Joshua David Saviano (born March 31, 1976) is an American actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the situation comedy The Wonder Years.
His role in The Wonder Years was one of his few television or movie roles. His first television appearance was a one-liner role in a commercial for Aim toothpaste. Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie The Wrong Guys in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga in 1990. The latter was his last film or television role other than his role in The Wonder Years, which he played until the show's end in 1993. He also guest starred on the show The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989 as Willie and on Reading Rainbow and Fun House as himself.
Similarities between Saviano's character Paul Pfeiffer and The Simpsons character Milhouse Van Houten can be made, both in terms of their appearance and their roles as the geeky side-kick friend to the protagonist.
For some time, an urban myth circulated that Saviano grew up to be singer Marilyn Manson, but there is no truth in this.blank">http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marilyn.asp Saviano himself has addressed the urban legend, stating that in college he received as many as twenty emails a day asking about the subject, and that he considered himself honored that people associated him with a rock star rather than a geek. In fact, Saviano majored in _Political Science at Yale University where he became president of Sigma Nu Fraternity. Upon graduation in 1998 he worked for a while as a paralegal for a New York City law firm. In 2000 he worked for an Internet firm before entering Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in August of the same year. He is admitted to the bar in New York.
Saviano is currently an associate with Morrison Cohen LLP.
Majored in Political Science at Yale.
Internet rumors consistently assert that he grew up to be shock-rocker Marilyn Manson. (Untrue)
Graduated from Yeshiva's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (12th St. and Fifth Ave in Manhattan) in 2003.
Is an avid fantasy sports player.
Bart Simpson's best friend Milhouse Van Houten is based on his character from "The Wonder Years", Paul Pfeiffer.
He is presently an attorney in New York.
