Stewart Petersen has no regrets living out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n
The 64-year-old Cokeville, Wyoming man was cast as Billy Coleman in the 1974 film, \u201cWhere the Red Fern Grows.\u201d He was only 13 at the time and went on to appear in half a dozen family-friendly films over the next six years. He left the film industry for good at that point.<\/p>\n
RELATED | Former child actor with ties to eastern Idaho has no regrets living out of the spotlight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n RELATED | Sculpture in downtown Idaho Falls pays tribute to popular children\u2019s author who once lived here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview with Rett Nelson on \u201cIt\u2019s Worth Mentioning,\u201d the former child actor says it was never his desire or intention to get into the film business, and it\u2019s only through a family connection that he had the opportunity in the first place.<\/p>\n In this episode, Petersen shares how the opportunity came to him and his memories of working on \u201cRed Fern\u201d and other film projects. He also discusses his faith, unique ties to eastern Idaho and what he\u2019s up to now.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve ever wondered what happened to Petersen, this is an episode you don\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n Watch previous episodes here<\/a>. If you have a topic or guest idea you\u2019d like us to explore, email rett@eastidahonews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t \t \t \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?>%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?>%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(‘For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.’)?>&subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews” class=”fa-stack jDialog”> \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart Petersen has no regrets living out of the spotlight. The 64-year-old Cokeville, Wyoming man was cast as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-384611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563579978277738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}