Career
He made guest appearances on television series like Bonanza, Perry Mason, Maverick, The Andy Griffith Show, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone (the 1963 episode "Ship)", Ben Casey, The Outer Limits, The Munsters, The Time Tunnel, Gomer Pyle, United States.M.C., Honey West, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Odd Couple, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Manitoba, The Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones, Dallas, and Lou Grant. On April 14, 1959, Beir played the alias Roy Cantwell, a respected schoolteacher in a quiet western town, in the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers series, Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role. Cantwell has hidden away $20,000 in loot from one of Garvin"s robberies.
Meanwhile, a tornado wipes out the schoolhouse and virtually the entire town though most of the inhabitants made it to safe shelter.
Beir died in Hollywood of cancer on June 3, 1980, aged 52.