He appeared in an episode of The Equalizer in 1985 and starred in the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1988. From 1989 to 1991 he starred as Andy McAlister in the TV series Superboy. Ilan also starred in the movies The Chocolate War and Identity Crisis. In 2009 he starred in the video documentary Don’t You Forget About Me. In 1986 Mitchell-Smith was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Young Actor for Weird Science. Ilan went on to earn his doctoral degree from Texas A&M University in 2005 and is an associate professor at California State University, Long Beach. He married Susannah Denmaree in 1995 and they have two children.
