Brandon Call was one of the stars of the popular 1990s sitcom Step By Step, but what has he been up to since the show went off the air in 1998?

Summary

• Brandon Call was a child star in the 1990s sitcom Step By Step, but he left show business after the series ended.
• Call's character, J.T., was a major part of the show's storylines and dealt with challenges like dyslexia.
• Call had a successful acting career before Step By Step, including appearances in other TV shows and movies, but he hasn't worked in show business since the series ended.

Brandon Call was a noted child star in the 1990s sitcom Step By Step, but he abandoned show business after the series went off the air. Debuting in 1991, Step By Step follows the tumultuous Lambert and Foster family as they are thrown together by the sudden marriage of a single father of three named Frank (Patrick Duffy) and a single mother of three named Carol (Suzanne Somers). The series was a popular 1990s staple that checked all the classic sitcom boxes and was a quintessential part of ABC's TGIF lineup throughout the decade.

Co-starring as Frank's oldest son J.T., Brandon Call proved his star potential throughout all seven seasons of the show, and the character was the emotional force of many of the show's best storylines. Of all the classic sitcoms that aired on ABC's TGIF, Step By Step had longevity due in large part to the wealth of characters featured in the eight-person household. Call was particularly given a lot to work with, and viewers watched as J.T. blossomed into a young adult and learned to grapple with challenges like his dyslexia diagnosis. The show had a respectable run, but Brandon Call wouldn't continue his upward trajectory as a young star.

Brandon Call's Acting Career

Though Step By Step was the culmination of Brandon Call's relatively short career, he was already an accomplished actor by the time he landed the J.T. role. After a handful of small TV appearances in 1984, Call made his big screen debut when he provided the voice of Fairfolk in the underrated Disney animated film The Black Cauldron. He would spend the next few years making sporadic appearances in TV shows before landing a 70-episode run as Brandon Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

The young Brandon Call would return to cinemas in a handful of films in the late 1980s, including a small cameo role in the horror film Warlock, and as Billy in the memorable Rutger Hauer movie Blind Fury. Shortly before Step By Step, Call appeared in over 20 episodes of Baywatch was Hobie Buchanan, a part that saw his star rise even further. Even while starring in the show that would make him famous, Brandon Call also appeared as Zack in the short-lived Hulk Hogan series Thunder in Paradise. Step By Step ended in 1998, and that was the last time that Call ever worked in show business.

Brandon Is Now Married & Operates A Gas Station

Though Call himself has never explicitly stated why he stepped away from the limelight, his Step By Step co-star Christine Lakin told People that it might have had something to do with an off-screen incident that changed his life. In September 1996, Call was shot six times in a drive-by road rage incident which left the young star close to death. Thankfully, the actor survived, but Lakin speculated that his harrowing encounter might have soured his Hollywood experience. Nowadays, Brandon Call lives away from the spotlight and, according to Gazette Review, works at his family's gas station in San Diego, and is a happily married man.

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Dalton is a freelance writer, novelist, and filmmaker from Orlando Florida. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and pursues writing full-time. He is an avid reader, film buff, and amateur historian who also publishes novels on the side. Dalton graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Film and he often applies his industry-specific knowledge when writing about film and television. Along with his blog, Dalton's critical essays on film have been published in various places online. 

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