Martin Hewitt

Martin Hewitt is an American former actor who won his first screen role, David Axelrod in Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981), while studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena and working as a bartender and parking attendant. He beat about 5,000 other actors, among them Tom Cruise and Timothy Hutton, for the part. Raised partly in California, England, Belgium and Michigan, he first acted at 14 in his school's staging of The King and I and had studied business at a community college before turning to theater. His debut drew mostly neutral reviews. He played the son of Graham Chapman's character in Yellowbeard (1983), then appeared in Killer Party (1986), The Falling (1986) and Two Moon Junction (1988) as Chad, the fiancé of Sherilyn Fenn's character. He retired from acting in 2003 after a guest role on ER.