Roy C. Peterson Short Biography

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"Live in the Past
Work in the Present
Think in the Future"

Born Cape Cod MA.
Parents antique dealers North Falmouth
Move to Dover MA. Genteel people.
Pleasant childhood attending good schools

January 1964
Hit ninety miles per hour on skis at Black Mountain

August 1964
Occasional guitar and vocals with Mirkwood Trolls next eight years

November 1964
Research of Neolithic Artifacts next twenty one years

Summer 1966
Raise and train timber wolf cub. Learn dog show
techniques from Jack Cowley at Nether Lair Kennels

September 1966
Start Suffolk University as Psychology Major.
Study Karate briefly with Master Van Canna

October 1967
Get first Porsche, a gray 1962 356S Coupe with red leather.
Ralph Meaney lets me use huge drill to mount amber Corello Jod
fog lights on front bumper. Very gran tourissmo looking. Effective too

Spring 1969
Meet Victor Frankl at tea party in his honor after lecture at Suffolk Univesity

June 1970
Antique business next thirty four years
Historic house restorations next twenty one years

Summer 1973
Buy Ravenhurst in Royalston MA. Begin restorations

December 1973
Date women I meet out and about in Boston next nineteen years

January 1975
Guys in the Iron Butterfly save my life by
giving me ride to Quabbin Gateway when
wind chill factor is sixty eight below zero

Winter 1977
Begin sixty categories of study

September 1977
Start work under Massachusetts R E Broker License

February 1978
Begin writing career

Spring 1978
Climb Tully Mountain. First of many mountain adventures

March 1980
First big real estate listing. Fifteen million dollars. Within a
year have three billion dollars worth of listings on major office
buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities, oil refineries.
During this period nobody has more such properties listed.
Unfortunately freelance agents cannot get exclusive-right-to-sell.
No way to collect commissions. In 1983 begin getting out of this

Summer 1981
Finish writing book on Hermeticism

March 1982
Nice conversation with Dave Van Ronk after concert at Smith College

January 1983
Write short book on Heraldry

Summer 1983
Write books on Psychology, Free Enterprise, Survival  

August 1986
Move to Lyndonville VT. Castle on the Green. Begin restorations.
Start work under Massachusetts Nonresidents R E Broker License

January 1987
Begin seven year local Tour du Ski

Spring 1989
Economy in Northern New England has completely collapsed. Try
to save 350 jobs by finding buyer for a foreclosed airplane factory.
Bank auctions the machinery. Buyer can't afford new machinery.
Decide to offer Castle on the Green for sale while I still can.
My $1200 ad in Unique Homes gets inquiries from movie people:
Marcy Walker, Steven Collins, David Garris, Sharron Louallen.
Bass player for Boston, Frank Sheehan, visits with pretty girl

March 1992
Buy computer with printer. Teach myself to use it and to type.
Skiing out-of-bounds see human head in plastic bag. Avoid trail in future

August 1993
Cross USA in Eagle Talon Turbo. Average 100 MPH after Lincoln NB.
Move to Lake Wildwood CA. Witch House. Twenty six deer grazing golf
course first evening. Ultimately deer and turkeys eaten by mountain lions.
Transcription of books and new writing for the next five years.
Spend much time in the orchard country and in Paradise CA

December 1995
Begin writing book on Norse Mythology

January 2000
Live for awhile in Cedar Ridge with Jennifer who designs computer
programs for business. Cold and rainy for weeks. Use much firewood.
We enjoy many fine meals and fruit smoothies made with protein powder

February 2000
Move to Reno NV

July 2000
Begin work for Quintus Resorts under Nevada OPC License

March 2001
Build first website

May 18 2002
Invitation from World Civil Society Forum to seminars in Geneva.
Cannot attend. Fill out long questionnaire in lieu of participation  

January 2 2003
Visit Las Vegas for a one month working vacation

February 2003
Drive through Oregon to Washington State. Look at houses.
Fried oysters overlooking the Straights of Juan de Fuca.
Decide to live in Las Vegas and head back after two weeks

April 2003
Write short novel "Of Heroic Destiny" at UNLV
Establish Heroic Destiny Productions

July 2003
Build websites to showcase all previous writings

March 2 2004
Film Industry Mixer at the Palms Hotel. Meet producers

March 7 2004
Work in first independent film "Rose of Death"

March 10 2004
Begin selling timeshares under Nevada TSA License

November 2004
Leave new position as editor-in-chief of a certain slick Las Vegas lifestyle
magazine. Exciting job, but publisher is utterly without integrity. If you
sojourn with pigs, you will eventually acquire le eau de garbage.

May 2005
Work in first major studio picture "Lucky You"

September 17 2005
Begin film acting preliminaries at the Actor's Gym im Las Vegas

February 2006
Begin writing collection of true paranormal stories "Strange Phenomena"

March 2006
Start writing science fiction novel "The Future: Liberty or Death?"

June 2006
Retire from business. Only writing and acting from now on

September 2 2006
Begin acting studies at CSN

June 2007
Create website for "With Two Girlfriends" about sexual captivity

August 30 2007
Begin film studies at CSN

June 17 2008
Begin writing film reviews. Create website

October 3-5 2008
First comedy. Tri Card player in "The Hangover"

November 2008
Screen twenty four films as judge for 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival

January 2010
Finish second feature-lenth screenpplay.

June 2010
Complete my twenty-four semester hours of acting, film studies, and fiction workshops at CSN with a 3.57 GPA.

August 2010
Begin acting and film studues at UNLV.

November 2010
Make two short movies working with students from the UNLV film department. Results are very good. I look so bad on camera, however, that I'll be ephasizing film studies from here on. I'm good at acting, but one has to have the right look, after all. I can do small roles or quick cameos in my own projects later.

January 2011
Register two feature length screenplays with the WGA. It's hard to get read by agents so I'm contacting stars and directors. I may have to go under contract for a development deal.

April 2011
Do background in scene with Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall for "Lay the Favorite".

As of this point. I am out of the film industry. See "personal" page for ongoing biographical summary.