# Whatever happened to...(insert actor here)?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 3, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-insert-actor-here/107038 "2002-05-03T11:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-insert-actor-here/107038/41 "2002-05-06T20:23:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by c-of-cyn \*  
> \*\*Matthew Labourteaux (Albert Quinn Ingalls), Jason Bateman (James Cooper Ingalls) as well as some of the other kids from **Little House on the Prarie** fame - other than Melissa Gilbert that is. She’s been all over Monday Night Movies of the Week for years, not to mention her recent Screen Actors Guild drama. \*\*

Oo! **Matthew Laborteaux** , that’s a good one. I remember he made a few really bad B-type movies like “My Deadly Friend”. After Little House, he was on a series called _Whiz Kids_ and was pretty much last seen on the small screen in a made for TV movie called _The Last to Go_. He and his brother founded the Youth Rescue Fund to assist runaways.

His brother, **Patrick Labyorteaux** , (different spelling, but they ARE brothers) who also had a part on Little House (as Andy Garvey) as as been faring much better. He’s had a slew of bit parts (he was one of the doomed jocks in the movie _Heathers_) and went on to the roll of sidekick on _JAG_

**Jason Bateman** (the brother of _Family Ties_ Justine Bateman, IIRC) went on from Little House to play Ricky…er. RICK Schroeder’s best buddy on _Silver Spoons_, then got his own series about a kid who was at odds with his step-father called _It’s Your Move_(I saw a few episodes – it wasn’t great, but not horrible). He did a few TV-movies and _Teen Wolf Too_. I saw one episode of a shoddy TV series about three brohters sharing an apartment in Chicago. More recently they tried out a new series a la “Odd Couple” called _Some of My Best Friends_ in which he was a young gay name who sahred an apartment with a macho-but-loveable, doofus who didn’t realize his new housemate was gay. Didn’t last long either (I saw the pilot episode – pretty bad). The IMDB says he has a few movies coming out this year.

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**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-insert-actor-here/107038/42 "2002-05-07T05:55:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \*  
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> She was diagnosed with uterine cancer and had a radical hysterectomy. \*\*

Well, between that and **abidude** ’s post I now officially feel like crap. ☹

It will go nicely with how my life’s been going.

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**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-insert-actor-here/107038/43 "2002-05-08T01:15:06Z")

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**Jason Bateman** also had a part in The Sweetest Thing, a relatively recent Cameron Diaz movie.

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