Biography

John Boyer was born on October 16, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Ski Party (1965) and Gunsmoke (1955). He was married to Dina Droegkamp and Sharon Farrell. He died on May 12, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

Father of Chance Boyer and Madelaine Boyer.

According to a May 2007 article in a Utah newspaper, Boyer was a potential witness in a 40-year-old lawsuit brought by Melvin Dummar, who claims a one-sixteenth share of Howard Hughes' fortune, based on a handwritten will that Hughes allegedly gave Dummar after he picked up Hughes in the Nevada desert, which was the basis for the film Melvin and Howard (1980).

John Forthmann Boyer is a great-grandson and one of about a dozen heirs of Rosanna Forthmann, a Los Angeles laundry soap heiress who died in 1937. Her company sponsored the popular 1940s-1950s radio and television show Queen for a Day, which awarded prizes to needy housewives who routinely sobbed while describing their plights. He grew up in Malibu, California and learned to play polo.