who played gideon on little house on the prairie
Peter Billingsley His role in 1981's Paternity opposite Burt Reynolds earned a nomination for "Best Young Comedian â€“ Motion Picture or Television" at The Young Artist Awards.[7] In 1981, he appeared in Honky Tonk Freeway, and that October was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1982 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. He had a featured guest role as Gideon Hale on Little House on the Prairie, began a three-year stint as a co-host on NBC's popular Real People (for which he earned another Young Artist Award nomination),[7] and he hosted a two-episode offshoot of the show called Real Kids.