Career
Eyer played a war orphan in "Homeward Borne", an episode of Playhouse 90 , August 22, 1957, on CBS. [3]
In 1956, he played a boy named Chuck in Canyon River which starred George Montgomery and Peter Graves. He had the starring role in The Invisible Boy , producer Nicholas Nayfack's independent sequel to MGM's Forbidden Planet . [4]
In The Desperate Hours (1955), Eyer played Fredric March's dangerously impulsive son. [5] He also starred in the 1958 western Fort Dobbs , with Clint Walker and Virginia Mayo and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in 1958, in which he portrayed the metallic-voiced Barani the Genie. [5]
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 [ABC's] Combat! " [6]
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 . [4]
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