{"id":289790,"date":"2026-01-17T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289790\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:38:12","slug":"baby-faced-former-80s-child-star-who-pivoted-to-stranger-things-seen-in-extremely-rare-public-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289790\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby-faced former ’80s child star who pivoted to Stranger Things seen in extremely rare public outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former ’80s child star who appears in the final season of Stranger Things<\/a> was spotted out in Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This actor grew up in the spotlight, playing one of\u00a0Michael Keaton<\/a> and Toni Garr’s on-screen children in the 1983 comedy film Mr. Mom.<\/p>\n

The following year he starred in another beloved project, the 1984 sitcom Kate & Allie, a sitcom about two mothers who decide to raise their children under the same roof following their respective divorces.<\/p>\n

He eventually took a break from Hollywood to study drama at university before returning in front of the camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now 50, this star displayed his incredibly youthful looks while out in what was an extremely rare public sighting of him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can you guess who this star is?<\/p>\n

\"A <\/p>\n

A former ’80s child star who made a cameo in the final season of Stranger Things was spotted out in Los Angeles<\/p>\n

It’s Frederick Koehler!<\/p>\n

Koehler was spotted out and about in West Hollywood on Friday, seemingly running errands in the area.<\/p>\n

A shopping bag in hand and clad in a casual bundled-up look, Koehler was tuned into his earbuds as he made his way through the area on foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Koehler was just a child when he started off his acting career.<\/p>\n

He played Michael Keaton and\u00a0Teri Garr’s son in the 1983 comedy Mr. Mom followed by Jane Curtin’s son Chip Lowell in\u00a0Kate & Allie.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show starred Curtin and\u00a0Susan Saint James as two mothers who decide to raise their children under the same roof after their respective divorces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This role was his first big film project in Hollywood and although it was his biggest to date, it still led to a lengthy career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During his time on the show, Koehler played with Saint James’ children:\u00a0‘I remember being happy,’ he told People<\/a> in 2000.<\/p>\n

\"If <\/p>\n

If you guessed\u00a0Frederick Koehler, you were correct!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Frederick <\/p>\n

Frederick played the son of Michael Keaton’s character in Mr. Mom<\/p>\n

\"He <\/p>\n

He recently played a scientist on two episodes of Stranger Things 5<\/p>\n

\"Frederick, <\/p>\n

Frederick, pictured bottom R, also starred in the sitcom Kate & Allie<\/p>\n

\"Koehler <\/p>\n

Koehler is seen in New York back in September 1988<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The actor appeared to be doing some light shopping in the area<\/p>\n

Koehler then sought to perfect his craft at school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u00a0received a degree in drama at Carnegie Mellon in 1997, a route he took to expanding his acting breadth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I wanted to explore more what it was to be an actor,’ he told People in 1999, ‘and not rest on the things I’d already done.’<\/p>\n

His career then took him onto the stage, with Koehler also doing theater in Los Angeles and New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The actor was lightly bundled up in a grey beanie and burgundy sweater<\/p>\n

\"Koehler <\/p>\n

Koehler is seen in 1984<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The actor is seen in 2017 horror flick The Evil Within<\/p>\n

Once he graduated, he continued to book roles in Pearl Harbor, Oz, and Birdseye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also made cameos in Ally McBeal, Charmed and the CSI franchise.<\/p>\n

The actor landed his next film role in the 2005 film Domino. A year later, he had a recurring role in the TV series Pepper Dennis (2006), which only lasted one season.<\/p>\n

The former child star then booked a role in Death Race (2008), which eventually turned into a four-part franchise.<\/p>\n

He filmed Death Race 2 in (2010) followed by Death Race 3: Inferno (2013) and Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy (2018).<\/p>\n

Koehler continues to book work to this day. He recently starred in The Little Things (2021),\u00a0he filmed for the first season of a TV series titled Kombucha Care (2023), and more recently portrayed a scientist in two episodes of the final season of Stranger Things.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former ’80s child star who appears in the final season of Stranger Things was spotted out in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,118,18,117,19,17,1370,27613,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-289790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-stranger-things","16":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115912370348440210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}