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Christopher Jon Castile (born June 15, 1980) is an American actor from Orange County, California. He is best known for his roles as Ted Newton in the movies Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd, playing the voice of Zachary Sellers and Nick Mulligan in Focus on the Family's Adventures in Odyssey, as well as playing Mark Foster on the sitcom Step by Step. He also voiced Eugene Horowitz in Hey Arnold!.

One of Castile's earliest television appearances was in a long-circulated segment of Totally For Kids, kid safety interstitials that aired on the Fox network's Saturday morning lineup in the early 1990s. The segment had him playing a young boy who was being followed by a group of kids (the main characters of the "safety patrol") because he had his named printed on his shirt, as a way to address the dangers of name display for strangers (or possible abductors) to see. The Totally For Kids segments also featured John Walsh.

Shortly after, Castile auditioned and became a part of the revamped cast of the Miller-Boyett sitcom Going Places in January 1991. The show never improved in the ratings with the new cast members, in a show that was already starring such talents as Alan Ruck and Heather Locklear, and was cancelled by ABC at the end of its first season. However, Castile and his fellow Going Places cast member Staci Keanan were approached by Miller-Boyett about a new family sitcom that was in development for the fall; both were promptly hired to play biological brother and sister on Step By Step, which they would for the next seven years.

Personal life

Castile married his long-time girlfriend in 2003.

It is rumored that he is now a Political Science/History teacher at Biola University in La Mirada, CA, but no profile on the university's website could be found (biola.edu/faculty/profiles). However, he is listed on ratemyprofessors.com as a Biola instructor.

External links

• Christopher Castile at the Internet Movie Database