Michael Anthony Vitar (born December 21, 1978) is an American firefighter and former actor who appeared as Benjamin Franklin "Benny the Jet" Rodriguez in The Sandlot and Luis Mendoza in the final two Mighty Ducks films. He started acting as a teenager when a casting manager spotted him in line for a ride at a school carnival. Vitar retired from acting after 1997.
Vitar has two older siblings. His older brother, Pablo, played the older version of his character, Benny, in The Sandlot, after which he joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1996. Pablo died of colon cancer on January 29, 2008. Vitar also has an older sister, Elizabeth.
Vitar attended St. Francis High School in La Cañada, California, from which he graduated in 1997. Starting in 1996, Vitar worked for Gerber Ambulance in Torrance as an EMT, from which he moved into his career as a firefighter. Since 2002, Vitar has been a firefighter for the Los Angeles Fire Department. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
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Date: 22 December 1978
Ed on UN resolutions endorsing state censorship; says they are crucial because they expose central and mistaken conceit of UN; holds UN is disqualified from defending rights of people because it has become ultimate champion of nation-state against which those rights need most to be defended
Date: 21 December 1978
correction on Dec 20 story (S)
Date: 22 December 1978
By NICHOLAS GAGE Special to The New York Times
Nicholas Special
analysis of conflict between secularized Iranians and Moslems; por of religious leader Ayatollah Kazem Shareatmadary (M)
Date: 22 December 1978
chmn G Allan Burton and dirs refuse to sell shares in retail store chain to rival Hudson's Bay Co, which appears to have won control of Simpsons (S)
Date: 22 December 1978
Terrorists bomb bldgs in 4 Ital cities on 6th day of violence; police arrest 4 suspected members of Red Brigades in Florence, bringing to 17 number of terrorist suspects rounded up in 1 wk (S)
Date: 22 December 1978
Gene Woodling named scout (S)
Date: 21 December 1978
Constituent Assembly opens with question of new, internationally recognized elections high on agenda (S)
Date: 21 December 1978
results; Japan wins team medal champ (S)