Born in 1982, Toran Caudell followed in his father
Lane Caudell's footsteps with the gay subtext
Max is Missing (1995). On vacation in Peru, Max (Toran) encounters a dying man, who gives him an ancient Incan mask. It doesn't have magic powers, but does send him on a wild flight through the wilderness, chased by the bad guys, accompanied by the Quechua boy Juanito (Victor Rojas).
Nick of time rescues and physical buddy-bonding moments ensue.
Toran's shoulder-length blond hair and feminine pretty-boy features got him cast as a as shy, sensitive, gay-vague boy in
Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997): he finds a magic ring that transports him to King Arthur's Camelot (where he fails to get a girlfriend).
Between 1997 and 2001, he had a recurring role on
Seventh Heaven, the preachy, heterosexist "family" drama about a minister with a large brood of hetero-horny kids. Goth kid Rod (Toran) enters the series by dating daughter Lucy, naturally, but he ends up running away from home and butting heads with his mother's psychotic boyfriend.
Otherwise Toran did mostly voice work on Nickelodeon cartoons:
Recess, Hey Arnold, Rocket Power.
Today he is a song writer and music producer. He composed music for
The Osbournes and
My Super Sweet Sixteen. Still androgynous though no longer blond, he has made no public statements about his sexual identity.
I always thought he was gay when I saw him on Seventh Heaven
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