It was kind of like a ventriloquist, only he wasn’t a ventriloquist, and it was very funny,” she said.
Jones, and they would tell jokes to each other. “He had a dummy that would sit in his lap – that was Mr. One of her favorite memories was of a skit called “Mr. He was also a really good team player.”Īlthough the show sought children with a “kid next door” demeanor, it quickly became clear that Nathan was also very talented as an actor, Taylor said. “Jared was just a wonderful, wonderful kid,” Taylor said Friday. He was on the show for one season and would have been invited back had he not reached adolescence, said executive producer Kate Taylor. Nathan was 13 years old when he was selected for the 1999 revival of “Zoom,” a public television show made by WGBH-TV in Boston that debuted in the 1970s. Friends said King had been Nathan’s roommate at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass. He was released on $500 cash and $1,500 personal recognizance bail. Police have arrested the driver, Gabriel King, 19, of Hudson, Mass., on a charge of aggravated drunken driving. Nathan was a passenger in a Toyota Camry that crashed into a tree and overturned early Thursday morning in Hollis, authorities said. “He brought out the best in a lot of people and could make everyone smile.” He was the one everyone said would make it,” said friend Andrea Underhill.
Nathan, who lived in Nashua, N.H., was a third-year acting student at the Juilliard School in New York, friends said Thursday. (AP) – Jared Nathan, a former actor on the children’s television show “Zoom,” has died after a car crash.