Richard Eyer
| Richard Eyer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Ross Eyer May 6, 1945 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, School teacher |
| Years active | 1952-1967 |
| Spouse(s) | Laurie Lynn Seabern (1970-1983, divorced) 3 children |
| Children | Samantha Rae Eyer Benjamin Adam Eyer Andrew Z. Eyer |
Richard Ross Eyer (born May 6, 1945) is an American former child actor who worked during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as teaching at elementary schools in the eastern Sierra city of Bishop in Inyo County until he retired in 2006. He is the older brother of Robert Eyer (1948-2005), another child actor of the period.
Eyer played a war orphan in "Homeward Borne," an episode of Playhouse 90, August 22, 1957, on CBS.
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 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 Fredric March's dangerously impulsive son. He also starred in the 1958 western Fort Dobbs, with Clint Walker and Virginia Mayo. His last film was The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in 1958, in which he portrayed the metallic-voiced Barani the Genie.
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