

Cameron and Noble also worked together on Kirk. In Kirk, Cameron played Kirk Hartman, a 24-year-old who has to raise his siblings. When Growing Pains ended in 1992, Cameron went on to star in The WB sitcom Kirk which premiered in 1995 and ended two years later.

His next theatrical film, 1989's Listen to Me, performed poorly at the box office. Tanner, the role played by Cameron's sister, Candace.Ĭameron went on to star in many films, including 1987's Like Father Like Son (a body-switch comedy with Dudley Moore), which was a box office success. Ĭameron also guest-starred in the 1988 Full House episode "Just One of the Guys", in which he played the cousin of D.J. He was also in a 60-second Pepsi commercial during Super Bowl XXIV. At the time, he was making $50,000 a week. Cameron subsequently became a teen heartthrob in the late 1980s, while appearing on the covers of several teen magazines, including Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, 16 and others. In the series, Mike would eventually have a girlfriend named Kate MacDonald, played by Chelsea Noble, Cameron's future wife. He became famous in 1985 after being cast as Mike Seaver in the ABC television sitcom Growing Pains. At this age, he appeared in several television shows and films. His first starring role was at age 13, in the television series Two Marriages.

Cameron began acting at age nine, and his first job was in an advertisement for a breakfast cereal.
