- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 6, 1945
- Place of Birth
- Santa Monica, California, USA
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 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…
Filmography
movieCalhoun
1964 · Hank Laird
tvThe Great Adventure
1963 · Robert Jackson
tvMr. Novak
1963 · Jeff Yorker
tvArrest and Trial
1963 · Jerry Burnham
tvCombat!
1962 · Pvt. Kean
tvStoney Burke
1962 · Davey Cobb
tvDr. Kildare
1961 · Bob Eckert
tvStagecoach West
1960 · Davey Kane
movieHell to Eternity
1960 · Guy - as a Boy
tvRawhide
1959
movieJohnny Rocco
1958 · Johnny Rocco
movieThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958 · Barani the Genie
tvWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
tvWanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Montana Kid
movieFort Dobbs
1958 · Chad Gray
movieThe Invisible Boy
1957 · Timmie Merrinoe
tvWagon Train
1957 · Matthew Brant
movieHomeward Borne
1957 · Tommy Lyttleton
movieBailout at 43,000
1957 · Kit Peterson
tvPanic!
1957
movieSlander
1957 · Joey Martin
movieFriendly Persuasion
1956 · Little Jess Birdwell
movieCanyon River
1956 · Chuck Hale
movieThe Kettles in the Ozarks
1956 · Billy Kettle
movieCome Next Spring
1956 · Abraham
movieSincerely Yours
1955 · Alvie Hunt
movieThe Desperate Hours
1955 · Ralph Hilliard
tvThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Tommy
tvClimax!
1954 · Muldoon
tvFather Knows Best
1954 · Grover Adams
movieThe Raid
1954 · Larry's Friend (uncredited)
movieMa and Pa Kettle at Home
1954 · Billy Kettle
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953 · Pete
tvLetter to Loretta
1953 · Dickie Morris
tvCity Detective
1953
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Tommy Stevens, Johnny Carterville
tvCavalcade of America
1952 · Tony Lucas, Brian Beck, Tim Kendall
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Jimmy Lane