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person_profile-Don Barry

Don Barry Died at age: 68

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Don Barry

Date of Birth:

Jan 11, 1912

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jul 17, 1980

Biography of

Don Barry

    Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. After four years of playing villains and henchmen at various studios, Barry got the role that changed his image: Red Ryder in the Republic Pictures serial Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). Although he had appeared in westerns for two years or so, this was the one that kept him there. He acquired the nickname "Red" from his association with the Red Ryder character. After the success of "Red Ryder" Barry starred in a string of westerns for Republic. Studio chief Herbert J. Yates got the idea that Barry could be Republic's version of James Cagney, as he was short and had the same scrappy, feisty nature that Cagney had. Unfortunately, while Barry could in fact be a good actor when he wanted to be -- as he showed in the World War II drama The Purple Heart (1944) -- his "feistiness", combative nature and oversized ego caused him to alienate many of the casts and crews he worked with at Republic (ace serial director William Witney detested him, calling him "the midget", and director John English worked with him once and refused to ever work with him again). Barry made a series of westerns at Republic throughout the 1940s, but by 1950 his career had pretty much come to a halt, and he was reduced to making cheaper and cheaper pictures for bottom-of-the-barrel companies like Lippert and Screen Guild. Barry continued to work and still appeared in westerns up through the 1970s, but they were often in small supporting roles, sometimes unbilled. In 1980 he committed suicide by shooting himself.

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Don Barry

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Filmography of

Don Barry

Found 137 Movies in total

Back Roads

Pete ( Actor )

... 1981

Goldie and the Boxer

Radio Announcer ( Actor )

... 1979

Undercover with the KKK

Ben Wright ( Actor )

... 1979

A Cry For Justice

Virgil Hall ( Actor )

... 1979

Donovan's Kid

Sheriff at Stagecoach ( Actor )

... 1979

The Crash of Flight 401

Helicopter Pilot ( Actor )

... 1978

Hooper

Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1978

The Swarm

Pete Harris ( Actor )

... 1978

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Bartender ( Actor )

... 1978

Buckstone County Prison

Warden Coley ( Actor )

... 1978

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Devery's Foreman ( Actor )

... 1978

Doctor Dracula

Elliot (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1978

Orca

Dock Worker ( Actor )

... 1977

From Noon Till Three

Red Roxy ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

Hustle

Airport Bartender ( Actor )

... 1975

Whiffs

Sgt. Post ( Actor )

... 1975

Boss Nigger

(as Don Red Barry) ( Actor )

... 1975

Blazing Stewardesses

Mike Trask ( Actor )

... 1975

Starsky & Hutch

Doctor in Morgue ( Actor )

... 1975

Punch and Jody

Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz ( Actor )

... 1974

Partners in Crime

Bartender ( Actor )

... 1973

Incident on a Dark Street

Miles Henderson ( Actor )

... 1973

Junior Bonner

Homer Rutledge ( Actor )

... 1972

The Eyes of Charles Sand

Trainer ( Actor )

... 1972

Johnny Got His Gun

Jody Simmons ( Actor )

... 1971

One More Train to Rob

Charlie ( Actor )

... 1971

Rio Lobo

Feeny - Bartender (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1970

Hunters Are for Killing

Hank Phillips ( Actor )

... 1970

Shalako

Buffalo ( Actor )

... 1968

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Rev. Zachary Gant ( Actor )

... 1968

Bandolero!

Jack Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1968

Fort Utah

Harris ( Actor )

... 1967

Hostile Guns

Ed Johnson ( Actor )

... 1967

Red Tomahawk

Bly ( Actor )

... 1967

Alvarez Kelly

Lt. Farrow ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

Apache Uprising

Henry Belden ( Actor )

... 1965

Town Tamer

Tex ( Actor )

... 1965

Fort Courageous

Captain Harvey ( Actor )

... 1965

War Party

Sgt. Chaney ( Actor )

... 1965

Convict Stage

Marshal Jethro Karnin ( Actor )

Writer

... 1965

Law of the Lawless

Red ( Actor )

... 1964

Iron Angel

Reb ( Actor )

... 1964

Twilight of Honor

Judson Elliot ( Actor )

... 1963

Walk on the Wild Side

Dockery ( Actor )

... 1962

Buffalo Gun

Murdock ( Actor )

... 1961

Ocean's Eleven

McCoy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1960

Walk Like a Dragon

Cabot ( Actor )

... 1960

The Big Operator

Detective Sergeant ( Actor )

... 1959

Warlock

Edward Calhoun (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1959

The Last Mile

Drake (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1959

Born Reckless

Bill Okie ( Actor )

... 1958

Frankenstein 1970

Douglas Row ( Actor )

... 1958

China Doll

MSgt. Hal Foster ( Actor )

... 1958

Gun Duel In Durango

Larry ( Actor )

... 1957

7 Men from Now

Clete ( Actor )

... 1956

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Jerry ( Actor )

