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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...
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Wagon TrainSeries • 1957
Combat!Series • 1962
Dr. KildareSeries • 1961
Climax!Series • 1954
RawhideSeries • 1959
Wanted: Dead or AliveSeries • 1958
Father Knows BestSeries • 1954
GunsmokeSeries • 1955
Mr. NovakSeries • 1963
The 20th Century Fox HourSeries • 1955
Westinghouse Desilu PlayhouseSeries • 1958
Stoney BurkeSeries • 1962
Arrest and TrialSeries • 1963
Cavalcade of AmericaSeries • 1952
Lux Video TheatreSeries • 1950
Stagecoach WestSeries • 1960
The Great AdventureSeries • 1963
City DetectiveSeries • 1953
The 7th Voyage of SinbadMovie • 1958
Friendly PersuasionMovie • 1956
The Desperate HoursMovie • 1955
Fort DobbsMovie • 1958
The RaidMovie • 1954
Hell to EternityMovie • 1960