Paul Petersen

Acting

Paul Petersen

Born 1945-09-23 · Glendale, California, U.S.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Petersen (born September 23, 1945) is an American movie actor, singer, novelist, and activist. Primarily known for his character-type roles in the 1960s and 1970s, as an adult Petersen established the organization A Minor Consideration to support child stars and other child laborers through legislation, family education, and personal intervention and counseling for those in crisis. Petersen achieved fame in the 1960s playing Donna Reed's son, Jeff Stone, on The Donna Reed Show. In the early 1980s, he also had a recurring role as a police officer on Matt Houston, and in the late 1990s, he played the author Paul Conway in the film Mommy's Day. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Petersen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star poster
5.1

TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday loser.

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

2003

Houseboat poster
6.4

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

Houseboat

1958

The Monolith Monsters poster
6.5

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

The Monolith Monsters

1957

A Time for Killing poster
4.8

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.

A Time for Killing

1967

The Happiest Millionaire poster
6.9

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her father--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible classes?

The Happiest Millionaire

1967

Journey to Shiloh poster
5.4

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Journey to Shiloh

1968

This Could Be the Night poster
6.1

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

This Could Be the Night

1957

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room poster
6.6

Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major child stars, Baby Peggy.

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

2012

The Portal poster
4.4

Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.

The Portal

2010

Mommy's Day poster
3.3

After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders are continuing, it doesn't look very good for Mommy.

Mommy's Day

1997

Gidget Grows Up poster
6.7

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

Gidget Grows Up

1969

Something for a Lonely Man poster
7.6

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.

Something for a Lonely Man

1968

High School U.S.A. poster
4.2

Principal of Excelsior High School deals with a rivalry between student groups and his own interest in the new counselor.

High School U.S.A.

1984

Scout's Honor poster
7.5

Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best Cub Scout ever. Pearl Bartlett (Katherine Helmond) is a hard-working executive who dislikes children, but she must take on a troop of Cub Scouts and become a den mother to save her job. Somewhere along the way, Joey teaches Pearl the true meaning of caring.

Scout's Honor

1980

The Hollywood Complex poster
6.8

Every spring, Hollywood hosts a very species-specific migration: kids. Thousands of aspiring child actors flock to Tinseltown for pilot season, the traditional casting period for new network and cable television shows. But unlike adult actors who pound the same star-lined pavement, kids come with their families. Many set up camp at the Oakwood, a temporary housing complex that caters to the showbiz flock.

The Hollywood Complex

2011

That Guy Dick Miller poster
7.0

Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.

That Guy Dick Miller

2014

In the Year 2889 poster
3.2

The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.

In the Year 2889

1969

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NR

What happens in a small town Newsroom when it is rumored that the Messiah is serving soup at a local Church Festival.

Soupernatural

2010

Affæren Birte poster
5.7

A large city is in a state of panic, in workplaces and in homes people are discussing the terrible fate that has befallen a little girl named Birte. A sex offender has been at play, he has been haunting the city's parks and facilities for a long time, and his latest victim is Birte Elkær, daughter of the scientist Hans Elkær and his wife Martha. The police have deployed extra personnel, and they are now searching for the second day. Will the little girl be found alive?

Affæren Birte

1945