Acting
278
Man
Jan 11, 1912
Jul 17, 1980 (68)
Houston, Texas, USA
Don 'Red' 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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1981 | Back Roads | Pete |
1980 | The Dream Merchants | Capt. Casey |
1979 | Knots Landing | Jeremiah Clemmons |
1979 | Goldie and the Boxer | Radio Announcer |
1979 | 240-Robert | |
1979 | Donovan's Kid | Sheriff at Stagecoach |
1979 | Undercover with the KKK | Ben Wright |
1979 | A Cry For Justice | Virgil Hall |
1978 | The Swarm | Pete Harris |
1978 | Hooper | Sheriff |
1978 | Hot Lead & Cold Feet | Bartender |
1978 | Doctor Dracula | Elliot (as Donald Barry) |
1978 | The Crash of Flight 401 | Helicopter Pilot |
1978 | Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid | Devery's Foreman |
1978 | Buckstone County Prison | Warden Coley |
1978 | Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys | |
1977 | Orca | Dock Worker |
1977 | CHiPs | Truck Driver |
1977 | CHiPs | Frank Taylor |
1977 | CHiPs | Marty Ballard |
1976 | The Bionic Woman | |
1976 | Charlie's Angels | Harry Silvers |
1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Charlie Turner |
1976 | From Noon Till Three | Red Roxy |
1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II | Robert Barnes |
1976 | The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West | Marshal |
1976 | Big John, Little John | |
1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) |
1975 | Starsky & Hutch | Doctor in the morgue (uncredited) |
1975 | Hustle | Airport Bartender |
1975 | Boss Nigger | (as Don Red Barry) |
1975 | Baretta | |
1975 | Blazing Stewardesses | Mike Trask |
1975 | Starsky & Hutch | Doctor in Morgue |
1975 | Whiffs | Sgt. Post |
1975 | Barbary Coast | |
1974 | Little House on the Prairie | |
1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Howie |
1974 | The Rockford Files | Shorty McCall |
1974 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | |
1974 | Police Woman | Ted |
1974 | Police Woman | Lt. Bocina |
1974 | Police Woman | Morris |
1974 | Police Woman | Captain Simmonds |
1974 | Police Woman | Capt. Red Barnes |
1974 | Police Woman | Captain Barnes |
1974 | Police Woman | Capt. Barnes |
1974 | Petrocelli | Vern |
1974 | Punch and Jody | Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz |
1973 | Police Story | |
1973 | Hawkins | Ben |
1973 | Incident on a Dark Street | Miles Henderson |
1973 | Partners in Crime | Bartender |
1972 | Junior Bonner | Homer Rutledge |
1972 | The Waltons | Deputy Sheriff |
1972 | Emergency! | Dave Grogan |
1972 | The Rookies | |
1972 | Ghost Story | First Cowboy |
1972 | Ghost Story | Charlie Durham |
1972 | The Eyes of Charles Sand | Trainer |
1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Jody Simmons |
1971 | McMillan and Wife | Sam |
1971 | Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Jenkins |
1970 | Rio Lobo | Feeny - Bartender (uncredited) |
1970 | The Immortal | |
1970 | Dan August | Ed Gurney |
1970 | The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Rusty |
1970 | Hunters Are for Killing | Hank Phillips |
1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Al Karlovic |
1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Abner Dickens |
1969 | Love, American Style | Sam |
1969 | Love, American Style | Policeman |
1968 | Bandolero! | Jack Hawkins |
1968 | Shalako | Buffalo |
1968 | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Rev. Zachary Gant |
1968 | Land of the Giants | Dr. Zoral |
1968 | Adam-12 | Charlie Bishop |
1968 | Adam-12 | Edwin M. Kale |
1968 | Adam-12 | Wino |
1968 | Adam-12 | Mr. Hobbs |
1968 | It Takes a Thief | Airline Captain (as Donald Barry) |
1968 | The Outsider | |
1967 | Ironside | Paul Farrell |
1967 | Ironside | Warrant Officer Harry Wilke |
1967 | Ironside | Walter Prudy |
1967 | Ironside | Lt. Tom Pierce |
1967 | Ironside | Capt. Dennis Barnes |
1967 | Mannix | Mr. Barlow |
1967 | Dragnet | James Fremont |
1967 | Cimarron Strip | |
1967 | Hostile Guns | Ed Johnson |
1967 | Fort Utah | Harris |
1967 | Red Tomahawk | Bly |
1967 | Hondo | |
1966 | Batman | The Grand Vizier |
1966 | Batman | Tarantula |
1966 | Alvarez Kelly | Lt. Farrow |
1966 | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | |
1966 | The Magnificent Stranger | Grist |
1966 | T.H.E. Cat | Morgan |
1966 | T.H.E. Cat | Stoddard |
1965 | The Wild Wild West | Farnsworth |
1965 | The Wild Wild West | Rainey |
1965 | F Troop | Col. Donnely |
1965 | The F.B.I. | Davy Harrods |
1965 | Laredo | Sam Dixie |
1965 | Apache Uprising | Henry Belden |
1965 | Town Tamer | Tex |
1965 | Fort Courageous | Captain Harvey |
1965 | Convict Stage | Marshal Jethro Karnin |
1965 | The Legend of Jesse James | Daniels |
1965 | War Party | Sgt. Chaney |
1964 | The Munsters | Ted |
1964 | Daniel Boone | Amos Brown |
1964 | Law of the Lawless | Red |
1964 | Iron Angel | Reb |
1964 | Broadside | Colonel Stark |
1964 | Mickey | |
1963 | The Fugitive | The Checker |
1963 | Twilight of Honor | Judson Elliot |
1963 | Mr. Novak | Anthony Gallo |
1963 | Arrest and Trial | Snyder |
1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Dockery |
