Wil Wheaton Filmography |
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 The Last Starfighter (1984) - Starring as Louis' Friend |
| Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) beats the Starfighter Video Game, but has been turned down for a student loan at college. Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the Game, takes Alex on the ride of his life in a flying car/spaceship. Because of the video game, he's asked to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex asks to go back home, but there he finds an alien bounty hunter is stalking him. When Alex returns to the Starfighter base though, he finds all of the pilots dead, and he must fight the invaders alone. |
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| Stand by Me (1986) - Starring as Gordie Lachance |
| This movie tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman), and Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell) went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing, and it becomes a race to see who'll be able to recover the body first. |
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| The Curse (1987) - Starring as Zack |
Nathan Hayes (Claude Akins) is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Hayes family and the members of the community. |
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| Monsters (1990) (TV) - Starring in "A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites" |
This show ran from 1988 to 1991. It was a 30-minute weekly show that was very simple in its premise. It was written with only one or two interior scenes and a maximum of six or seven characters and always involved a monster.
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| Toy Soldiers (1991) - Starring as Joseph 'Joey' Trotta |
Billy Tepper (Sean Astin) is the leader of a group of guys at The Regis School.Billy and many other kids at the school have influential and prominent parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis school to take the son of the judge in charge of the case hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realizes who the parents of the rest of the students are, he decides that they would be an even better bargaining chip.
- Joey Trotta is Billy's best friend, and is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia. |
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Tales from the Crypt (1993) (TV) - Starring as Arling in "House of Horror" |
This horror anthology always started and ended with the Crypt Keeper rattling off a ghoulish pun, and featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor. Each show always had a twisted ending of sorts.
In this episode, three pledges for a fraternity on probation and a beautiful young sorority gal, visit an abandoned house where an "urban legend" murder took place years before. Led by the head pledge master (Kevin Dillon), the three pledges must enter the house and past tests given to them. |
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| The New Outer Limits (1996) (TV) - Starring as a Cadet in "The Light Brigade" |
The New Outer Limits aired from 1995-2002 and is in the tradition of the classic anthology series. It brings back the bizarre, frightening, and disturbing while pushing the imagination to its farthest reaches.
In this episode, a young Cadet learns the difference between heroic ideals and the bitter realities of war. The only survivors on a crippled battle cruiser - Earth's last hope for victory and survivors - are the Cadet, the weapons Chief and Major John Skokes, a repatriated prisoner of war. Exposed to fatal doses of radiation when their fleet was wiped out by the aliens, they fight illness and death to launch a preemptive strike. As the awesome responsibility for success descends on him, the Cadet learns that fear is not his only enemy. |
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| Flubber (1997) - Starring as Bennett Hoenicker |
| Professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara (Marcia Gay Harden) is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. I looks like rubber, so he calls it flubber. This film is based on the 1961 Disney classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor. |
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| Deep Core (2000) - Starring as Rodney Bedecker |
Alan Morrisey (Harry VanGorkum) has developed the ultimate mining machine that uses laser energy to burrow through anything. The machine's creator destroys it, but years later, Allison Saunders (Terry Farrell) rebuilds the machine. With earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions around the world, it's up to the team with the machine to save the planet by setting off a series of subterranean nuclear explosions. Meanwhile, Daryl Simmons (James Russo) is planning to sabotage them to help the Chinese military. |
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| The Invisible Man (2001) (TV) - Starring as Dorman in "Perchance to Dream" |
Darian Fawkes is a petty thief and conman who is bailed out of jail by his brother in return for undergoing an experiment that implants a "quicksilver" gland in his head that allows him to turn invisible. His brother is killed, so he goes to work for a secret government organization in return for a counter-agent which keeps the gland from driving him insane.
In this episode, a series of bizarre killings involve murderers who have no connection to the victims. The Keeper is part of an insomnia-research project, and the scientists are using the device to create assassins. |
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006) (TV) - Starring as Walter in "Compulsion" |
In Las Vegas the Crime Scene Investigations unit is led by Gill Grissom (William Petersen). With almost obsessive dedication towards his quest for the facts, he and his elite team of investigators including Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), work using scientific skills and equipment that find clues from unlikely sources.
In this episode, a female flight attendant is raped and killed in her hotel room. Catherine's team investigate the death of a young boy in his own bed. He was beaten to death while his parents and older brother were in the house.
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