John Franklin is best remembered for playing Isaac Chroner in the 1984 film Children of the Corn and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family. Franklin was born with a growth hormone deficiency and as a result he is under 5ft tall. John started his career doing commercials and was picked up for Children of the Corn a year later. The role jumpstarted his acting career but following 9/11 Franklin decided to return to teaching because he felt that acting was “shallow”.
At the end of 2016 Franklin, who is now 58, announced that he was retiring from teaching. He explained that he wanted to reprise his career as a writer and actor and concentrate on creative writing projects. He is currently working on several projects, including a fiction novel.
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This young actor also played the role in the original Japanese versions of the film. He had a cat phobia on set which made filming some of the cat scenes a little difficult but the film turned out to be a huge commercial success.
He still works on screen in Japan (he is now 21) and recently starred in a show called Oyaji no senaka (Fathers).
2 Dark Water - Ariel Gade
Ariel Gade appeared in her first film at the age of four when she played Ben Stiller’s daughter in the film Envy. This is was a supporting role but it led to her being cast the play one of the main characters in the 2005 film Dark Water. In the film she plays the part of Ceci, a little girl that is haunted by the ghost of a girl who drowned in her apartment building. She then appeared in Invasion as Rose Varon, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and Call of the Wild.
He most recent role was in Some Guy Who Kills People which came out in 2011. The young actress now 20 decided to retire following this movie in order to concentrate on school and family.
1 The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel