Even though Peter Billingsley’s screen credits started to thin out in the 1990s, it doesn’t mean he had moved away from the business entirely. As mentioned earlier, the actor got more into behind-the-scenes work after a certain point, and that would become the bulk of his resume for his career between the late ’90s and today. But it started a few years before that, when — as Peter Michaelson — Billingsley served as a post-production supervisor for the 1993 B-movie “Arcade,” which he also starred in. As Michaelson, he also worked that same year as an assistant editor for a fantasy film called “Knights” with Kris Kristofferson and Lance Henriksen.
In 1994, Billingsley ambitiously wrote, directed, produced, and starred in his own project. Titled “The Sacred Fire,” it was an award-winning sci-fi short film that was included in a VHS compilation called “Midnight Follies” with three other shorts. Interestingly, most of his work as a producer and director has been in connection with a very famous longtime friend Billingsley met when the two were still teenagers.
