Amanda Peterson

Amanda Peterson

Born: July 8, 1971
Died: July 3, 2015
in Greeley, Colorado, USA
Phyllis Amanda Peterson (July 8, 1971 – July 3, 2015) was an American actress.

Movies for Amanda Peterson...

WindRunner
Title: WindRunner
Character: Julie Moore
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A young man in high school moves in with his Mother to a town in the U.S. Southwest where his father is serving time in prison.
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Title: Jack's Place
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Evans is a retired jazz musician who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start.
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Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories
Title: Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories
Character: Abigail Baywood
Released: November 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Three women, who seem to have nothing in common: Abigail is a college student at Yale and daughter of one of the professors; Meredith is a married mother and owner of a bowling alley; Janet is a successful broker -- yet all of them decide to pose for Playboy magazine, shocking their friends and co-workers.
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Hell Hath No Fury
Title: Hell Hath No Fury
Character: Michelle Ferguson
Released: March 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A woman is simultaneously framed for the murder of her husband and terrorized by the deranged woman who actually killed him.
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Fatal Charm
Title: Fatal Charm
Character: Valerie
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, and soon they begin sending each other letters. Adam is caught up in a jailbreak and ends up on the run.
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Title: Doogie Howser, M.D.
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants.
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Listen to Me
Title: Listen to Me
Character: Donna Lumis
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: Movie
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family.
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Love and Betrayal
Title: Love and Betrayal
Character: Stefanie Landry
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Caroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idealistic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With the help of her friends and children, Caroline learns to pick herself up again and do the impossible - move on with her life.
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The Lawless Land
Title: The Lawless Land
Character: Diana
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
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Title: A Year in the Life
Character: Sunny Sisk
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.
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Can't Buy Me Love
Title: Can't Buy Me Love
Character: Cindy Mancini
Released: August 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though they're a couple for an entire month. As the days pass, however, Cindy grows fond of Ronald, making him popular. But when Ronald's former best friend gets left behind, he realizes that social success isn't everything.
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Title: A Year in the Life
Character: Sunny Silk
Released: December 15, 1986
Type: TV
A year, from Christmas to Christmas, in the lives of the Gardners.
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Explorers
Title: Explorers
Character: Lori Swenson
Released: July 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
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And the Children Shall Lead
Title: And the Children Shall Lead
Character: Jenny
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
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Best Kept Secrets
Title: Best Kept Secrets
Character: Gretchen
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
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Title: Boone
Character: Squirt Sawyer
Released: September 26, 1983
Type: TV
Boone is a dramatic television series which was broadcast on NBC from 1983 to 1984. It starred Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin. Byrd played teenager Boone Sawyer, who aspires to a career in rock and roll music, despite the advice of his stern father, Merit Sawyer, played by Corbin, who wants Boone to join him in the automobile repair business. The setting of the series is Tennessee in the early 1950s, when great changes began to occur in popular music, with the rise of Elvis Presley. Ten weekly episodes began airing on September 26, 1983, and three remaining segments were broadcast in the summer of 1984, the last on August 11. The series was created by Earl Hamner, Jr. Ronnie Claire Edwards, an Oklahoma City native who played Corabeth Godsey, the bossy wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey in The Waltons, portrayed Aunt Dolly Sawyer in Boone. William Edward Phipps played her husband Link Sawyer, the owner of Link's Orchid Lounge, where Boone and his friend, Rome Hawley, sometimes performed. Other stars included Elizabeth Huddle as Boone's mother, Faye, who wanted Boone to commit to the ministry, as his older brother, Dwight, had done prior to Dwight's death in World War II. Julie Anne Haddock was cast as Amanda; Robyn Lively, Banjo; and Amanda Peterson, Boone's young sister, Squirt Sawyer.
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Title: Silver Spoons
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: TV
Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987. The series was produced by Embassy Television for the first four seasons, until Embassy Communications moved the series to syndication. Silver Spoons was created by Martin Cohan, Howard Leeds and Ben Starr. The show's title refers to family wealth and to the expression that rich children are born with "silver spoons" in their mouths—they are given only the very best and want for nothing.
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Annie
Title: Annie
Character: Dancer
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
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Title: Father Murphy
Character: Elizabeth
Released: November 3, 1981
Type: TV
A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.