Richard Eyer

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 19601961 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 coowner Simon Kane played by the late Robert Bray The series a production of Dick Powells Four Star Television also starred Wayne Rogers later Trapper John on MASH Eyer was a boy with the cleancut allAmerican 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 Wylers Friendly Persuasion Science fiction viewers will remember him for the starring role in The Invisible Boy which was producer Nicholas Nayfacks independent sequel to MGMs Forbidden Planet In The Desperate Hours 1955 Eyer played Frederic Marchs dangerously impulsive son His last film was The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad in 1958 He portrayed the metallicvoiced Baronni the Genie He also starred in the Warner Bros late 50s western Fort Dobbs with Clint Walker amp 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 childrens 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 ABCs Combat He appeared in more than one hundred episodes of various television programs including Rod Camerons 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia