Dean Richard Collins (born May 30, 1990) is an American former actor, best known for playing the character Mike Gold in the

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'' The War at Home''. The series ran from September 2005 to April 2007. Previously, he had recurring roles in ''

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''s "Reading Caboose" skit as Ernie, and as Warren Feide in ''

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''. Collins also appeared as Harry Beardsley in the 2005 film '' Yours, Mine & Ours'', as Garrett in the 2006 film ''

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'', and in the 2008 film ''The Least of These''. In 2011, Collins was cast in the

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episode of

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's ''Lost and Found''. Collins makes regular appearances as the unofficial part time, sometimes co-host on actor

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's podcast, ''I Am Rapaport''.

Personal life

Collins was born in Los Angeles,

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. He has a younger sister, and two older brothers, Blake Collins, a professional singer-songwriter, and Nick Collins, who works at a full scale talent agency in Beverly Hills. Collins is Jewish. Collins became good friends with fellow actor

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, while playing his character's best friend in ''Jack & Bobby'', and they remained close after the series' cancellation. They worked together again on ''Hoot'', where Collins had a supporting role. In their spare time, the two collaborated on creating short comedic films, which they uploaded to

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under their joint account name of "monkeynuts1069". Collins and Lerman also formed a band called Indigo, along with musician Daniel Pashman. Collins sang lead vocals, Lerman played keyboard and guitar, and Pashman played drums.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Dean 1990 births Male actors from Los Angeles American male child actors American male film actors American male television actors Living people American Jews Jewish actors