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Erik MacArthur is an American actor, director and writer who was born in Hawaii in 1976. He is known for his roles in Pleasantville, We Were Soldiers and Salute Your Shorts, among others.
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- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Sep 21, 2023 · Erik MacArthur Went on To Become a Director While his work in front of the cameras earned him recognition, other aspects of filmmaking appealed to the Nickelodeon star much more. After his stint as Michael Stein on ‘Salite Your Shorts,’ he worked on several acclaimed predictions like ‘Pleasantville,’ ‘George & Leo’ and ‘We Were ...
Erik MacArthur is an actor and director who was born in Hawaii in 1976. He starred in Salute Your Shorts, Pleasantville, We Were Soldiers and Bottoms Up, among other projects.
- October 15, 1976
Erik MacArthur (born on October 15, 1976 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an actor\director who is known for his role as Michael Stein on the first season of the Nickelodeon series Salute Your Shorts. After the show's first season, Erik left the show and took a break from acting to focus on school.
- Michael Bower as Eddie “Donkeylips” Gelfen
- Danny Cooksey as Robert "Bobby" Budnick
- Erik Macarthur as Michael Stein
- Blake Sennett as Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky
- Kirk Baily as Kevin "Ug" Lee
- Trevor Eyster as Eugene “Sponge” Harris
- Heidi Lucas as Dina Alexander
- Venus Demilo Thomas as Telly Radford
- Megan Berwick as Z.Z. Ziff
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Eddie “Donkeylips” Gelfen is the “muscle” of the group of kids, though he generally has an amiable and kind personality. Michael Bower played Donkeylips as part of the ensemble cast of Salute Your Shorts and afterward had a solid career in television, movies, and video games. He has appeared in episodes of Friends, The X-Files, Monk, and Bones, and...
Danny Cooksey played Robert “Bobby” Budnick, the camp bully in the early parts of Salute Your Shorts season 1 who eventually softens and becomes something of the leader of the camp. Prior to being cast in Salute Your Shorts, Cooksey was a child actor known for playing Sam on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, and as a teen, he appeared as John Connor's ...
Michael Stein was the original protagonist in season 1 of Salute Your Shorts and is the first victim of the titular prank. He and Bobby often butted heads, but when Erik MacArthur left the show before season 2, Michael was written off as having chicken pox. This was MacArthur’s first acting role, and he only appeared in a handful of movies and TV S...
Blake Sennett, who went by the stage name Blake Soper at the time, replaced Erik MacArthur as the protagonist in season 2 as Ronald “Ronnie” Foster Pinsky. Ronnie is a much more suave character and so more of a foil to Bobby. Sennett only appeared in a handful of TV shows after being cast in Salute Your Shorts, including Boy Meets World which he le...
Kevin “Ug” Lee is the older camp counselor on Salute Your Shorts who is perpetually grumpy and annoyed. Ug was played by Kirk Baily in his first major role. After being in the cast of Salute Your Shorts, he went on to a long and successful live-action and voice-acting career in movies and television, particularly in anime. He voiced the Decepticon ...
Trevor Eyster, who was Tim Eyster before legally changing his name, plays Sponge Harris, the smart kid of the group, in the cast of Salute Your Shorts. Eyster stopped acting for nearly 21 years after the end of Salute Your Shorts except for a small role in Babylon 5 as a one-episode character named Simon. In 2014, he appeared in one episode of Bone...
Dina Alexander is the pretty girl at the camp who many of the other characters had a crush on but who also often had her head in the clouds. Dina was played by Heidi Lucas in her first on-screen role. Lucas only acted in a handful of productions in the years after being cast in Salute Your Shorts, including a one-episode stint on Boy Meets World as...
Venus DeMilo Thomas played Telly Radford on Salute Your Shorts. Telly is a sports-obsessed over-achiever, who also tends to be the one with the most common sense out of the campers. Thomas appeared in a number of TV shows in supporting and guest roles after being cast in Salute Your Shorts, including Lydia on My So-Called Life, Gail on Party of Fiv...
Z.Z. Ziff is the nature-obsessed one of the group and loves hiking and camping even if she doesn’t always know how to communicate with her fellow campers. Z.Z. was played by Megan Berwick in Salute Your Shorts in her second role. Her first came on Full House where she had a one-episode appearance as a party guest. Berwick had one small role after b...
Erik MacArthur played Michael Stein, the original protagonist of season 1, in the Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts. He left the show after one season and pursued a career in movies and music, including the film Pleasantville and the band Night Terrors of 1927.
- Zachary Moser
- Senior Staff Writer
Sep 22, 2016 · How did Salute Your Shorts, a Nickelodeon comedy about preteens at Camp Anawanna, manage to create a good ensemble without a clear main character? The show explored the quirks and journeys of each camper, from Michael (Erik MacArthur) to Pinsky (Blake Soper), with humor and heart.
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Erik MacArthur is an American actor, director, and writer. He is best known for his roles in the films The Last Samurai (2003), The Island (2005), and The Hangover Part III (2013). He has also appeared in television series such as The O.C., CSI: Miami, and NCIS. MacArthur was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Los Angeles, California.
