P. J. Ochlan

P. J. Ochlan is an American actor and voice actor best known for his roles as Damon Wells in the feature film Little Man Tate and Lester Shane in the television show Police Academy: The Series. He has narrated hundreds of audiobooks and has won the Audie Award and several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Ochlan appeared on Broadway in Abe Lincoln in Illinois and in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Love's Labour's Lost for Joseph Papp. Life and career Actor P.J. Ochlan was born and raised on Long Island in New York. His professional acting career began in 1986 with television commercials and voiceovers. He soon landed a recurring role in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, and the lead role in the ABC pilot Wayside School directed by Thomas Schlamme. Other television roles which followed include Let's Get Mom for FOX directed by Garry Marshall and starring Carol Kane, the acclaimed ABC Afterschool Special Seasonal Differences with Uta Hagen, the ABC pilot The Flockens, and The Baby-Sitters Club (TV series) and Brotherly Love for HBO. Additional recurring roles include The Carsey-Werner Company primetime series Grand and the soap Another World, both for NBC. He later appeared in Space: Above and Beyond, and the pilots Hitched and Beyond, all for FOX. Ochlan has guest-starred in episodes of The Practice, The District (opposite Craig T. Nelson), See Dad Run (opposite Scott Baio), Castle, and The Crazy Ones (opposite Robin Williams). Ochlan's first feature film was Little Vegas with Catherine O'Hara and Jerry Stiller. In 1991 he appeared in the widely acclaimed role of Damon Wells, "The Mathemagician," in Jodie Foster's directorial debut Little Man Tate. In 2000 he appeared in Cyberon, a direct-to-video spin-off from Doctor Who. Ochlan's other films have included Dead Man on Campus (with Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Quigley (film) (with Gary Busey), Wilde Salome (opposite Al Pacino), and Jersey Boys (directed by Clint Eastwood).