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. He has one half-sister, actress
Soleil Moon Frye, whose father was actor
Virgil Frye. Peluce made guest appearances on television shows during the 1970s and early 1980s, including
Starsky & Hutch,
The Jeffersons,
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). ==Filmography==