[2] At the age of 11, he worked on the radio show Portia Faces Life and did commercials on The O'Neills and Against the Storm.

He also developed a talent for playing strong character roles in war films, such as Halls of Montezuma (1950), Sam Fuller's Fixed Bayonets!

Homeier played a man sought for a crime of which he is innocent, but who has no faith in the legal system's ability to provide justice.

Homeier appeared as Kading in an episode of the NBC western Jefferson Drum ("The Post", 1958), starring Jeff Richards.

[7] Homeier was also cast as “Wichita Kid” in a Rawhide episode airing November 23, 1965, entitled “Brush War at Buford”.

He guest-starred on Star Trek: The Original Series in two episodes: as the Nazi-like character Melakon in "Patterns of Force" (1968) and as Dr. Rota Sevrin in "The Way to Eden" (1969).

In 1969, he was a guest star on the TV show Mannix, in the third-season episode called "A Sleep in the Deep".

[2] Homeier died on June 25, 2017, at the age of 86 from spinal myelopathy at his home in Indian Wells, California.

He is survived by his wife, Della, and his sons Peter and Michael from his first marriage (1951–1962) to Nancy Van Noorden Field.