by Gerri Miller for JewishJournal
He looks almost as boyish as when he played Kevin Arnold on “The Wonder Years,” but Fred Savage is now 39, a married father of three, and three decades into a TV and movie career that has kept him steadily employed as an actor and director. Working mostly behind the scenes in the last 10 years, directing series such as “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Modern Family” and “2 Broke Girls” while doing animation voiceovers, Savage unexpectedly finds himself back in front of the camera this season in Fox’s comedy “The Grinder.”
Sent the script by executive producer and friend Nick Stoller, Savage was surprised to learn he wasn’t wanted as a director. The job: playing attorney Stewart Sanderson, whose older brother, Dean (Rob Lowe), returns home to Idaho and thinks he can join the family law firm without passing the bar just because he’s played a legal eagle on TV. Dean’s faux expertise proves to be invaluable, much to Stewart’s bewildered exasperation.
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