Biography
Best known for his roles as a goofy, callow youth in films like Spring Break, Splash, Total Recall, and Turner and Hooch, David is a veteran in the industry with a career that spans over four decades.
Known For
Complete Filmography
To Kill a Wolf
2024
as The Rancher
In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her...
Pig
2021
as Finway
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol
1992
as (voice)
When Brer Rabbit learns that Brer Fox is planning to evict Brer Bear on Christmas, he decides to teach the fox a lesson. Brer Rabbit gets the townspeo...
Jailbirds
1991
as Baxter
Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed t...
My Blue Heaven
1990
as Checker
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...
Total Recall
1990
as Ernie
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory im...
Turner & Hooch
1989
as Ernie
Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemean...
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
1989
as Booge
Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentall...
Gidget's Summer Reunion
1985
as Albert Winslow
Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a va...
High School U.S.A.
1984
Principal of Excelsior High School deals with a rivalry between student groups and his own interest in the new counselor.
Splash
1984
as Claude
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a merma...
September Gun
1983
as Jason, Ben's Nephew
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group o...
Spring Break
1983
as Nelson
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
Making Love
1982
as Michael
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Bitter Harvest
1981
as Brandon
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the political...
The Devil and Max Devlin
1981
as Nerve Nordlinger
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell hi...
A Christmas Without Snow
1980
as Terry
A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leav...
Life on the Mississippi
1980
Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of loc...
Belle Starr
1980
as Ed Reed
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
Sitra Achra
N/A
as Freddy Nord
A retro video game collector uncovers a prototype cartridge called "Sitra Achra", which disappeared after its creator did in 1985. The collector grows...