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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

41

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-05-06 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Santa Monica, California, USA

Also Known As

Richard Eyer

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.

Known For

Acting

The Invisible Boy

1957

The Invisible Boy

as

Timmie Merrinoe

Friendly Persuasion

1956

Friendly Persuasion

as

Little Jess Birdwell

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

1958

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

as

Barani the Genie

The Desperate Hours

1955

The Desperate Hours

as

Ralph Hilliard

The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956

The Kettles in the Ozarks

as

Billy Kettle

Slander

1957

Slander

as

Joey Martin

Fort Dobbs

1958

Fort Dobbs

as

Chad Gray

Canyon River

1956

Canyon River

as

Chuck Hale

Sincerely Yours

1955

Sincerely Yours

as

Alvie Hunt

Come Next Spring

1956

Come Next Spring

as

Abraham

Bailout at 43,000

1957

Bailout at 43,000

as

Kit Peterson

Johnny Rocco

1958

Johnny Rocco

as

Johnny Rocco

Hell to Eternity

1960

Hell to Eternity

as

Guy - as a Boy

Calhoun

1964

Calhoun

as

Hank Laird

The Raid

1954

The Raid

as

Larry's Friend (uncredited)

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

as

Robert Jackson

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

as

Tommy

Combat!

Combat!

as

Pvt. Kean

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

as

Jimmy Lane

Climax!

Climax!

as

Muldoon

Mr. Novak

Mr. Novak

as

Jeff Yorker

Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West

as

Davey Kane

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare

as

Bob Eckert

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta

as

Dickie Morris

Wagon Train

Wagon Train

as

Matthew Brant

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

as

Johnny Carterville

Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best

as

Grover Adams

Stoney Burke

Stoney Burke

as

Davey Cobb

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial

as

Jerry Burnham

Production

Crew

Directing