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Joseph Ashton Valencia is a Actor American born on 18 november 1986 at Cherokee (USA)
Joseph Ashton Valencia (born November 18, 1986) is an American film and voice actor.
Ashton was born in California; both of his parents have Cherokee ancestors.
He is a graduate of the University of La Verne, where he majored in TV and radio broadcasting. He starred in The Little Rascals and a remake of Where the Red Fern Grows.
Career
Joseph Ashton is an award winning actor in television and films. Joseph's voice is immediately recognized as the lead character 'Oswald "Otto" Rocket' on Nickelodeon's popular animated series Rocket Power. Joseph was on the series for 4 seasons and has been nominated twice for a Young Artist Award for his voice-over work. Joseph has lent his voice to other animated projects including Hey Arnold, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones and the animated films Babes in Toyland and Tarzan. Other voice work includes recording an audio book for Christian Day Parenting.
Joseph first appeared before the camera as an infant in a national McDonalds commercial and has worked steadily ever since. He had a regular role on the Award winning CBS drama LA Doctors and was nominated for a Young Artist Award. His guest-starring roles on television series include ER, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Walker, Texas Ranger, Martial Law, Cracker and Smart Guy. He reprised his role as the voice of ‘Otto Rocket' in the television movie Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand for Nickelodeon. He appeared in Asylum as Young Tordone on HBO and the NBC mini series Blind Faith based on the #1 national bestseller authored by Joe McGinniss.
On the big screen, Joseph had the starring role of 'Sonny', in Slappy and the Stinkers and won a Young Artist Award for best performance in a feature film. Joseph's compelling performance of the title character, Little Tree in the critically acclaimed The Education of Little Tree earned him another Young Artist Award. Roger Ebert gave Joseph a hearty two thumbs up for playing the half-Cherokee orphan calling him "fresh and natural." The Boston Phoenix lauded him as "adorable and energetic."
Other film credits include The Little Rascals and Where The Red Fern Grows which recently premiered to rave reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival. Joseph Ashton has won a Crystal Heart Award, multiple Young Artist Awards, and numerous Native American in Film Awards, including the ICE Horizon Award, during his career.
Ashton's film debut was in the 1994 remake of The Little Rascals. He appeared in many television productions throughout the 1990s, and notably starred in the title role of the 1997 film, The Education of Little Tree, a well-reviewed low-budget film about a 1930s-era boy discovering his Native American heritage. Ashton has twice won the Young Artist Award.
Ashton is the English language voice of Oswald "Otto" Rocket on Nickelodeon's Rocket Power cartoon series, and also appeared in Walt Disney Productions' direct-to-video 2003 remake of Where the Red Fern Grows, playing the main character, "Billy Coleman".
Ashton has teamed up with EndlessEntertainment Co., and produces his own films.
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Personal lifeAshton was born in California; both of his parents have Cherokee ancestors.
He is a graduate of the University of La Verne, where he majored in TV and radio broadcasting. He starred in The Little Rascals and a remake of Where the Red Fern Grows.
Career
Joseph Ashton is an award winning actor in television and films. Joseph's voice is immediately recognized as the lead character 'Oswald "Otto" Rocket' on Nickelodeon's popular animated series Rocket Power. Joseph was on the series for 4 seasons and has been nominated twice for a Young Artist Award for his voice-over work. Joseph has lent his voice to other animated projects including Hey Arnold, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones and the animated films Babes in Toyland and Tarzan. Other voice work includes recording an audio book for Christian Day Parenting.
Joseph first appeared before the camera as an infant in a national McDonalds commercial and has worked steadily ever since. He had a regular role on the Award winning CBS drama LA Doctors and was nominated for a Young Artist Award. His guest-starring roles on television series include ER, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Walker, Texas Ranger, Martial Law, Cracker and Smart Guy. He reprised his role as the voice of ‘Otto Rocket' in the television movie Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand for Nickelodeon. He appeared in Asylum as Young Tordone on HBO and the NBC mini series Blind Faith based on the #1 national bestseller authored by Joe McGinniss.
On the big screen, Joseph had the starring role of 'Sonny', in Slappy and the Stinkers and won a Young Artist Award for best performance in a feature film. Joseph's compelling performance of the title character, Little Tree in the critically acclaimed The Education of Little Tree earned him another Young Artist Award. Roger Ebert gave Joseph a hearty two thumbs up for playing the half-Cherokee orphan calling him "fresh and natural." The Boston Phoenix lauded him as "adorable and energetic."
Other film credits include The Little Rascals and Where The Red Fern Grows which recently premiered to rave reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival. Joseph Ashton has won a Crystal Heart Award, multiple Young Artist Awards, and numerous Native American in Film Awards, including the ICE Horizon Award, during his career.
Ashton's film debut was in the 1994 remake of The Little Rascals. He appeared in many television productions throughout the 1990s, and notably starred in the title role of the 1997 film, The Education of Little Tree, a well-reviewed low-budget film about a 1930s-era boy discovering his Native American heritage. Ashton has twice won the Young Artist Award.
Ashton is the English language voice of Oswald "Otto" Rocket on Nickelodeon's Rocket Power cartoon series, and also appeared in Walt Disney Productions' direct-to-video 2003 remake of Where the Red Fern Grows, playing the main character, "Billy Coleman".
