Raised in California

Feature debut in the Richard Donner-directed movie "Goonies," penned by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg

TV acting debut in the movie "Prison for Children" (CBS)

Debut as series regular on the short-lived "Private Eye" (NBC)

Played opposite his father James Brolin (as father and son) in TNT movie "Finish Line"

Played a young Wild Bill Hickock in "The Young Riders" (ABC); father directed him in one episode

Co-founded the Reflections Festival at the GeVa Theatre in Rochester, New York and worked there five years as an artistic director, acting in and directing productions

Cast as cop romancing two women in the short-lived NBC primetime soap opera "Winnetka Road"

Co-starred "Flirting With Disaster" as a bisexual cop who, in a memorable sex scene, licks Patricia Arquette's armpit

Turned up as a wise-acre lab rat in "Mimic"

Cast in the thriller "Nightwatch," a remake of the 1995 Danish film "Nattevagten" (1994); film reteamed him with Arquette

Cast in his father's directorial debut, "My Brother's War" a political thriller set in Northen Ireland; father also acted in film

Played the former druggie boyfriend of Claire Danes' Julie in the film adaptation of the classic TV series "The Mod Squad"

Had featured role as a shallow, self-centered academic caught accused of assaulting a young woman in "Best Laid Plans"

Starred opposite Gretchen Mol in the CBS remake of "Picnic"

Made Broadway debut in revival of Sam Shepard's "True West"; alternated leading role of brothers with co-star Elias Koteas

Portrayed Kevin Bacon's scientist rival in Paul Verhoeven's "The Hollow Man"

Cast as the title character in the short lived series "Mister Sterling"

Cast in the Woody Allen comedy "Melinda and Melinda"

Appeared in the Steven Spielberg-produced TNT miniseries "Into the West"

Cast opposite Timothy Olyphant in Victor Nunez' "Coastlines" (filmed in 2001)

Starred in "Planet Terror," Robert Rodriguez's half of the goretastic double feature "Grind House" a collaboration with Quentin Tarantino

Played a crooked narcotics agent in Ridley Scott's drug dealer epic "American Gangster"

Co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem in the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men"

Cast as George W. Bush, in Oliver Stone's controversial film about the 43rd President of the United States (lensed 2008)