In 1949, Beymer began acting in television in a Los Angeles TV series for children Sandy Dreams.
29 Facts About Richard Beymer
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Richard Beymer did it for three years, rehearsing after school during the week and recording it on Saturdays.
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Richard Beymer made his feature-film debut in Vittorio De Sica's Stazione Termini.
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Richard Beymer was under contract to Jones' husband, David O Selznick, for a year.
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Richard Beymer found himself in much demand on television: Cavalcade of America and Johnny Tremain.
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Richard Beymer guest starred in 26 Men, Zane Grey Theatre, Make Room for Daddy, The Gray Ghost, Navy Log, Whirlybirds, Sky King, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, and Schlitz Playhouse.
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Richard Beymer auditioned unsuccessfully for the role played by Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause.
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Richard Beymer achieved success when George Stevens cast him in The Diary of Anne Frank playing Peter Van Daan.
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Richard Beymer was put under contract to 20th Century Fox and started to be regarded as an exciting future star.
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In June 1960, Richard Beymer was cast in the lead role of Tony in West Side Story, a huge hit.
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Richard Beymer was reunited with Weld in the Fox comedy Bachelor Flat.
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Richard Beymer was given the role of Nick Adams in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man for Fox, with an all-star supporting cast.
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Richard Beymer had a significant role in the film The Longest Day, which was successful, but he was unhappy with his acting in the film.
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In December 1962, Richard Zanuck of Fox wanted Beymer in Illicit, based on a story by Vera Caspary but the film was not made; neither was A Promise at Dawn with Ingrid Bergman after Fox studio shut down temporarily due to cost overruns.
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In 1964, Richard Beymer became involved in Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
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Richard Beymer assisted Barney Frank in rescuing Freedom Democrat forms in a rental truck that had been confiscated from arrested Freedom volunteers in Canton, Mississippi on Freedom Day.
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Richard Beymer turned to filmmaking with The Innerview, which he wrote, produced and directed as well as starred.
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Richard Beymer starred in, wrote and directed episodes of the television series Insight.
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Richard Beymer lived for two years in a commune and worked in Switzerland.
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Richard Beymer returned to Los Angeles in 1982 to reactivate his career.
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Richard Beymer had roles in Paper Dolls, playing the husband of Mimi Rogers, and Generation.
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Richard Beymer was widely seen in Twin Peaks playing Ben Horne.
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Richard Beymer followed it in Blackbelt and The Presence.
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Richard Beymer could be seen in Under Investigation, My Girl 2, State of Emergency, The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, several episodes of Murder, She Wrote, A Face to Die For, The Little Death, Foxfire, Elvis Meets Nixon and Home: the Horror Story.
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Richard Beymer was in episodes of Flipper, The X-Files, Vengeance Unlimited, Profiler, and Family Law.
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Richard Beymer reprised his role as Ben Horne in the third season of Twin Peaks in 2017.
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In 2019, Richard Beymer visited the set of Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story.
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In December 2021, the film's star, Rachel Zegler, released two photos on her Instagram page: One of Richard Beymer sitting next to Spielberg; another of Richard Beymer hugging Zegler while screenwriter Tony Kushner looked on.
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Richard Beymer was in Sadie's Waltz then focused on directing documentaries: The Passing of a Saint, It's a Beautiful World, Richard Beymer's Before.