... 1955

... 1955

Jesse James' Women

Jesse James ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1954

Untamed Heiress

'Spider' Mike Lawrence (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1954

Border Rangers

Bob Standish posing as the Rio Kid (as Don Barry) ( Actor )

... 1950

Train To Tombstone

Len Howard (as Don Barry) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1950

Gunfire

Frank James / Bat Fenton (as Don Barry) ( Actor )

... 1950

I Shot Billy the Kid

William H. Bonney / Billy the Kid (as Don Barry) ( Actor )

... 1950

Red Desert

Pecos Jones (as Don Barry) ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 1949

Tough Assignment

Dan Reilly ( Actor )

... 1949

Square Dance Jubilee

Don Blake ( Actor )

... 1949

The Dalton Gang

Larry West ( Actor )

... 1949

Ringside

Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra" ( Actor )

... 1949

Lightnin' in the Forest

Stan Martin ( Actor )

... 1948

Madonna of the Desert

Tony French (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1948

Slippy McGee

Slippy McGee ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1946

The Last Crooked Mile

Tom Dwyer ( Actor )

... 1946

The Chicago Kid

Joe Ferrill ( Actor )

... 1945

Bells of Rosarita

Don Barry ( Actor )

... 1945

My Buddy

Eddie Ballinger (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1944

Outlaws of Santa Fe

Bob Conroy ( Actor )

... 1944

The Purple Heart

Lt. Peter Vincent (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1944

California Joe

Joe Weldon ( Actor )

... 1943

Canyon City

Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid ( Actor )

... 1943

The Man from the Rio Grande

Lee Grant ( Actor )

... 1943

The West Side Kid

Johnny April (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1943

Black Hills Express

Lon Walker ( Actor )

... 1943

Fugitive from Sonora

Parson Dave Winters / Ted Winters aka Keeno Phillips ( Actor )

... 1943

Days of Old Cheyenne

Clint Ross ( Actor )

... 1943

Carson City Cyclone

Gilbert Phalen ( Actor )

... 1943

Dead Man's Gulch

Tennessee Colby ( Actor )

... 1943

The Sundown Kid

Red Tracy ( Actor )

... 1942

The Traitor Within

Sam Starr (as Donald M. Barry) ( Actor )

... 1942

Outlaws of Pine Ridge

Chips Barrett ( Actor )

... 1942

The Sombrero Kid

Jerry Holden ( Actor )

... 1942

The Cyclone Kid

Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson ( Actor )

... 1942

Jesse James, Jr.

Johnny Barrett ( Actor )

... 1942

Stagecoach Express

Dave Gregory ( Actor )

... 1942

Arizona Terrors

Jim Bradley ( Actor )

... 1942

Remember Pearl Harbor

Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith ( Actor )

... 1942

A Missouri Outlaw

Cliff Dixon ( Actor )

... 1941

Death Valley Outlaws

Johnny Edwards ( Actor )

... 1941

Kansas Cyclone

Jim Randall ( Actor )

... 1941

Desert Bandit

Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger ( Actor )

... 1941

The Apache Kid

Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid ( Actor )

... 1941

Two Gun Sheriff

Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon ( Actor )

... 1941

The Phantom Cowboy

Jim Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1941

Wyoming Wildcat

Bill Gannon ( Actor )

... 1941

Texas Terrors

Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills ( Actor )

... 1940

Frontier Vengeance

Jim Sanders ( Actor )

... 1940

The Tulsa Kid

Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid ( Actor )

... 1940

Sailor's Lady

Second Paymaster ( Actor )

... 1940

One Man's Law

Jack Summers ( Actor )

... 1940

Adventures of Red Ryder

Red Ryder ( Actor )

... 1940

Ghost Valley Raiders

Tim Brandon aka The Tolusa Kid (as Donald Barry) ( Actor )

... 1940

Days of Jesse James

Jesse James ( Actor )

... 1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Collins - Intern (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Saga of Death Valley

Jerry ( Actor )

... 1939

Calling All Marines

'Blackie' Cross ( Actor )

... 1939

Wyoming Outlaw

Will Parker ( Actor )

... 1939

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Curly Parsons ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

Collins ( Actor )

... 1939

Panama Patrol

Loring ( Actor )

... 1939

The Duke of West Point

Grady ( Actor )

... 1938

Young Dr. Kildare

Dr. Collins (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

The Crowd Roars

Pete Mariola ( Actor )

... 1938

Sinners in Paradise

Jessup ( Actor )

... 1938

Saleslady

Babcock ( Actor )

... 1938

Navy Blue and Gold

Mason (Southern Institute football player) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Dead End

Dr. Flynn, Intern (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

The Woman I Love

Michel ( Actor )

... 1937

When's Your Birthday?

Marty - Gunman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Beloved Enemy

Mike, I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Night Waitress

Mario Rigo ( Actor )

... 1936

Flying Down to Rio

Dancer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933