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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Eyer Biography )〕 ==Career== 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Eyer )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions )〕 His last film was ''The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' in 1958. He portrayed the metallic-voiced Barani the Genie.〔 He also starred in the Warner Bros. late 1950s 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 () ''Combat!."〔(Classic Images - Vol. 251 - May 1996 Issue )〕 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'', ''Mr. Novak'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', ''Father Knows Best'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Lassie'', ''Rawhide'' and ''General Electric Theater''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Eyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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