The actor who famously played the teen caddie attacked by Adam Sandler in the cult classic “Happy Gilmore” is now well into his second successful career — as a neuroscientist on Long Island. 8

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But Jared Van Snellenberg, who played the brief but memorable role of getting strangled and tackled by Sandler in the 1996 hit flick, told The Post that being a lab director at Stony Brook’s Renaissance School of Medicine doesn’t mean he can escape his comic past.

“People come to participate in our research studies, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really care about being paid, can I just meet Dr. Van Snellenberg?’ ” the 44-year-old former actor told The Post.

The king of cameos, who now calls Floral Park home, is also conditioned to hearing lines such as, “Mister Gilmore, I’m your ca

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