
Don 'Red' Barry
- Highest Rated: Seven Men From Now (1956)
- Lowest Rated: Orca - The Killer Whale (1977)
- Birthday: Jan 11, 1912
- Birthplace: Not Available
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A football star in his high school and college days, Donald Barry forsook an advertising career in favor of a stage acting job with a stock company. This barnstorming work led to movie bit parts, the first of which was in RKO's Night Waitress (1936). Barry's short stature, athletic build and pugnacious facial features made him a natural for bad guy parts in Westerns, but he was lucky enough to star in the 1940 Republic serial The Adventures of Red Ryder; this and subsequent appearance as "Lone Ranger" clone Red Ryder earned the actor the permanent sobriquet Donald "Red" Barry. Republic promoted the actor to bigger-budget features in the 1940s, casting him in the sort of roles James Cagney might have played had the studio been able to afford Cagney. Barry produced as well as starred in a number of Westerns, but this venture ultimately failed, and the actor, whose private life was tempestuous in the best of times, was consigned to supporting roles before the 1950s were over. By the late 1960s, Barry was compelled to publicly entreat his fans to contribute one dollar apiece for a new series of Westerns. Saving the actor from further self-humiliation were such Barry aficionados as actor Burt Reynolds and director Don Siegel, who saw to it that Don was cast in prominent supporting roles during the 1970s, notably a telling role in Hustle (1976). In 1980, Don "Red" Barry killed himself -- a sad end to an erratic life and career.
Highest Rated Movies
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Seven Men From Now
100% -
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Junior Bonner
91% -
Dead End
90%
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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40% | Back Roads | Pete | — | 1981 |
Doctor Dracula | Actor | — | 1980 | |
One Man Jury | Murphy | — | 1978 | |
69% | Hooper | Sheriff | — | 1978 |
11% | The Swarm | Pete Harris | — | 1978 |
Hot Lead and Cold Feet | Bartender | — | 1978 | |
Buckstone County Prison | Actor | — | 1978 | |
10% | Orca - The Killer Whale | Dock Worker | — | 1977 |
Doctor Dracula | Actor | — | 1977 | |
40% | From Noon Till Three | Outlaw Leader | — | 1976 |
63% | Hustle | Airport Bartender | — | 1975 |
Boss Nigger (The Black Bounty Killer) | Actor | — | 1975 | |
Blazing Stewardesses | Actor | — | 1975 | |
Whiffs | Post | — | 1975 | |
91% | Junior Bonner | Homer Rutledge | — | 1972 |
67% | Johnny Got His Gun | Jody Simmons | — | 1971 |
68% | Rio Lobo | Feeny - Bartender | — | 1971 |
Dirty Dingus Magee | Shotgun | — | 1970 | |
Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Rusty | — | 1970 | |
Hunters Are for Killing | Actor | — | 1970 | |
40% | Shalako | Buffalo | — | 1968 |
20% | Bandolero | Jack Hawkins | — | 1968 |
The Shakiest Gun in the West | Rev. Zachary Grant | — | 1968 | |
Fort Utah | Harris | — | 1967 | |
Hostile Guns | Johnson | — | 1967 | |
Alvarez Kelly | Lt. Farrow | — | 1966 | |
Apache Uprising | Henry Belden | — | 1966 | |
Fort Courageous | Capt. Howard | — | 1965 | |
Convict Stage | Marshal Karnin | — | 1965 | |
Law of the Lawless | Tuffy | — | 1964 | |
29% | The Carpetbaggers | Sound Man | — | 1964 |
Iron Angel | Reb | — | 1964 | |
Twilight of Honor | Judson Elliot | — | 1963 | |
Walk on the Wild Side | Dockery | — | 1962 | |
50% | The Errand Boy | Actor | — | 1961 |
50% | Ocean's 11 | McCoy | — | 1960 |
Walk like a Dragon | Cabot | — | 1960 | |
Warlock | Edward Calhoun | — | 1959 | |
Born Reckless | Oakie | — | 1959 | |
China Doll | Hal Foster | — | 1958 | |
Frankenstein - 1970 | Douglas Row | — | 1958 | |
Buffalo Gun | Murdock | — | 1958 | |
Gun Duel in Durango | Larry | — | 1957 | |
100% | Seven Men From Now | Clete | — | 1956 |
I'll Cry Tomorrow | Jerry | — | 1955 | |
Jesse James' Women | Jesse James Director | — | 1954 | |
Gunfire | Fenton/Frank James | — | 1950 | |
I Shot Billy the Kid | William H. Bonney / Billy The Kid | — | 1950 | |
Train to Tombstone | Len Howard | — | 1950 | |
The Dalton Gang | Marshal Larry West | — | 1949 | |
Ringside | Mike O'Hara / King Cobra | — | 1949 | |
Out California Way | Don Barry | — | 1946 | |
The Last Crooked Mile | Tom Dwyer | — | 1946 | |
Bells of Rosarita | Don Barry | — | 1945 | |
The Purple Heart | Lt. Peter Vincent | — | 1944 | |
The Sombrero Kid | Jerry Holden | — | 1942 | |
Remember Pearl Harbor | Steve "Lucky" Smith | — | 1942 | |
Adventures of Red Ryder | Red Ryder | — | 1940 | |
Days of Jesse James | Jesse James | — | 1939 | |
The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Collins | — | 1939 | |
Wyoming Outlaw | Will Parker | — | 1939 | |
There's That Woman Again | Bellboy | — | 1939 | |
100% | Only Angels Have Wings | Tex Gordon | — | 1939 |
Calling Dr. Kildare | Collins | — | 1939 | |
Panama Patrol | Lt. Loring | — | 1939 | |
Saga of Death Valley | Jerry | — | 1939 | |
Young Dr. Kildare | Collins | — | 1938 | |
Letter of Introduction | Man at Party | — | 1938 | |
The Crowd Roars | Pete Mariola | — | 1938 | |
Sinners in Paradise | Jessup | — | 1938 | |
The Duke of West Point | Cadet Grady | — | 1938 | |
The Last Gangster | Billy Ernst | — | 1937 | |
90% | Dead End | Interne | — | 1937 |
Beloved Enemy | Mike - I.R.A. Patriot (uncredited) | — | 1937 | |
The Woman I Love | Michel | — | 1937 | |
Navy Blue and Gold | Fellow Back | — | 1937 | |
This Day and Age | Young Man | — | 1933 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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Charlie's Angels
1976-1981
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Silvers |
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CHiPs
1977-1983
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Ballard Frank Taylor |
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Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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Charlie Turner |
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Little House on the Prairie
1974-1984
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Larrabee Jud Larabee Rufe Parsons |
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The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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Shorty McCall |
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The Bionic Woman
1976-1978
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Woody |
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The Waltons
1972-1981
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Deputy Sheriff |
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Ironside
1967-1975
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Paul Farrell Prudy Harry Wilke Lt. Pierce Capt. Dennis Barnes |
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93% |
Batman
1966-1968
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Grand Vizier |
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Bonanza
1959-1973
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Bud Temple |
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83% |
The Munsters
1964-1966
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Ted |
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Perry Mason
1957-1966
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Red Doyle |
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The Fugitive
1963-1967
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Checker |
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Maverick
1957-1962
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Willie Salron Smith Fred Leslie Dishonest Abe |
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