Barry Primus

Highest Rated: 100% Heartland (1979)
Lowest Rated: 10% The Longest Week (2014)
Birthday: Feb 16, 1938
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

New Yorker Barry Primus is primarily an actor, but has also doubled and tripled as writer and director. Primus worked on stage for the first decade of his career, then made his screen bow in the Manhattan-filmed The Brotherhood (1968). Additional films include Boxcar Bertha (1972), Heartland (1979) Night Games (1980) and Guilty by Suspicion (1991). Primus also had a continuing role on the TV series Cagney and Lacey (1982-88) as Cagney's(Sharon Gless) erstwhile boyfriend Sgt. Dory McKenna, whose drug problem compromised his value as a cop. After working as director Mark Rydell's assistant on The Rose (1981) Barry Primus has increased his behind-the-camera activities; in 1992, Primus directed his first theatrical feature, the "inside" Hollywood comedy/drama Mistress.

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Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
80%	Bad Hurt	Marty	—	2016
60%	Joy	Rudy's Attorney	$42.6M	2015
10%	The Longest Week	Bernard the Chauffer	—	2014
31%	Grudge Match	Joey the Bartender	$14.9M	2013
92%	American Hustle	Tellegio's Consigliere	$99.2M	2013
No Score Yet	Untitled Ice Cube/David O. Russell Project	Tellegio's Consigliere	—	2013
No Score Yet	The Legend	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Dinner Party	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Jackson	Donald	—	2008
18%	Righteous Kill	Prosky	$40M	2008
No Score Yet	A Relationship in Four Days	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Big Guns	Executive Producer Will Fox	—	2006
32%	When Will I Be Loved	Victor	—	2004
67%	Frankie and Johnny Are Married	Himself	—	2004
No Score Yet	Cross Bronx	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Break a Leg	Ira Goldstein	—	2003
47%	Life as a House	Tom	$15.5M	2001
No Score Yet	James Dean	Nicholas Ray	—	2001
32%	15 Minutes	Cab Driver	$24.2M	2001
No Score Yet	Avalanche	Mark Elliott	—	1999
No Score Yet	Gold Coast	Ed Grossi	—	1997
No Score Yet	Crime of the Century	Ellis Parker	—	1996
No Score Yet	Flipping	Joey	—	1996
No Score Yet	Trade-Off	Det. Gold	—	1995
No Score Yet	T-Force	Producer	—	1995
No Score Yet	Welcome to Paradise	Frank Blair	—	1994
57%	Night and the City	Tommy Tessler	—	1992
72%	Mistress	Screenwriter Director	—	1991
No Score Yet	Denial	Jay	—	1991
65%	Guilty by Suspicion	Bert Alan	—	1991
36%	Desperate Hours	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	Torn Apart	Arie Arnon	—	1989
No Score Yet	Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death	Ford Maddox	—	1989
40%	Big Business	Michael	—	1988
No Score Yet	Talking Walls	Prof. Hirsh	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Stranger	Sergeant Drake	—	1987
45%	SpaceCamp (Space Camp)	Brennan	—	1986
No Score Yet	Jake Speed	Lawrence	—	1986
81%	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	Lou Waltzberg	—	1986
No Score Yet	Brotherly Love	Detective Trelska	—	1985
No Score Yet	The River	Roy	—	1984
No Score Yet	I Want to Live!	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Shooting	Actor	—	1982
No Score Yet	Portrait of a Showgirl	Actor	—	1982
80%	Absence Of Malice	Waddell	—	1981
No Score Yet	Macbeth	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	Night Games	Jason St. John	—	1980
76%	The Rose	Dennis	—	1979
100%	Heartland	Jack	—	1979
58%	New York, New York	Paul Wilson	—	1977
No Score Yet	Autopsy (Macchie solari)	Actor	—	1977
No Score Yet	The Dion Brothers (The Gravy Train)	Actor	—	1974
48%	Boxcar Bertha	Rake Brown	—	1972
60%	Von Richthofen and Brown	Hermann Goering	—	1971
No Score Yet	Puzzle of a Downfall Child	Aaron Reinhardt	—	1970
75%	The Brotherhood	Vido	—	1968

TV

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
86%	Boston Legal 2004-2008	Prof. Jeffrey Benoit	2007
62%	Arli$$ 1996-2002	Benny	2002
No Score Yet	The Practice 1997-2004	Goodman	1998
82%	Picket Fences 1992-1996	Rabbi Levin	1994
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Gary Silver Broadway Producer	1993
74%	The X-Files 1993-2018	Robert Dorland	1993
No Score Yet	Miami Vice 1984-1990	Daly	1988
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Det. Berger	1986
No Score Yet	The Equalizer 1985-1989	Walt	1986
No Score Yet	Cagney & Lacey 1982-1988	Sgt. Dory McKenna	1985 1984 1983 1982

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