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Michael Earl Schoeffling (born December 10, 1960) is an American former actor and model. He is known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles , Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken , Kuch in Vision Quest , and Joe in Mermaids .
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age teen comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct, centering on teenage life. The film follows newly 16-year-old Samantha Baker (Ringwald ...
Long Duk Dong is a fictional character who appears in Sixteen Candles, a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.Played by Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe, the character is a Chinese foreign exchange student and a supporting character in the film set at a US suburban high school.
Molly Ringwald. Jade Tillman Belmes/Getty Images for Creative Coalition Forty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American comedies. The box-office ...
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Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown; February 22, 1928) is an American character actor. He is known for his roles in Breaking Away, Popeye, Strange Brew, Sixteen Candles and various Christopher Guest mockumentaries. He co-created the PBS children's show The Electric Company.
Actor Carole Cook, who was Lucille Ball's protégé and played Grandma Helen in 'Sixteen Candles,' has died in Beverly Hills three days before her 99th birthday.
Haviland Morris is most famous for her role as Caroline Mulford in Sixteen Candles. She was also in Madonna's Who's That Girl (1987) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Morris played Karen Pruitt in Home Alone 3 in 1997 and Dr. Claire Baxter on One Life to Live from 2001–2003.