Peter Billingsley
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Peter Billingsley (born April 16, 1971), also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, Jack Simmons in The Dirt Bike Kid, Billy in Death Valley, and as Messy Marvin in the Hershey's chocolate syrup advertisements in the 1970s.
He started his career as an infant in television commercials.
Early life
Peter was born in New York City. Alwin Michaelsen, his father, is a financial advisor, and Gail, his mother, was once Alwin's secretary. She is the niece of Stork Club founder Sherman Billingsley and the cousin of Glenn Billingsley, who was married to actress Barbara Billingsley.
Both five children in the family had acting careers as youth. Dina and Winn had the longest acting careers in commercials, with minor guest appearances on television shows. Melissa, Peter's elder sister, is best known for her role as Maxx Davis on Me and Maxx. Neil Walton, Peter's older brother, began playing Danny Walton on the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow in 1975 and has appeared in numerous commercials and guest shots on television shows.
Peter Billingsley obtained his early childhood education from a combination of tutors, public schools, and private schools (including the Professional Children's School in New York City), and private schools (including the Professional Children's School in New York City), and the Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, Arizona), and the California High School Proficiency Exam was passed at the age of 14. Following the GED, including Arcadia High School (Phoenix), he seems to have attended several public secondary schools (Phoenix).
Billingsley, a spokesman for the young astronaut program, was present on launch pad 39B (at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida) in 1986 for the doomed launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Career
Billingsley's first acting role was as a two-year-old in a Geritol commercial, with Betty Buckley playing his mother. He went on to appear in about 120 television advertisements from the 1970s to the early 1980s. "You lose count after 100 [commercials]," he was quoted as saying at 12. He was best known for a string of commercials for Hershey's chocolate syrup, in which he portrayed Messy Marvin. If Ever I See You Again, written and directed by Joseph Brooks, was one of Billingsley's oldest film appearances.
At the Young Artist Awards, his role in 1981's Paternity opposite Burt Reynolds was nominated for "Best Young Comedian – Motion Picture or Television." He appeared in Honky Tonk Freeway in 1981. Billingsley appeared in many films, including Death Valley, Massarati, and the Brain, as well as the made-for-TV film Memories Never Die with Lindsay Wagner and his sister, Melissa. On the Prairie, he appeared as Gideon Hale on NBC's popular Real People (for which he earned another Young Artist Award nomination) and hosted a two-episode offshoot of the program Real Kids.
Billingsley appeared in A Christmas Story, based on Jean Shepherd's book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, which gradually grew in popularity over the years and is now broadcast for 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day on TBS. Billingsley received another Young Artist Award nomination for his film, and it's arguably the one role with which he is most associated. People continue to approach him on the street, but only to say, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" He will reprise his role in a HBO Max sequel film directed by Clay Kaytis.
Billingsley appeared in an adaptation of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency starring Dick Van Patten and Gabe Kaplan, a special Thanksgiving episode of the PBS series WonderWorks. He appeared on a "Super Teen" special edition of Family Feud and on Celebrity Hot Potato.
Billingsley's acting career slowed in the late 1980s as the late 1980s approached. He appeared on Who's The Boss?, Punky Brewster, The Wonder Years, and Highway To Heaven, as well as In The Dirt Bike Kid (for which he received a Young Artist Award), Carly's Web, Russkies, and Beverly Hills Brats, as a guest speaker.
In the CBS Schoolbreak Special The Fourth Man, Billingsley was seen in early 1990s as a young celebrity addicted to steroids, as a would-be athlete who gets hooked on steroids. He developed a close relationship with Vince Vaughn on that venture. Hal Linden appeared in The Writing on the Wall (1994), a story about three boys' inability after they were found defacing his house, temple, and garage with swastikas and antisemitic graffiti. Billingsley was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work.
Arcade (1993), in which he starred as a teen "virtual reality" addict, was the most rewarding of his post-production work (credited as Peter Michaelsen). He made some career choices and started working behind the scenes more. He was assistant editor on Knights, a film starring Kris Kristofferson. Peter starred, wrote, and directed the short film The Sacred Fire in 1994, and was credited as Peter Michaelsen in the executive producer role. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films' Golden Scroll Award was given to this film.
His film career went on, including work on The Discovery Channel's A.R.K. In which he appears in the film, The New Adventures of Animal Rescue Kids, Patriot Son, The X Show, Made, and Elf In which he appears in which he appears is the protagonist, he has a cameo appearance. In 2001, he was nominated for an Emmy Award as co-executive producer for the show Dinner for Five. He appeared in 2005 and was a producer on the film Zathura. He was an executive producer on Universal Pictures' The Break-Up, in which he played a small part (as Andrew), and he appeared alongside frequent collaborator Jon Favreau. Billingsley appeared in director Favreau's Iron Man feature film, as well as actor William Ginter Riva, a scientist who works for Obadiah Stane; he reprised the role later this year in the film Spider-Man: Far From Home. In Four Christmases (2008), Billingsley, Favreau, and Vaughn appeared. Couples Retreat, starring Favreau and Vaughn, was Billingsley's first big film as producer, and was followed by his second directorial effort Term Life, which also starred Vaughn.
Billingsley's acting career continues to flourish, as seen in Sherman Oaks, Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare, Elf, L.A. Heat, and No Deposit, No Return, which was voted Best Feature Film at the New York International Film and Video Festival in 2000. He appeared in an experimental film for Dean Goodhill's new Maxivision 48 projection system.
Billingsley's Christmas Stories...Christmas Songs on Run For Cover Records in 1999 with longtime friend Brian Evans. He took over as executive producer of a musical version of A Christmas Story, which opened in Seattle in December 2010. He is "honored to be a part of this initiative and looks forward to seeing the play on full throttle."
Billingsley will reprise his role as Ralph in a Warner Bros. Pictures and HBO Max's A Christmas Story Christmas.