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War of The Buttons (1994)


Diary of a Wimpy Kid

CVMC: Richard Eyer
Date of birth: 1945-05-06

Appearances

TitleRoleYear Approx. Age
Stagecoach West TV - Disc 1,2,3 David KAne 1960 15
Johnny Rocco Johnny 1958 13
The Invisible Boy Timmie Merrinoe 1957 12
Come Next Spring Abraham 1956 11
Friendly Persuasion Little Jess Birdwell 1956 11
The Desperate Hours Ralphie Hilliard 1955 10
Sincerely Yours Alvie Hunt 1955 10
Ma and Pa Kettle - 2 Features Billy 1954 9

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 modeling competitions before he made his film debut in the early 1950s and at one point appeared with Esther Williams in magazine ads for Cole of California swimming suits. First TV acting occurred on cowboy star Roy Rogers' TV show.

Mainstream audiences may remember Eyer best as the youngster who runs "afowl" of the nipping goose in director William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion (1956), while sci-fi fans will recall that he had star billing and the title role in The Invisible Boy (1957), producer Nicholas Nayfack's independently-made follow-up to MGM's popular Forbidden Planet (1956). The same Robot was used in both films.

Eyers was one of the most prolific child stars of the 50's and early 60's appearing in over 100 popular TV shows of the era: The Loretta Young Show (1955), Lux Video Theatre (1956), Playhouse 90 (1957), Father Knows Best (1955 & again in 1958), Rawhide (1959), Gunsmoke (1959), Wagon Train (1960), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961). Dr. Kildare (1962), Lassie (1966) just to name a few.

You can see Eyers in an unusual role as the Boy Genie in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), and in a mememorable role opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours (1955).

Eyers almost left the business after his agent, Milton Rossner, died (he was 16). His last work was at the age of 22 in an episode of Combat (1967) in which he played a dying soldier.

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".

Eyer now lives in Bishop, California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and teaches elementary school.

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