Barry Primus
Highest Rated: 100% Heartland (1979)
Lowest Rated: 10% The Longest Week (2014)
Birthday: Feb 16, 1938
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Veteran character actor turned director who has worked extensively on stage, TV, and in over 25 feature films. Among Primus' many film acting credits are Martin Ritt's "The Brotherhood" (1968), Jerry Schatzberg's "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" (1970), Sydney Pollack's "Absence of Malice" (1981) and Martin Scorsese's "Boxcar Bertha" (1979) and "New York, New York" (1977). He also acted opposite Bette Midler in three films: "The Rose" (1979), "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986), and "Big Business" (1988). On TV, Primus appeared in "Washington Behind Closed Doors," "Paper Dolls," "The Equalizer," "Murder, She Wrote," and in a recurring role on "Cagney and Lacey."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | 86% | The Irishman | Ewing King (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Families | Frank (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 80% | 70% | Bad Hurt | Marty (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 10% | 21% | The Longest Week | Bernard the Chauffer (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 31% | 46% | Grudge Match | Joey the Bartender (Character) | $29.8M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big Guns | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 32% | 31% | When Will I Be Loved | Victor Barrie (Character) | $159.4K | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Cross Bronx | Mary Green (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Break a Leg | Ira Goldstein (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 93% | 76% | James Dean | Nicholas Ray (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 20% | 27% | Black and White | Priest (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Gold Coast | Ed Grossi (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flipping | Joey (Character) | $14.3K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Crime of the Century | Ellis Parker (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome to Paradise | Frank Blair (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trade Off | Detective Gold (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 72% | 39% | Mistress |
Director, Screenwriter |
$53.6K | 1992 |
| 57% | 30% | Night and the City | Tommy Tessler (Character) | $6.2M | 1992 |
| 65% | 55% | Guilty by Suspicion | Bert Alan (Character) | $8.4M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Torn Apart | Arie Arnon (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 44% | 69% | Big Business | Michael (Character) | $39.6M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death | Ford Maddox (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Talking Walls | Professor Hirsch (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Stranger | Sergeant Drake (Character) | $24.8K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stillwatch | Toby Wilson (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 46% | 50% | SpaceCamp | Brennan (Character) | $9.1M | 1986 |
| 20% | 46% | Jake Speed | Lawrence (Character) | $1.1M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brotherly Love | Detective Trelska (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heart of Steel | Amendola (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait of a Showgirl | Dennis Philips (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Dolls | Alan (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 81% | 63% | Absence of Malice | Waddell (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 93% | 87% | On Golden Pond | Casting | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Games | Jason St. John (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 100% | 88% | Heartland | Jack (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 75% | 81% | The Rose | Dennis (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Avalanche | Mark Elliott (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Autopsy | Father Paul Lenox (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 57% | 58% | New York, New York | Paul Wilson (Character) | $91.9K | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roger and Harry | Harry Jaworsky (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love for Ransom | Harry Jaworsky (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Autopsy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big Rose | Ed Mills (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 52% | 33% | Boxcar Bertha | Rake Brown (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 50% | 36% | Von Richthofen and Brown | Hermann Goering (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Gnossos "Paps" Pappadopoulis (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Puzzle of a Downfall Child | Aaron Reinhardt (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elvira's 10 Nights of Halloween | Ford Maddox (Character) | 2014 |
| 86% | 91% | Boston Legal | Professor Jeffrey Benoit (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 74% | 86% | The X-Files | Robert Dorlund (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Andy McBride (Guest Star) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | 21 Jump Street | Judge Warren Briggs (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| 71% | 91% | Miami Vice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey | Sgt. Dory McKenna (Character) | 1982-1988 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Equalizer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Insp. Dave Lambert (Guest Star) | 1977 |