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Richard Eyer

Richard Eyer

Known For Acting
Birthday May 06, 1945 (80)
Birthplace Santa Monica, California, USA
Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Aug 04, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 Rob ... ert 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

Filmography

Calhoun

Calhoun

1964

as Hank Laird

Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

1960

as Guy - as a Boy

Johnny Rocco

Johnny Rocco

1958

as Johnny Rocco

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

1958

as Barani the Genie

Fort Dobbs

Fort Dobbs

1958

as Chad Gray

The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy

1957

as Timmie Merrinoe

Bailout at 43,000

Bailout at 43,000

1957

as Kit Peterson

Slander

Slander

1957

as Joey Martin

Canyon River

Canyon River

1956

as Chuck Hale

Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1956

as Little Jess Birdwell

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring

1956

as Abraham

The Kettles in the Ozarks

The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956

as Billy Kettle

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours

1955

as Ralph Hilliard

Sincerely Yours

Sincerely Yours

1955

as Alvie Hunt

The Raid

The Raid

1954

as Larry's Friend (uncredited)

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Stagecoach West

as Davey Kane

Episodes: 38

First Aired: Oct 04, 1960

The Great Adventure

as Robert Jackson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1963

Gunsmoke

as Tommy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Combat!

as Pvt. Kean

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1962

General Electric Theater

as Tommy Stevens

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Lux Video Theatre

as Jimmy Lane

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1950

Climax!

as Muldoon

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 07, 1954

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Montana Kid

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1958

Mr. Novak

as Jeff Yorker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1963

Cavalcade of America

as Tony Lucas

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1952

Dr. Kildare

as Bob Eckert

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1961

Letter to Loretta

as Dickie Morris

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1953

Wagon Train

as Matthew Brant

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 18, 1957

General Electric Theater

as Johnny Carterville

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Cavalcade of America

as Tim Kendall

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1952

Cavalcade of America

as Brian Beck

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1952

Father Knows Best

as Grover Adams

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 1954

Stoney Burke

as Davey Cobb

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1962

Arrest and Trial

as Jerry Burnham

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 15, 1963

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1958

Rawhide

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 09, 1959

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1951

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1955

City Detective

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 07, 1953

Panic!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 05, 1957

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