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Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), usually credited as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stopped and Gods and Generals. Howell was born in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles to Christopher N. and Candice Howell. He has three siblings. His father worked as a stunt coordinator and rodeo performer. He played the role of the Red Knight in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. As a young boy, Howell wanted to be a stuntman and was a child stunt performer. He was also a rodeo star. When Howell was young, his parents divorced. Howell graduated from Saugus High School in 1984. In 1982, Howell made his film debut as Tyler in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 15 in 1981, Howell was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983). Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy Curtis, "the soulful tagalong greaser through whose eyes we see the events of the 1960s-set film unfold." Based on S.E. Hinton's bestselling 1967 novel of the same name,the coming-of-age film went on to become a cult classic. Howell's portrayal of Ponyboy was his breakthrough role, and it earned him a Young Artist Award. In 1984, Howell and his Outsiders co-star Patrick Swayze reunited for Grandview, U.S.A. and Red Dawn. Howell also had a pivotal role in Tank (1984). In 1985, he starred in Secret Admirer. After filming The Outsiders, Howell co-starred in his own television series Two Marriages, which ended after four episodes, but letters of support got it back on air. He later expressed disappointment in the series. Howell was one of two final actors in the running for the lead role of Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985); the other was Eric Stoltz. Ultimately, Michael J. Fox was cast as Marty after Stoltz was deemed wrong for the part. In 1986, Howell was a hitchhiker's target in the film The Hitcher. He also starred in the sequel, which was released in 2003. In 1986, Howell starred in Soul Man, a film in which Howell appears in Blackface. Rounding out the 1980s , Howell played the young Arturo Toscanini in Franco Zeffirelli's 1988 film Young Toscanini.
C. Thomas Howell
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for Reverse-Flash in The Mystifying Avengers
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After a falling out between Iron Man and Captain America, the Avengers disband for no reason at all. Kamala Kahn/Ms. Marvel doesn't like this and is trying to keep the team together. But, Cap and Iron Man won't listen to her. However, Justin Anderson/The Beyonder arrives and helps her out with this problem. Justin then brings her to the ruins of an old starship that crashed on Earth a while back and they spruce it up together and tells Kamala that A.I.M. is not to be trusted. They, along with the black-ops group Weapon X, have been capturing people, be they Inhuman, Mutant or normal and experiment on them and based on their performance, they would either stay or disappear. And also, the Justice League is in disarray due to Superman and Batman arguing about the contingency plans Batman had for the League, should they ever go to the side of evil or something like that. And even Young Justice is having problems. So Justin gets May Parker and Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D. to help him and Kamala form a new team of Avengers, one with a few of the surviving members and some new kids, but they got several other allies to help them out, especially Elliot Heywood, a young man who is on a mission to get rid of A.I.M. for good, to do that, Elliot fights them as Ghost Rider. Plus, a familiar face returns, who is it?
