daily life of this group of children in the neighborhood was followed and much of its show show in the film is exactly how I spent my days in Pituring. The cast was a colorful and fun cast of actors that made this movie an instant success.
The story focused on how one of the children, Scotty Smalls steals a self -ographer baseball of this stepfather of this stepfather and uses it in the baseball games that he and his friends were playing everything without knowing who Babe Ruth was. The ball is beaten in the courtyard of a neighbor, where they believe that it is a vicious dog looms on the ball and children must find a way to recover it.
Here is the main cast of characters with their real name and movie name in the parents.
Art Lafleur (the baby)
This actor was well established in Hollywood that appeared in many films from 1978 to 2017. However, more interesting about Lafleur is that it is that it is that The sand lobe It was not his only sports film in which he played a role. He played the role of former baseball player Chick Gandil of the infamous scandal of the black socks of Chicago’s white mediums in the film in the film Field of Dreams.
In the movie Mr. BaseballLafleur’s role was that of a coach for the New York Yankees. Four years after his role of final acting, Art Lafleur died after suffering complications of Parkinson’s disease on November 12, 2021, when he was 78 years old.
Tom Guiry (Scotty Smalls)
One of the main characters of the film was Smalls. As with his group of friends, in the movie this preteen (Guiry was real 12 at the time of the moment of filming) creates the story of the film with a ball of his stepfather and then losing it in the courtyard of a neighbor who comes out of an exhaustive ball.
Originally from New Jersey, at 43 he is still an actor, but he has not appeared in the film since 2021 when he acted in the movie The Unforgiven. Guiry has also played television parts that include periods with Law and Order, CSI Miami, Elementaryand Chicago justice.
Mike Vitar (Benjamin Franklin Rodríguez)
The true star of the film is to viti that among the group of young baseball players is the only one with real talent. In fact, at the end of the film we see Benny the Jet Rodríguez playing for the Los Angeles dodgers and steals the basis of operations. In his personal life, the career as a vitar actor was short live. After the 1993 launch of The sand lobeVitar appeared in just five more films and before The sand lobe Three other films. He made a cameo Sandlot 2 that came out in 2005 and was also in D3: The powerful ducks.
In 1997, the Vitar official retired from the performance and became an EMT in Torrance, California, after which he became a firefighter that he is still on service until today. One of the three children who grew, Vitar’s older brother, Pablo, played the role of Benny Rodríguez’s major character when he was seen as a member of the Dodgers. Tragically, Pablo Vitar died of colon cancer in 2008. He had previously served as a police officer in Los Angeles. Vitar also has a sister, Elizabeth.
Patrick Renna (Hamilton ‘Ham’ Porter)
Certainly, the most fun character in this film, the renewed Renna has never lost his image. To this day it looks as he did in 1993, only older. Originally from Boston, Renna made the transition to act to produce. He and his wife Jasmin have two children and a third on the way this year. Renna has its own website at Patrickrenna.com, where you can buy the merchandise of Hambino.
In The sand lobeRenna’s character was a silly child of fun who can be remembered for trying to replicate the infamous that points to Centerfield de Babe who predicts a home run that Ruth made famous in the World Series when she seemed to do exactly that. Point and Homer. In truth, Renna was a league baseball player. When throwing by The sand lobe He was doing, Renna was in his first supply audition. He was the last character to be chosen in the movie. Renna has appeared in a variety of movies, television programs and even musical videos.
Chancey Leopardi (Michael ‘Squints’ Palledouous)
You have to love Leopardi’s character, his eyes narrowed for his scene with Wendy Peffercorn in the pool when he pretended a drowning only so that Peffercorn’s life can come with his mouth, so he hears kissing her in the Lipp. Always cheating with their eyelashes, the quotes represented the nerds everywhere, but in good sense.
