Noah Hathaway, who played Atreyu in the 1984 film adaptation of The Neverending Story, is now a professional artist. He was also in Battlestar Galactica and Troll.
Hathaway hopes to return to acting. “I would like to act again,” he said. “It’s not something that I’m actively doing, but if they call me, I’ll be there! I love being an actor.”
Noah Hathaway played Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story. He also had roles in other movies, including Troll (1986) and The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990).
Hathaway was born on November 13, 1971 in Los Angeles, California. His mother is Judy Hathaway. She is a former actress and model. Noah’s father is Thomas Hathaway. He was a set designer and a background actor on several TV shows, including Star Trek and Hawaii Five-0.
Hathaway took up martial arts when he was about 10 years old. He won a different youth karate championship every year from 1981 to 1985. At age 11, he started taking kickboxing lessons from Benny “The Jet” Urquidez.
“I am the first actor to play Atreyu in a live-action film,” he says with pride. “I did some training and worked on my body to get it fit because Atreyu is supposed to be a warrior. It was fun, but I had to take care of myself.”
“For the first two or three weeks, I was really depressed because I was homesick for my family and friends,” he says. “But then I started making friends on the set and meeting new people, so it got better.”
He spent two months shooting in Prague. Then he had six weeks off before starting to film in Los Angeles. In Prague, he was living in a hotel with his mom and dad; in L.A., he lived at home.
Noah Hathaway is best known for his roles as Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story and for portraying Boxey on the original TV series Battlestar Galactica. He is also well known for his role as Jake Dunkelman in the 1986 TV series The Young Ones.
He was born in Los Angeles, California, Hathaway started acting at age three, when he appeared in a McDonald’s commercial. Over the next two years he appeared in many more commercials, including one for the Mattel Hot Wheels toy line. At the age of six, he had a major role as “Duane” in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), a blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg.
After E.T., he starred alongside his sister, Heather Hathaway, in Alan Rudolph’s Remember My Name (1978). He also starred with Lesley Ann Warren and Conrad Bain in the short-lived 1983 television series We Got It Made. From 1983 to 1985, he played young “Hobie Buchannon” on NBC’s prime time TV series Baywatch. He also appeared on a 1983 episode of Little House on the Prairie with Patrick Swayze and Shannen Doherty. In 1986, Hathaway starred as
Bastian is a shy, friendless boy who likes to read books and daydream in his school’s attic. To escape the schoolyard bullies, he hides in the school’s attic where he finds the book The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Despite the warnings of Carl Conrad Coreander, the kindly owner of an antiquarian bookstore, Bastian begins reading the book. As he reads on, he becomes engrossed in the story of Fantasia and its young warrior Atreyu. The Empress commands that Atreyu go on a quest to discover a cure to save Fantasia from The Nothing. In return she will grant any wish that he desires.
Meanwhile, Bastian enters Fantasia through his imagination and acts as an unseen observer during Atreyu’s mission; when Atreyu is about to be crushed by falling rocks, Bastian shouts out “Atreyu” without realizing it. Atreyu hears this and shouts back “Who said that?” Bastian realizes with amazement what he has done and shouts again “Atreyu!” Atreyu hears this again and shouts back “Where are you?”
Bastian runs off into the forest and encounters a wolf before coming across Engywook, an elf
Noah Hathaway was born on November , in LA, California, USA as Noah Leslie Hathaway. He is an actor and producer, known for The Neverending Story , Troll and Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming .
Noah Hathaway was born in Los Angeles, California, to Judy and Robert Hathaway. He had an interest in martial arts and at the age of five won his first karate tournament. At age six he landed a role as Boxey on the television series Battlestar Galactica (1978). A few years later he was cast in The Neverending Story (1984), playing a young boy who befriends a mystical warrior named Falkor who helps him on his quest to save Fantasia from The Nothing. His character rode the luck dragon Falkor, who looked like a monstrous snow-white dog with wings.
He is also noted for being the voice of Tamiel in the video game Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (2014).