Blake McIver Ewing
Blake McIver Ewing is an actor, born 1985.
Blake McIver Ewing kept getting cast as the rich kid. Waldo in the 1994 film of The Little Rascals, the Rich Boy in Timon and Pumbaa, Corky in Problem Child 3: a very specific 1990s niche for a blond boy who could look pleased with himself on cue. Born in Los Angeles in 1985, he is a singer as well as an actor, which is how a good many of those parts tended to be cast.
Two credits outlasted the type, and both are friendships. He played Derek, Michelle's friend on Full House, a recurring part he returned to years later for Fuller House. And he voiced Eugene Horowitz on Hey Arnold! during the show's fifth season, taking over a character other actors had established, which is a harder job than originating one and goes almost entirely unnoticed when it is done well.
The rest of the record is late-1990s animation, a good deal of it Disney: additional voices in Tarzan, a boy in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Menlo across Recess and its two spin-off films, a part on Father of the Pride. He later hosted the Bravo series The People's Couch, and the singing career has continued alongside the acting.
Movies (7)
TV (6)
Where to start with Blake McIver Ewing
Everybody has seen The Little Rascals, and Waldo is the purest version of what he was hired to do: smug, immaculate, and funnier the more seriously he plays it.
Full House is the sentimental pick. Derek is a small recurring part, but it is the reason the name is still recognised, and he holds his own against a cast of established sitcom performers.
For the voice work, start with Hey Arnold! and then Hey Arnold! The Movie, since Eugene is one of the show's best supporting characters and the fifth-season episodes are his. Recess is the other big one, where Menlo is a very good running joke, with Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade as the follow-up. Tarzan and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea are Disney background credits, listed for completeness.