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Richard Eyer
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Richard Eyer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1945-05-06,Santa Monica, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Ross Eyer (born May 6, 1945, Santa Monica, California) is a former American child actor during the 1950s and 1960s who taught elementary school in the eastern Sierra city of Bishop in Inyo County until he retired in 2006. He is the older brother of Robert Eyer (b. May 6, 1948), another child actor of the period who is deceased. In 1960–1961, Eyer was cast in the role of the teenaged David "Davey" Kane on the ABC television Western series Stagecoach West, having portrayed the fictional son of stagecoach co-owner Simon Kane, played by the late Robert Bray. The series, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television, also starred Wayne Rogers, later Trapper John on M*A*S*H. Eyer was a boy with "'the clean-cut, all-American look" who won "personality contests" and other competitions before he made his film debut in the early 1950s. In 1956, he was the youngster who runs "afowl" of the goose in director William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion. Science fiction viewers will remember him for the starring role in The Invisible Boy, which was producer Nicholas Nayfack's independent sequel to MGM's Forbidden Planet. In The Desperate Hours (1955), Eyer played Frederic March's dangerously impulsive son. His last film was The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad in 1958. He portrayed the metallic-voiced Baronni the Genie. He also starred in the Warner Bros. late '50s western, "Fort Dobbs", with Clint Walker & Virginia Mayo. In a 1995 interview, Eyer credited his mother for the promotion of his acting career. "It was all her work that did it. I had curly hair, freckles, and people would say what a cute kid he was and all that; so my mother entered me in some children’s personality contests, and I won one of these which had been held at the Hollywood Bowl, and I guess that one was the springboard in getting me started. After that, I was hired for some television commercials and some modeling jobs, and this led into other things ... I was around fourteen when I did Stagecoach West ... My last role was at age 21, appearing in an episode of [ABC's] Combat!." He appeared in more than one hundred episodes of various television programs, including Rod Cameron's syndicated City Detective, when he was eight years of age. Other appearances include Arrest and Trial, Stoney Burke, Wagon Train, Father Knows Best, Mr. Novak, Gunsmoke, Lassie, Rawhide and General Electric Theater. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Eyer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

The Invisible Boy

5.2

The Invisible Boy
1957-10-01

Friendly Persuasion

6.684

Friendly Persuasion
1956-10-30

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

6.923

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958-12-05

The Desperate Hours

7

The Desperate Hours
1955-10-05

The Kettles in the Ozarks

7.083

The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956-04-01

6.5

Slander
1957-01-18

6.775

Fort Dobbs
1958-04-18

6.5

Canyon River
1956-08-04

Sincerely Yours

5.938

Sincerely Yours
1955-11-05

Come Next Spring

5.875

Come Next Spring
1956-03-09

Bailout at 43,000

5.286

Bailout at 43,000
1957-05-01

5.6

Johnny Rocco
1958-12-21

Hell to Eternity

6.4

Hell to Eternity
1960-08-01

6

Calhoun
1964-07-08

6.5

The Raid
1954-08-04

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

6.5

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954-03-10

8

Homeward Borne
1957-05-09

The Great Adventure

10

The Great Adventure
1963-09-27

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.8

Combat!
1962-10-02

General Electric Theater

6.833

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

6.333

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

3.833

Climax!
1954-10-07

The 20th Century Fox Hour

6

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955-10-05

Wanted: Dead or Alive

7.014

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06

7.333

Mr. Novak
1963-09-24

Stagecoach West

6.667

Stagecoach West
1960-10-04

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

5.711

Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27

7.5

City Detective
1953-09-07

8

Panic!
1957-03-05

Letter to Loretta

6.571

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

6.6

Wagon Train
1957-09-18

General Electric Theater

6.833

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

Father Knows Best

6.667

Father Knows Best
1954-10-03

6.75

Stoney Burke
1962-10-01

Arrest and Trial

8.25

Arrest and Trial
1963-09-15

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

8.5

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953-10-02