Fred Beir

Born in Niagara Falls, New York,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AUQAQAAMAAJ|title=Radio Daily-Television Daily: Volume 78|page=4|date=1957|publisher=Radio Daily Corporation|via=Google Books}} Beir began his career in 1950, appearing in the television series The Philco Television Playhouse.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSLXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|title=Twilight Zone Encyclopedia|page=86|first=Steven|last=Rubin|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=November 1, 2017|isbn=978-1613738917|via=Google Books}} He also appeared on Broadway in The Terrible Swift Sword (1955).{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683807964/|title=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California - 18|work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|location=Hollywood, California|date=November 21, 1955|page=18|via=Newspapers.com}} He continued to star or co-star in films and guest-star in television programs.

TV programs on which Beir appeared included The Odd Couple, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Outer Limits, Wagon Train, The Time Tunnel, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones, Man From Atlantis, Dallas and The Twilight Zone.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRQbAQAAIAAJ|title=Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies|page=53|first=Jack|last=Ward|publisher=McFarland|date=1993|isbn=9780899508078|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq-uf3wB-TcC&pg=PA246|title=Irwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants|page=246|first=Jon|last=Abbott|date=June 14, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786486625|via=Google Books}} He also starred and co-starred in films, such as The Violators, Assassination, Fort Courageous, Three Dollars of Lead, M.M.M. 83{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VJCaXXANA0C|title=Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973|page=40|date=2002|publisher=McFarland|first1=Tom|last1=Lisanti|first2=Louis|last2=Paul|isbn=9780786411948|via=Google Books}} and The Organization.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/12873%7C54791/Fred-Beir/#overview|title=Fred Beir|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=August 22, 2021}} Beir's last screen appearance was in the TV series Lou Grant in 1980.

Beir died on June 3, 1980, of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 52.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|page=53|first=Scott|last=Wilson|publisher=McFarland|date=August 19, 2016|isbn=978-1476625997|via=Google Books}} He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

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• [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/fred_beir/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]

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