Barry Primus
Highest Rated: 100% Heartland (1979)
Lowest Rated: 11% 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.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

CREDIT
80% Bad Hurt Marty — 2016
60% Joy Rudy's Attorney $42.6M 2015
11% 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 Autopsy Actor — 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 Director Screenwriter — 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
40% 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
83% Absence Of Malice Waddell — 1981
No Score Yet Macbeth Actor — 1981
No Score Yet Night Games Jason St. John — 1980
75% The Rose Dennis — 1979
100% Heartland Jack — 1979
59% 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

CREDIT
87% Boston Legal
2004-2008
Prof. Jeffrey Benoit
  • 2007
No Score Yet Arli$$
1996-2002
Benny
  • 2002
No Score Yet The Practice
1997-2004
Goodman
  • 1998
No Score Yet Picket Fences
1992-1996
Rabbi Levin
  • 1994
No Score Yet Law & Order
1990-2010
Gary Silver Broadway Producer
  • 1993
75% 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

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