From episode 94 (Courtesy RTL2).

• Jack Arnold was born on Nov 6, 1928 (see episode 77) as the son of Albert Arnold (David Huddleston) 35,59,69,81.
• Dan Lauria directed the episode "Night out" (#40).

Birthday: April 12, 1947 in Brooklyn / New York 

• raised in a blue-collar suburban town in Long Island / New York, Lindenhurst where his parents still live
• in school and college captain of football teams in high school and college, also active in wrestling and baseball
• graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with double BA in American History and Philosophy
• then served in Marine Corps from 1970 until 1973, stationed in the Pacific and briefly in Vietnam
• in 1973 returned to US 
• then graduated from University of Connecticut with MFA in playwriting
• started his stage career in Washington DC, then in New York
• in 1991 married to Eileen Cregg, a former radio station employee, after having been attached to Joanna Kerns 
• lives currently in Los Angeles and runs a theatre company there (1998)

• Inbetween theatre jobs, Dan Lauria worked as a football and wrestling coach and as a substitute teacher in Lindenhurst. He clinched "The Wonder Years" part after learning that Neal Marlens went to a rival high school nearby, probably to Huntington High School, in the town where Neal Marlens lived.
• Dan was once attached to Joanna Kerns (of TV's "Growing Pains"). Since then, he acted in several TV movies together with her.
• In the early 90s, Dan Lauria produced Chazz Palminteri's play "A Bronx Tale" in New York. The play was a great success and propelled Chazz's movie career when Robert DeNiro took notice of the play and chose "A Bronx Tale" to be his movie directorial debut. In fact, Dan is thanked in the end credits of the movie. It looks like Chazz and Dan are still in touch, with Dan executive-producing "Faithful", Chazz's second movie screenplay.
• In several Wonder Years episodes "Jack Arnold" wears a navy blue sweatshirt with "SOUTHERN"  written on it.  This was Dan Lauria's, from his college, the Southern Connecticut State University (from Pete Somma).
• In 1996 he was executive producer of the movie Faithful and has written the script for Dog Watch.
• Dan Lauria and Fred Savage were touring in a summer stock play this year called Wendell & Ben.  I will be seeing it at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut in July 1998.
• There is a new movie in the making, High Times Potluck. The website includes several photos of Dan.
• There us a Dan Laura Picture Website.
• His agent's address: 601 North Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004.  The following address was valid March 1998:

         Dan Lauria 
         c/o Coronet Theatre 
         366 N LaCienega Blvd 
         Los Angeles, CA  90048