BRANDON CALL

February 6th, 2010 | Author: ztams

He was an adorable little boy. He played a funny sarcastic jerk on Step By Step. He was a tough guy in real life when he got shot in both arms during road rage on the 405 in Los Angeles. Now he appears to be a doting father living a normal life. Brandon Call was a brief teen idol in the 1990′s. He was born on November 17, 1976 and began his entertainment career shortly after.

His first credited acting job was a small role in a 1984 episode of Simon & Simon. He also portrayed Brandon Capwell in the soap opera Santa Barbara, was in a handful of Magnum, P.I. episodes, and was Hobie on Baywatch. He did many other shows and movies, but his most substantial role was that of J.T. Lambert on Step By Step.

Step By Step was kind of a modern 1990′s Brady Bunch. It ran for seven seasons and starred Patrick Duffy (of Dallas fame), Suzanne Somers (of Three’s Company fame), and a whole bunch of kids. I always laughed at the opening credits of that show because they were so bad. The amusement park is obviously Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, California but then they have the fake water splashing up right next to the roller coaster (Colossus). I would think they could have done a better job in the 1990′s of adding in the fake water. BTW, I know my roller coasters. My husband and I were going to get married on the Goliath at Magic Mountain. We ended up getting married at city hall for $92. But I digress……

Step By Step was set in Port Washington, Wisconsin which is where loser Dustin Diamond (Screech from Saved By the Bell) lives. In addition to Brandon Call, the show starred many other young actors who would end up in the teen magazines: Sasha Mitchell (Cody), Jason Marsden (Rich Halke), Andrew Keegan (Matt Crawford), and Staci Keanan (Dana).

BRANDON CALL TRIVIA

Brandon Call auditioned and was actually cast in the role of Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years. He was replaced at the last minute by Fred Savage.
Brandon Call was supposedly asked to leave the cast of Baywatch when it was picked up for syndication. Brandon had grown so much and was almost as tall as star David Hasselhoff (and I’m sure better looking). Hasselhoff probably felt threatened so he cast a younger boy to play Hobie Buchannon. The role went to Jeremy Jackson who looked nothing like Brandon. They did a Chris Partridge.
Brandon has a daughter, born in 1998.
He was shot in both arms on September 3, 1996 as a result of road rage on the 405 in Southern California. I think he was on his way home from a Step By Step taping.

Brandon Call has retired from acting and is currently being a dad to his middle school aged daughter. He lives in Southern California and reportedly helps out at his parents’ gas station and car wash. He’s a normal guy living a normal life. Nothing wrong with that.

UPDATE: According to Brandon’s daughter Amanda, he is now in real estate.

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