Meeno Peluce

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Meeno Peluce
Born
Miro Fiore Peluce

(1970-02-26) February 26, 1970 (age 53)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma materUC Santa Cruz
Occupation(s)Photographer, actor
Years active1977present
SpouseIlse Ackermann
Children2
Relatives Soleil Moon Frye (half-sister)
Website meenophoto.com

Miro Fiore "Meeno" Peluce (born February 26, 1970) is a Dutch-born American photographer and actor.

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Life and career

Peluce was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Sondra Londy, a Jewish-American personal manager and caterer, and Floyd Peluce, a certified public accountant. [1] He has one half-sister, actress Soleil Moon Frye, whose father was actor Virgil Frye. [2]

Peluce made guest appearances on television shows during the 1970s and early 1980s, including Starsky & Hutch , Kojak , Benson , The Love Boat , Diff'rent Strokes , The Incredible Hulk , Happy Days , The A-Team , Silver Spoons , Manimal , Remington Steele , Scarecrow and Mrs. King , and on Punky Brewster with his half-sister (who played the titular character). Among his regular television roles were Tanner Boyle in The Bad News Bears , Daniel Best in Best of the West , and as history prodigy Jeffrey Jones in Voyagers! . He appeared in the pilot episode of the M*A*S*H spin-off W*A*L*T*E*R with Gary Burghoff, but the series was never picked up.

He has worked as a writer and director. He appeared in several television films, including The Ghost of Flight 401 , Night Cries, Fast Friends, and World War III . He starred in the original 1979 theatrical release of The Amityville Horror as one of the Lutz children, and also appeared in the 1981 horror film Don't Go Near the Park . Peluce also appeared in the music video for "The Last in Line" by the group Dio.

Peluce attended UC Santa Cruz and worked as a history teacher at Hollywood High School in the 1990s. He returned to film during 1998, co-writing and co-producing Wild Horses (also titled Lunch Time Special) with sister Soleil Moon Frye, and in 2001 when he appeared in Alex in Wonder (also titled Sex and a Girl).

Peluce is a photographer with celebrity studio sessions to his credit.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1977 Starsky & Hutch Guy MayerS3 E7
1978 Kojak ChristopherS5 E18, "Halls of Terror"
1978 The Incredible Hulk The BoyS2 E1, "Married"
1979 Don't Go Near the Park Nick
1979 The Amityville Horror Matt Lutz
1979 The Bad News Bears Tanner BoyleSeries regular
1980 The Jeffersons BillyS7 E8 "All I Want for Christmas"
1982 Voyagers! Jeffrey Jones
1983 The A-Team Joey TataroS1 E4, "Pros and Cons"
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Aleksei KalnikovS1 E5, "The ACM Kid"
1984 W*A*L*T*E*R Elston Krennick
1984 Remington Steele JackyS3 E7 "A Pocketful of Steele"
2001 Alex in Wonder Eric the Hippie

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