Like Mike Vitar, Leopardi chose not to have a career as an actress and, on the other hand, entered business for himself and have a family. Squints was married to his wife Jennifer for 13 years before divorcing, but the two also have three children. His last appearance in the film arrived in 2018, and has also appeared in several commercials. Leopardi’s cinematographic curriculum is much longer than Vitar, but he will always be remembered for his silly glasses and his representation to strengthen the tickets.
Marley Shelton (Wendy Peffercorn)
Female attraction for children in The sand lobe It was Marley Shelton’s character. Squints was determined to steal older Peffercorn kisses and, as mentioned above, had to pretend a drowning only to achieve it. With a film career that was two years before The sand lobe In 1991, Shelton, 51, is still acting to this day with his last role in the film. Shout (2022) as Sheriff Judy Hicks. She also appeared on the television series Tracker Last year.
With two children of the husband Beau Flynn with whom he married in 2001, Shelton comes from Los Angeles. She is the sister of three other girls, of the parents Carol and Father Christopher. His younger sister Samantha is a professional singer and actress.
Denis Leary (Bill). We never got the smalls stepfather last name and, if it was said, I lost it. Leary did not have an important role as a melancholic and quiet character. Leary has had an extraordinarily long film race starring many important films. He is also a comedian and has been married to Ann Lembeck since 1989, since the couple also has two children. If you have never seen the movie Night of judgment This is a must with Leary playing the bad boy in a main role.
Leary is a firm firefighter defender in Massachusetts and his first film was Long walk forever, A short film released in 1987. Other films include Demolition man, natural born murderers, Draft Dayand two films that will be released next year, Ice age 6and Oh what fun.
Karen Allen (Smalls mother)
Another veteran of the film, probably not most of its notoriety of being in the Lost ark assailants Which premiered in 1981. Like Leary, they did not have an important role in this film. Karen Allen studied at the very prestigious Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Everyone made their first appearance in comedy Smash Animal house As Katy in 1978 gives him the opportunity to collaborate with John Belushi.
A year later, in 1979, I had an important role in The vagrants Which became a cult classic. His last film arrived a year ago with the launch of Insinguable. Allen is also a veteran or television and programs with apparitions in programs such as Knots Landing, Alfred Hitchock presentsand Public order. This October will all comply 74.
James Earl Jones (Mr. Mertle)
James Earl Jones is one of the great actors of our time. With an incredible voice that was identifiable at the time he heard it, Jones found himself acting in 1953 and starred in films until 2021. He died on September 9, 2024, at the age of 93 years in Pawling, New York. Native of Arkabutla, Mississippi, Jones married a son twice.
In The sand lobeJones played the neighbor in front of the baseball game area for children and the owner of the beast when the children called him that he held the infamous baby Ruth Autofed Baseball as a hostage while the group of young people tried to find a way to capture it. At the end of the film, the gang discovered that Mr. Mertle was a retired professional baseball player who played against Babe Ruth.
In his film career, James Earl Jones, an Oscar, three Emmy awards, a Golden Globe Award, One Grammy, a Guild prize for Screen actors and three times tok home to Tony Award. Among all those honors, it was nominated 26 times.
The remaining actors who formed the baseball group playing friends in the film were:
- Marty York (Alan ‘Yeah-Yeah’ McClennan)
- Brandon Quintin Adams (Kenny Denunez)
- Grant Gelt (Bertram Grover Weekly)
- Shane Obedzinski (Tommy ‘Repeat’ Timmons)
- Victor Dimattia (Timmy Timmons)
If he is curious about the movie of the film, called Hercules, he was borrowed by his owner, but in some scenes, a puppet was used to represent that part of the film. Two men were put to work inside the large puppet so that the dog seems real.
The real name of the dog was gunner and if you want to know your complete story about its real owners and what it went from it, you can find that story here. As he will read in this article, the dog died in his dream 13 years after his birth.
25 years after the 1993 launch of The sand lobeMuch of the cast met in 2018 in a brief YouTube segment that can be seen in this link.
In part II, I will look at another classic again The bad news.