Ashton has teamed up with EndlessEntertainment Co., and produces his own films.
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Tarzan (1999)
, 1h28Directed by Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Tarzan films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Rosie O'Donnell, Glenn Close, Brian Blessed, Lance Henriksen
Roles Additional Voices (voice)
Rating73%
In the 1880s, an English couple and their infant son escape a burning ship, ending up on land near uncharted rainforests off the coast of Africa. The couple craft themselves a treehouse from their ship's wreckage, but are subsequently killed by Sabor, a rogue leopardess. Kala, a female gorilla who recently lost her own child to Sabor, hears the cries of the orphaned human infant and finds him in the ruined treehouse. Though she is attacked by Sabor, Kala and the baby manage to escape. Kala takes the baby back to the gorilla troop to raise as her own, an act of which her mate, Kerchak, disapproves. Kala raises the human child, naming him Tarzan. Though he befriends other gorillas in the troop and other animals, including the young female gorilla Terk and the paranoid male elephant Tantor, Tarzan finds himself unable to keep up with them, so he takes great efforts to improve himself. As a young man, Tarzan is able to kill Sabor with his crude spear and protect the troop, gaining Kerchak's reluctant respect.
Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
, 1h18Directed by Barnet Kellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals
Actors B.D. Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton Valencia, Gary LeRoi Gray, Scarlett Pomers
Roles Sonny
Rating50%
The film takes place at prestigious private school, Dartmoor Academy, where the uptight principal, Morgan Brinway (B. D. Wong) is forcing the second-graders to study opera appreciation. Five feisty kids (leader Sonny, contraption making Loaf, movie loving Domino, sympathetic albeit tough Lucy, and the reluctant participating Witz), nicknamed the "Stinkers" by Mr. Brinway, are secretly skipping class to create chaos on the school grounds. Witz becomes the test pilot for a flying chair, one of Sonny's newest ideas. The Stinkers go to Groundskeeper Roy's (Bronson Pinchot) shed and they steal his leaf blower. Before that, they stole Mr. Brinway's desk chair for the experiment to work. While they are getting ready to test the flying ride, the Stinkers fail to notice that the leaf blower was not entirely duct taped onto the desk chair. When turned it on, the leaf blower flew off the contraption but left Witz sitting in the chair. The leaf blower was heading straight for Mr. Brinway's new convertible, but luckily the leaf blower ran out of gas before it destroyed the car (during the chaos, Mr. Brinway learned of the Stinker's plan and tried to intervene). However, Roy accidentally obliterates the car's side door with his lawn mower blade, causing several thousand dollars of automobile body damage. The Stinkers are then taken to Mr. Brinway's office for punishment. Although he warns them that they would be expelled if they mess up one more time, they soon rebel while trying to keep a low profile and are involved in even more zany misadventures.
Babes in Toyland (1997)
, 1h11Directed by Toby Bluth
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Joseph Ashton Valencia, Lacey Chabert, Raphael Sbarge, Cathy Cavadini, Christopher Plummer, Charles Nelson Reilly
Roles Jack (voice)
Rating47%
It's three days before Christmas, as the conductor aboard the Toyland Express, Humpty Dumpty (Charles Nelson Reilly), meets two children, Jack and Jill (Joseph Ashton and Lacey Chabert), who are on their way to Toyland. After meeting Tom Piper (Raphael Sbarge) and Mary Lamb (Cathy Cavadini), who runs her late father's toy factory, they go to live with their uncle, the evil Barnaby Crookedman (Christopher Plummer), who despises toys and keeps Jack and Jill in the attic. He has plans to shut down the toy factory, and earlier shot down Tom's hot air balloon as he was flying over the Goblin Forest in an attempt to get him eaten by goblins (and is quite shocked to see him alive).
Asylum (1997)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Robert Patrick, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Douglas, Debra Wilson, Henry Gibson, Joseph Ashton Valencia
Roles Young Tordone
Rating49%
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joseph Ashton Valencia, James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Graham Greene, Christopher Heyerdahl
Roles Little Tree
Rating70%
In the 1930s, an eight-year-old boy who is later given the Native American name "Little Tree" (Joseph Ashton) was being raised alone by his widowed mother and is left an orphan when she dies of illness. His white mother's sister comes to take him but his paternal grandfather (James Cromwell) and grandmother (Tantoo Cardinal), whose ancestors had escaped from the Trail of Tears and hid in the Great Smoky Mountains, arrive and take the boy to live with them. In his grandparents' care, the boy, learns about his heritage as a descendant of Native Americans in the United States through them and their Cherokee friend Willow John (Graham Greene).
The Little Rascals (1994)
, 1h22Directed by Penelope Spheeris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Bug Hall, Travis Tedford, Brittany Ashton Holmes, Jordan Warkol, Kevin Jamal Woods, Ross Bagley
Roles Rascal
Rating63%
Spanky is the president of the "He-Man Woman ('woman' is misspelled as 'womun') Haters Club" with many school-aged boys from around the neighborhood as members. Alfalfa, Spanky's best friend, has been chosen as the driver for the club's prize-winning undefeated go-kart, "The Blur", in the annual Soap Box Derby style race. Unfortunately, when the announcement is made, Alfalfa is nowhere to be found.