Jason Marsden is often mixed up with fellow teen idol James Marsden. James has the muscles, but Jason has the smile. And he's a stronger gay ally.
An active child star, Jason got his start at age 11, playing A. J. Quartermaine on
General Hospital (1986-88) and werewolf-boy Eddie Munster on the remake of the classic 1960s tv series
The Munsters (1988-91).
As a teenager and young adult, he occasionally played a girl's boyfriend, but more often, a boy's homoromantic best buddy: his characters bonded with Omri Katz in the paranormal-investigator series
Eerie Indiana (1992), Perry King in
Almost Home (1993), Brandon Call (left) on
Step by Step (1993-98), Will Friedle on
Boy Meets World (1994-95), Jeff Bridges in
White Squall (1996), and Robert Downey Jr. on
Allie McBeal (1997).
In a 2002 episode of
Will and Grace, he plays "the pocket gay," who is rejected by Will for being too short but eventually wins him over.
Jason has been doing cartoon voice work since 1990. He may be best known as the voice of Chester McBadBat, working-class boyfriend of the elite A.J. on
Fairly Oddparents (2003-2011); and Max Goof, surly teenage son of Disney's Goofy in
Goof Troop (1992-3), two movies (1995, 2002), and
House of Mouse (2001-2002), for some reason a gay fan favorite and the subject of lots of homoerotic slash fiction.
His only significant beefcake shots were in
Return to the Batcave (2003), an adventure involving the real life Adam West and
Burt Ward, Batman and Robin from the 1960s tv series. As the young Burt Ward, Jason displayed an impressive muscular physique.
He also looked impressive below the belt, but that may have been necessary to the plot, which devotes a great deal of time to the censors fretting over the Boy Wonder's massive endowment.
