Peter Billingsley was born 16 April 1971, also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen. Peter Billingsley is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Ralphie in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story. Peter Billingsley began his career as an infant, in television commercials.
Peter Billingsley 's first acting role was as a two-year-old in a Geritol commercial with Betty Buckley playing his mom. He went on to star in about 120 television ads throughout the 1970s and early 80s. At 12 he was quoted as saying: "After 100 (commercials), you lose count." He was likely best known for a series of commercials for Hershey's chocolate syrup in which he portrayed the popular character Messy Marvin.
One of Peter Billingsley 's earliest film roles was 1978's If Ever I See You Again (film), written and directed by Joseph Brooks. His role in 1981's Paternity opposite Burt Reynolds earned a nomination for "Best Young Comedian - Motion Picture or Television" at The Young Artist Awards. In 1981 he also appeared in Honky Tonk Freeway. In October 1981, Billingsley was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
In 1982 Peter Billingsley starred in several features, including Death Valley, Massarati and the Brain, and the made-for-TV movie Memories Never Die with Lindsay Wagner and his sister, Melissa Michaelsen. Billingsley also had a featured guest role as Gideon Hale on Little House on the Prairie. He also began a three-year stint as a co-host on NBC's popular Real People, which would also land him another Young Artist Award nomination. Peter Billingsley also hosted a two-episode offshoot of the show called Real Kids.
In 1983 Peter Billingsley starred in A Christmas Story, based on Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, which built its audience slowly over the years and is now broadcast twenty-four hours a day on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on TBS. A Christmas Story tells of a boy named Ralphie who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, while all the grown-ups in his life discourage him with the warning that "you'll shoot your eye out." This film earned Billingsley another Young Artist Award nomination, and is arguably the one role he is most associated with. Billingsley himself has been quoted as saying that people still approach him on the street, only to say "you'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
In 1984 Peter Billingsley starred in an adaptation of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency with Dick Van Patten and Gabe Kaplan, a special Thanksgiving episode of the PBSseries WonderWorks. Peter Billingsley also appeared on a "Super Teen" special edition of the popular Family Feud and on the game show Celebrity Hot Potato. As the late 1980s approached, Billingsley's acting career slowed. He was a guest star on Who's The Boss?, Punky Brewster, The Wonder Years, and Highway To Heaven, and appeared in the film The Dirt Bike Kid (for which he won a Young Artist Award), and Carly's Web, Russkies (alongside a young Joaquin Phoenix) and Beverly Hills Brats.
The early 1990s saw Peter Billingsley tackling older roles such as a would-be jock who gets hooked on steroids in the CBS Schoolbreak Special The Fourth Man. On that project he formed a close friendship with Vince Vaughn.
His next Schoolbreak Special appearance was in 1994's The Writing on the Wall, starring Hal Linden as a rabbi who teaches three boys about the horrors of intolerance after they are caught defacing his home, temple, and car with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti. Billingsley was nominated for an Emmy Award for this role.
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