In 1960–1961, Eyer was cast in the role of the teenaged David "Davey" Kane on the American Broadcasting Company television Western series Stagecoach West, having portrayed the fictional son of stagecoach co-owner Simon Kane, played by Robert Bray.
He is the older brother of Robert Eyer (1948-2005), another child actor of the period. Eyer played a war orphan in "Homeward Borne," an episode of Playhouse 90, August 22, 1957, on Columbia Broadcasting System. The series, a production of Dick Powell"s Four Star Television, also starred Wayne Rogers, later Trapper John on M*A*South*H.
In 1956, he was the youngster who runs "afowl" of the goose in director William Wyler"s Friendly Persuasion. Science fiction viewers will remember him for the starring role in The Invisible Boy, which was producer Nicholas Nayfack"s independent sequel to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"s Forbidden Planet.
In The Desperate Hours (1955), Eyer played Fredric March"s dangerously impulsive son.
He also starred in the 1958 western Fort Dobbs, with Clint Walker and Virginia Mayo. His last film was The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in 1958, in which he portrayed the metallic-voiced Barani the Genie.
In a 1995 interview, Eyer credited his mother for the promotion of his acting career. "lieutenant was all her work that did lieutenant
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 Combat!."
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.
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. 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.
