Paris Themmen is an actor best known for his role as Mike Teevee in 1971's family classic film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (based on the Roald Dahl novel). Themmen was born in Boston in 1959. Themmen appeared in radio and TV commercials, voice-overs and theatre performing on Broadway in Male with Ann Miller in 1967 and in Rothschilds in 1970. In 1971, aged 11, he got his breakthrough role in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as Mike Teevee. Declaring a hiatus from acting at age 14 to "just be a kid," Themmen went on to receive a B.F.A. in theatre from New York University. Smitten with the urge to travel, he founded Access International, a travel service that arraigned Europe-bound charter flights for backpackers. Themmen's passion for travel has taken him to 62 countries.
Following brief stints in real estate, film production, commercial casting, business representation at Walt Disney Imagineering and a few other ventures, he now signs autographs at movie conventions, runs a photography business, and makes sporadic appearances in commercials, plays and TV shows.
Themmen sat down for an interview to discuss the 50th anniversary of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, which will be released on 4K through Warner Bros.
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→ "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Interview Footage Courtesy of Warner Bros.
→ "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971) Still Images:
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