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Name: Noah Hathaway
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Date of Birth:
November 13, 1971
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Place of Birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Mini-bio:
Noah L. Hathaway is an American film actor, whose roles included "Boxey" in the original "Battlestar Galactica" film and TV Series, and "Atreyu" in The Neverending Story. The Neverending Story made Ha...( read more)thaway popular with younger viewers. He went on to star in Troll (1986) and a mystery film Casebusters (1986). His final major film project was To Die, to Sleep (also titled Mortal Danger) (1994). Noah Hathaway has been active in sports all his life. An excellent swimmer, he was a Junior Lifeguard. He also played basketball, lifted weights, and raced motorcycles.
Hathaway retired from acting in the mid-1980s and moved into dance instruction, teaching advanced jazz and street dance until an injury forced him to quit in 1989 at eighteen. Noah returned briefly to the limelight in 1994 for Mortal Danger, which was his last acting role. He moved to New York for a few years and didn't return to the West Coast until 1998.
He spent some of his time there at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California, competing in supersport motorcycle racing; he also tended bar at several Los Angeles clubs. He trained in martial arts for several years, and had already earned his brown belt by the time of The Neverending Story. Hathaway would later earn black belts in Tang Soo Do and Shotokan, and compete as a Muay Thai boxer. He learned American Kenpo from Dr. Jerry Erickson, and worked as an assistant instructor with Erickson on a close-quarter combat training course for flight attendants and airline pilots.
As of September 2003, he and his wife were getting ready to open their own motorcycle shop, 5150 Choppers, in Miami, Florida.