David Knell

Actor Sep 8 (age 64) New York City, New York, USA 1971–2025 (54 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Biography

Best known for his roles as a goofy, callow youth in films like Spring Break, Splash, Total Recall, and Turner and Hooch, David is a veteran in the industry with a career that spans over four decades.

Known For

Film

Total Recall

Ernie

Film

Pig

Finway

Film

Splash

Claude

Film

Turner & Hooch

Ernie

Film

My Blue Heaven

Checker

Film

Making Love

Michael

Film

The Devil and Max Devlin

Nerve Nordlinger

Film

Spring Break

Nelson

Filmography

Acting (32)

Movies (20)

Sitra Achra

2025

as Freddy Nord

To Kill a Wolf

as The Rancher

Pig

as Finway

Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol

as (voice)

Jailbirds

as Baxter

Total Recall

as Ernie

My Blue Heaven

as Checker

Turner & Hooch

as Ernie

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

1989

as Booge

4.4

Gidget's Summer Reunion

as Albert Winslow

Splash

as Claude

High School U.S.A.

Spring Break

as Nelson

September Gun

as Jason, Ben's Nephew

5.3

Making Love

1982

as Michael

6.8

The Devil and Max Devlin

as Nerve Nordlinger

Bitter Harvest

as Brandon

Belle Starr

as Ed Reed

A Christmas Without Snow

1980

as Terry

5.6

Life on the Mississippi

1980

9.0

Television (12)

Grimm

as Stan's Father

Diagnosis: Murder

as Clerk

Murphy Brown

as Pizza Kid

ALF

as Dudley

The New Gidget

as Albert Winslow

Mr. Sunshine

as Warren Leftwich

Shadow Chasers

Murder, She Wrote

as Acting Police Chief Wylie Ledbetter

Charles in Charge

as Duane

St. Elsewhere

as Matthew Brody

Bret Maverick

as Rodney Catlow

Great Performances

as Sam Clemens