David Doremus

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David Doremus
Born	1957
Residence	Palmdale, California, USA
Occupation	Businessman; former actor
Spouse	Erin Colleen Doremus (born 1959)
Children	Four children

David Alan Doremus (born 1957)^[1] is a California businessman who as a child actor, primarily between 1970 and 1977, appeared as 12-year-old Hal Everett on ABC's Nanny and the Professor and as the teenager George "G.W." Haines for five years on CBS's The Waltons.

According to the story line, Doremus was the oldest of three children of widowed college professor Harold Everett (played by Richard Long), who hired the Englishwoman Phoebe Figalilly (Juliet Mills) as housekeeper and nanny. The character Hal was scientific-oriented and good at mechanical matters. Other costars were Trent Lehman (1961-1982) as younger brother Butch and Kim Richards as sister Prudence. ^[2]

The suicide of Doremus' co-star Trent Lehman, along with those of Rusty Hamer (1947-1990) of CBS's The Danny Thomas Show and Tim Hovey (1945-1989) of the film The Private War of Major Benson, inspired Paul Petersen, formerly of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, to found in 1991 the child-actor support group A Minor Consideration.^[3]

Nanny and the Professor aired from January 21, 1970, until December 27, 1971. It ran on Friday evenings sandwiched between two other popular programs, The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Doremus also provided the voice of Hal Everett on a brief cartoon version of Nanny and the Professor, which aired on ABC as the "Saturday Superstar Movie" in limited showings in 1972 and 1973.^[4]

In 1972, Doremus, at fifteen, was cast as a boyfriend of Mary Ellen Walton (Judy Norton). The Thursday evening series was created by author Earl Hamner, who also did the narration. It ran until 1981. Doremus appeared through November 10, 1977. In the episode "The First Casualty", his character died in a training accident in the early phase of World War II.^[5]

Doremus appeared on NBC's Bonanza in 1972. His last role was in 1981 as Chuck in the film Rivals on the USA network. This film was also known as The Stranger at Jefferson High.^[6]

David Doremus is the son of Robert Alan and Judy Doremus. Before his first television roles, Doremus had already begun acting in television commercials at the age of seven. He once indicated that he wanted to attend the University of Southern California and aspired to become a dentist.^[7]Since 1980, Doremus has been in the mobile electronics business. He is married to Erin Colleen Doremus (born 1959) and is the father of four children. A former resident of Glendale, Doremus lives with his family in Palmdale in Los Angeles County.^[8]

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