Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
Class of 1984	Drugstore	1982	27
The Way West	William J. Tadlock Jr.	1967	12

Stefan Thor Arngrim, sometimes credited as Stephan Arngrim, is a Canadian child actor born on Christmas eve 1955. He is perhaps best known for his role as Barry Lockridge on the Irwin Allen television series Land of the Giants which aired from 1968 to 1970.

Stefan was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of acting parents Norma MacMillan and Thor Arngrim and was a very successful young TV actor after the family moved to Hollywood: Gunsmoke (1966), Combat (1966), The Virginian (1967), Dragnet (1968) and the TV movie Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969). He even played along side such movie greats as Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark & Sally Field in The Way West (1967), before landing his longest and most successful role as Barry in Land of the Giants (1968-1970).

Stefan helped his little sister Alison Arngrim get one of her first roles on Room 222 (1969), before her most well-known role as bratty Nellie Oleson on The Little House on the Prairie (1974-1982). During those Hollywood years Stefan became the babysitter for little Alison due to their parents busy theater schedule. Alison revealed in her biography "Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated" that she was molested by Stefan starting when she was just 6 years old and lasting for three years. Arngrim said that playing a brat on TV helped her cope with the pain of sexual abuse.

Stefan's acting talent carried him well into adulthood with TV roles on TJ Hooker (1983), The X-Files (1996), Battlestar Galactica (2007) and in movies: Strange Days (1995) & The A-Team (2010). Stefan won The Science Fiction Film & Fantasy Award "Best actor" for Fear No Evil in 1981, and more recently was Nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best supporting actor" for The Life in 2005.

Stefan is also a very accomplished musician. He had a group called "Stefan and the Wild Boys," and a rock band "The Knights of The Living Dead", in Los Angeles from 1986-1993. The band was offered several deals, and signed with Capitol Records. Unfortunately, the president of Capitol was fired the same week and the new president dropped all the new bands that were signed, but had not gone into the recording studio yet. The band did get money to make a demo with Dave Jerden (Jane's Addiction, The Rolling Stones, etc.) as producer. But, by the time everything was done, the band was slowly breaking up.

Stefan & his partner Roland Devoile continued to make music until the '94 Northridge earthquake, when his girlfriend, now wife, Dawn, decided it was time to leave Los Angeles. They moved to Vancouver, Canada in the fall of '94 where he now works in British Columbia doing TV, Film, Music, writing, and producing.