Richard Eyer

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Biography

Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1945, Richard Eyer was the kid with the clean-cut, all-American look who won a number of "personality contests" and other competitions before he made his film debut in the early 1950s. Mainstream audiences may remember Eyer best as the youngster who runs "afowl" of the nipping goose in director 'William Wyler' . Eyer now lives in a small town East of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and teaches elementary school.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 06 May 1945
  • Place of birth
  • Santa Monica· California

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Brother of Robert Eyer

After leaving the entertainment industry, he became a teacher and taught elementary school children in Bishop, California.

Later owned a firm that constructed tennis courts.

Left the business around the age of 16 after his agent, Milton Rossner, died. His last work was on an episode of "Combat" in which he played a dying soldier.

First TV acting occurred on cowboy star Roy Rogers TV show.

Following several competitions and personality contests as a child, he moved into child modeling and at one point appeared with Esther Williams in ads for Cole of California swimming suits.

Has a daughter and twin sons.

He teaches third grade in Bishop, California, USA.

Director of the Concordia Bioethics Institute (now Concordia Center for Bioethics) at Concordia University Wisconsin, 1995-2002. Now director emeritus.

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