RICHARD TYLER: Problem Child, Successful Adult

Films of the Golden Age
Issue Number 100
Spring 2020

“I’m very proud of what I was able to accomplish … I look back now with great fondness, and not with the hurt, regret or bitterness that others in my circumstances later developed.”

Slight (5’8″), athletic, ginger-haired child actor RICHARD TYLER (1932- ) began on the stage at age 8 and appeared on Broadway before moving to films. He was equally adept at playing cute rascals (“boxing” with nun Ingrid Bergman in THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S (1945)) and bullies (Margaret O’Brien’s young nemesis in TENTH STREET ANGEL (1946)). Adjusting moderately well to teen roles, he saw the light ever dimming by the time he reached adulthood. He wisely closed the book on acting and focused on bodybuilding (later a writer/editor for muscle magazines) and, more successfully, opened up a long-term L.A. chiropractic business to the stars (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Burt Reynolds).

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