Joseph David Wolfgang Pichler (February 14, 1987 – disappeared January 5, 2006) is an American former child actor.

The fourth of five children, Pichler relocated to Los Angeles as a child to pursue his acting career.

In 2003, at the insistence of his family, he returned to his hometown of Bremerton, Washington (about 16 miles west of Seattle) and graduated from high school there in 2005.

According to family, Pichler had planned to return to Los Angeles the following year (after his braces were removed from his teeth) to resume his acting career.

[4][5] Robbie Davis, the lead detective on the case, told the Associated Press that "There's a good indication that it might have been a suicide, but we don't know that," adding that there was no reason to suspect foul play.