Max Burkholder

Max Burkholder
Max Burkholder
	Burkholder at the March 2013 Paleyfest
Born	Maxwell Henry Wolf Burkholder; November 1, 1997 (age 26); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present

Maxwell Henry Wolf Burkholder (born November 1, 1997) is an American actor. He is most notable for his role as Max Braverman in the comedic television drama on NBC, Parenthood. Prior to that, he became known as a voice actor for his roles as Chomper in The Land Before Time, Roo on My Friends Tigger & Pooh and World in the television film Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Destination: Imagination. In 2013, Burkholder appeared in the film The Purge. He is currently a member of the comedy account on Instagram, Max 'n' the Jakey Boys.^[1]

Life and career

Burkholder's parents are former actors.^[2] Burkholder has a brother named James.^[3] He attended Campbell Hall School.^[4] Burkholder was accepted into Harvard University as a member of the Class of 2021.^[5] There he began his theatrical career appearing in a production of columbinus at Harvard portraying Dylan Klebold/Loner.^[6] Burkholder is Jewish.^[7]^[8]

Television

Burkholder has appeared on Parenthood as Max Braverman and as young Mitch on Crumbs. He guest starred on an episode of CSI: Miami, "Death Pool 100" and in an episode of CSI: NY. In addition, he played Billy in one episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody on Disney Channel and was the voice of Samsquatch in Random! Cartoons. He also appeared in the television series In Treatment and Love for Rent and played the role of Duncan in the episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Brave New World". He also played a child at an airport in an episode of The O.C..^[9]

Burkholder has lent his voice for several shows. He voiced Chomper in the television series The Land Before Time, based on film series of the same name. He also provided the voice of Roo on My Friends Tigger & Pooh (taking over the role from Jimmy Bennett) and played "World" the imaginary friend inside a toybox in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Destination: Imagination (2008).^[10]

For Burkholder's role as Max Braverman on Parenthood, executive producer Jason Katims said consultant Wayne Tashjian, a behavioral psychologist, looked at the script and met with Burkholder and his mother about those scenes involving the character of Max. Burkholder and his mother then practiced the scenes by themselves. For special scenes, the show employed a second consultant to ensure accuracy.^[11]

Film

Burkholder played Max in Daddy Day Care (2003) and also appeared in Friends with Money (2006).^[12] He played the son of James Sandin in the horror film The Purge in the summer of 2013.^[13]^[14]

Filmography

List of Film Roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Daddy Day Care	Max Ryerson	Film debut
2005	Love for Rent	Max
2006	Friends with Money	Max
	The Ant Bully	Blue Teammate #6 (voice)	^[15]
	Arthur's Missing Pal	Timmy Tibble (voice)	^[15]
2007	My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie	Roo (voice)	Direct to video^[15]
2008	The Journal	10 Year Old Alex	Short film
2008	Fly Me to the Moon	Mother's Maggot (voice)	^[15]
2009	My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too	Roo (voice)	Direct to video
2009	Astro Boy	Billy (voice)	^[15]
2010	The Rainbow Tribe	Boo
2013	The Purge	Charlie Sandin
2018	The First Purge	Charlie Sandin (flashbacks)
2019	Benjamin	Benjamin
2019	Imaginary Order	Xander

List of Television Roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Commando Nanny	Seth Winter	Unaired Television program
2005	The O.C.	Kid in Airport	Episode: "The Rainy Day Women"
2005	Fathers and Sons	Nick at 5	Television film
2005–2017	Family Guy	Kid, Young Patrick Pewterschmidt, Calvin, Will Robinson, Scotty, various characters (voices)	21 episodes
2006	Crumbs	Young Mitch Crumb	2 episodes
	CSI: NY	Sam	Episode: "Necrophilia Americana"
	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	Billy	Episode: "Books and Birdhouses"
	CSI: Miami	Tyler Lamar	Episode: "Death Pool 100"
2007	Random! Cartoons	Samsquatch (voice)	Episode: "Samsquatch"
	Lipshitz Saves the World	Young Adam Lipshitz
	Panic Button	Sam Alden	Television film originally released as Point of Entry
2007–2008	The Land Before Time	Chomper (voice)	26 episodes^[15]
2007–2009	My Friends Tigger & Pooh	Roo (voice)	25 episodes
2007–2009	Brothers & Sisters	Jack McCallister	4 episodes
2007–2016	American Dad!	Kid Doctor, Little Boy, Justin Bieber (voices)	3 episodes
2008	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Billy Connors (voice)	Episode: "Natural Selection"^[15]
	Grey's Anatomy	Duncan Pailey	Episode: "Brave New World"
	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination	World (voice)	Television film^[15]
2008–2009	In Treatment	Max Weston	2 episodes
2009	Private Practice	Ben King	2 episodes
	The Cleveland Show	Kid (voice)	Episode: "The One About Friends"
	Children of the Corn	Additional voices	Television film
2010–2015	Parenthood	Max Braverman	Main cast, 84 episodes
2017	The Orville	Tomilin	Episode: "If the Stars Should Appear"
2021–present	Invincible	Matt (voice)	2 episodes^[15]
2024–present	Ted	John Bennett	Main cast, 7 episodes^[16]

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Result	Work
Young Artist Award	2012	Best Performance in a Television Series – Supporting Young Actor	Nominated	Parenthood
Young Artist Award	2014	Best Performance in a Television Series – Supporting Young Actor	Won	Parenthood