Whatever Happened To Data From The Goonies?

Following his one-two punch of box-office breaking success with not only "The Goonies" but "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" the year before, Ke Huy Quan, who played Data, went on to make sporadic appearances in both film and television. After saving the Goondocks, Quan appeared in the 1986 television sitcom "Together We Stand," starring alongside Elliot Gould and "E.T.'s" Dee Wallace, as their adopted son Sam. The show ran for 13 episodes before CBS canceled it. Years later in 1990, he was in time for the school bell ringing for "Head of the Class," appearing in 27 episodes as Jasper Kwong, before that show eventually came to a close as well in 1991.

From there, it was only following a bit part on Brendan Fraser's career-making "Encino Man" that Quan returned to Hollywood before a lengthy hiatus. His career sent him on a trajectory behind the camera instead of in front, working as a stunt co-ordinator on Jet Li's reality-hopping action movie "The One," as well as one of the pioneering comic book movie blockbusters, "X-Men" back when no one really knew much about that Hugh Jackman fella. It feels almost fated then that Quan's career has had a recent jolt in a project that combined elements from both those films, in a movie that is earning critical acclaim from every dimension it ends up in.