Jeff Cohen (actor)

Jeffrey Bertan Cohen, J.D. is an American attorney and former child actor best remembered for appearing as Chunk in the 1985 Steven Spielberg production The Goonies.

Cohen was born Jeffrey Bertan McMahon in Los Angeles, and took his stage name from the maiden name of his mother, Elaine Cohen. Since the part of Chunk entailed a lot of mockery at Cohens considerable girth, he took up high school football and has since lost a great deal of weight as an adult. Cohen was one of the kids describing words to the contestants on the 198283 CBS game show Childs Play, and during the summer of 1985 he appeared as a celebrity on Body Language. According to a 2014 story on Cohen in the magazine of the American Bar Association, the ABA Journal, puberty hit and forced Cohen into early retirement.

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