Todd Baron (actor)

Todd Baron was a child actor from the late 1950's to the early 70's. He appeared on live television, did voice overs, filmwork, and was a consistent presence on TV. He was a guest star on such shows as Bewitched, Nanny and the Professor, My Favorite Martian, Arrest and Trial, The Danny Kaye Show, and others. He appeared in movies such as The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis) (the director's cut), I Love My Wife, and The Greatest Story Ever Told and over 100 TV and radio commercials.

He left show business as a teenager and attended the L.A. based experimental school Summerhill Day School. He then pursued a Master's Degree in Poetics which he currently holds.His work has been categorized as "analytic lyric", a form of poetics that is deeply involved in the lyric tradition while being engaged with a modernistic compositional technique. He has authored 9 books of poetry. "TV Eye" (Chax Books, 2005) and "Return of the World" (O Books, 1999) among others. He is widely anthologized and was a recipeint of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative poetry in 2002. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines for the last 20 years. He has been a college professor and secondary school teacher at Crossroads Middle School since 1993.