Richard Wyler

Richard Wyler was a British actor and writer, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, who began his career in London theater after the Second World War, and he published his first novel at seventeen. Signed by MGM, he made his film debut in a supporting part in The Three Musketeers (1948) and played John Brooke in Little Women (1949). Through the 1940s and 1950s he appeared in Hollywood pictures such as The Strange Door (1951), King of the Khyber Rifles, Charge of the Lancers, The Iron Glove and Target Zero. Around 1960 he returned to Britain and Europe, took the name Richard Wyler, and appeared in television series such as Man from Interpol, along with European adventure and western films including The Bounty Killer and The Girl from Rio (1969). In the 1970s he acted under his birth name, Richard Stapley, in Connecting Rooms and Frenzy, and later focused on writing, publishing the novel Naked Legacy in 2004.