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 Bishop, California 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 1960â€"1961, Eyer was cast
in the role of the teenaged Davey Kane, son of stagecoach co-owner
Simon Kane on the ABC television Western series Stagecoach West, a
production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.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 played the youngest Birdwell child in director William
Wyler's Friendly Persuasion.
who worked during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as teaching at
elementary schools in Bishop, California 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 1960â€"1961, Eyer was cast
in the role of the teenaged Davey Kane, son of stagecoach co-owner
Simon Kane on the ABC television Western series Stagecoach West, a
production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.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 played the youngest Birdwell child in director William
Wyler's Friendly Persuasion.
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