Richard Beymer
George Richard Beymer Jr. (born February 20, 1938) is an American actor, filmmaker and visual artist. After making his feature acting debut in Vittorio De Sica's Stazione Termini (1953), he rose to promience for playing the roles of Peter van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Tony in the 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story.
Through the early 60s, Beymer continued to portray lead roles in films such as Frank Tashlin's Bachelor Flat (1961), Martin Ritt's Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962), and Franklin J. Schaffner's The Stripper (1963). After shifting his focus towards filmmaking in the mid 60s, Beymer would continue to sporadically act, most notably as Ben Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017).
As a filmmaker in the late 60s, he focused on documentaries focused on the civil rights movement, before working on the experimental narrative feature The Innerview throughout the 1970s. Later documentary works include features focused on subjects such as the funeral of Transcendental Meditation creator Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch's spiritual journey to India.
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