1962 | The Virginian | Shorty Downs |
1962 | The Virginian | Dugan |
1962 | The Virginian | John Slaughter |
1962 | The Virginian | Man |
1962 | The Virginian | Charles Coulter |
1962 | The Virginian | Carstairs |
1962 | The Virginian | Hutton |
1962 | The Virginian | Jake |
1962 | McHale's Navy | Capt. Kittridge |
1962 | Sam Benedict | |
1961 | Buffalo Gun | Murdock |
1960 | Ocean's Eleven | McCoy (uncredited) |
1960 | Checkmate | Kyle Horgan |
1960 | Walk Like a Dragon | Cabot |
1960 | Surfside 6 | Lt. Snedigar |
1960 | The Roaring 20's | |
1959 | Bonanza | Bud Claggett |
1959 | Bonanza | Temple |
1959 | Warlock | Edward Calhoun (uncredited) |
1959 | Rawhide | Grut |
1959 | Laramie | |
1959 | The Last Mile | Drake (as Donald Barry) |
1959 | The Big Operator | Detective Sergeant |
1959 | Hawaiian Eye | Roy Briggs |
1959 | Hawaiian Eye | Harry Cannon |
1959 | The Deputy | Utah |
1959 | Bourbon Street Beat | |
1958 | Frankenstein 1970 | Douglas Row |
1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Rock |
1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Shorty Adams |
1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Barnaby Allson |
1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Frank Sully |
1958 | Peter Gunn | |
1958 | Born Reckless | Bill Okie |
1958 | Bat Masterson | Luke Short |
1958 | Lawman | Shorty - Assassin |
1958 | Lawman | Jim Gaylord |
1958 | Lawman | Dusty McCade |
1958 | Lawman | Jess Schaeffer |
1958 | Bronco | |
1958 | China Doll | MSgt. Hal Foster |
1957 | Perry Mason | Red Doyle |
1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Tom Goodfellow |
1957 | Maverick | Sheriff |
1957 | Maverick | Fred Leslie |
1957 | Maverick | Willie Saffron |
1957 | Maverick | Dishonest Abe |
1957 | Maverick | Smith |
1957 | Gun Duel In Durango | Larry |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Tanner |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Arkansas |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Arkansas Ferguson |
1956 | 7 Men from Now | Clete |
1955 | Gunsmoke | McIver |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Dobson |
1955 | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Jerry |
1955 | Cheyenne | Shorty Jones |
1955 | The Phil Silvers Show | Capt. Carter (uncredited) |
1955 | Sergeant Preston of the Yukon | |
1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Soldier |
1955 | The Twinkle In God's Eye | Dawson |
1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Sheriff (uncredited) |
1954 | Jesse James' Women | Jesse James |
1954 | Untamed Heiress | 'Spider' Mike Lawrence (as Donald Barry) |
1954 | Public Defender | Milo Martin |
1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Clerk |
1951 | Dragnet | Parker Cleaver |
1951 | Dragnet | Mike Armstrong |
1950 | I Shot Billy the Kid | William H. Bonney / Billy the Kid (as Don Barry) |
1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Andy |
1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Martin |
1950 | Gunfire | Frank James / Bat Fenton |
1950 | Train To Tombstone | Len Howard |
1950 | Border Rangers | Bob Standish posing as the Rio Kid (as Don Barry) |
1949 | Ringside | Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra" |
1949 | Tough Assignment | Dan Reilly |
1949 | The Dalton Gang | Larry West |
1949 | Square Dance Jubilee | Don Blake |
1949 | Red Desert | Pecos Jones |
1948 | Lightnin' in the Forest | Stan Martin |
1948 | Train to Alcatraz | Doug Forbes (as Donald Barry) |
1948 | Madonna of the Desert | Tony French (as Donald Barry) |
1948 | Slippy McGee | Slippy McGee |
1947 | That's My Gal | Benny Novak |
1946 | The Last Crooked Mile | Tom Dwyer |
1946 | The Plainsman and the Lady | Feisty |
1945 | Bells of Rosarita | Don Barry |
1945 | The Chicago Kid | Joe Ferrill |
1944 | The Purple Heart | Lt. Peter Vincent |
1944 | My Buddy | Eddie Ballinger (as Donald Barry) |
1944 | Outlaws of Santa Fe | Bob Conroy |
1943 | Black Hills Express | Lon Walker |
1943 | Carson City Cyclone | Gilbert Phalen |
1943 | California Joe | Joe Weldon |
1943 | Dead Man's Gulch | Tennessee Colby |
1943 | Canyon City | Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid |
1943 | Days of Old Cheyenne | Clint Ross |
1943 | Fugitive from Sonora | Parson Dave Winters / Ted Winters aka Keeno Phillips |
1943 | The Man from the Rio Grande | Lee Grant |
1943 | The West Side Kid | Johnny April (as Donald Barry) |
1942 | Stagecoach Express | Dave Gregory |
1942 | Remember Pearl Harbor | Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith |
1942 | Jesse James, Jr. | Johnny Barrett |
1942 | The Cyclone Kid | Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson |
1942 | The Sombrero Kid | Jerry Holden |
1942 | Arizona Terrors | Jim Bradley |
1942 | The Traitor Within | Sam Starr (as Donald M. Barry) |
1942 | Outlaws of Pine Ridge | Chips Barrett |
1942 | The Sundown Kid | Red Tracy |
1941 | The Phantom Cowboy | Jim Lawrence |
1941 | Two Gun Sheriff | Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon |
1941 | Death Valley Outlaws | Johnny Edwards |
1941 | A Missouri Outlaw | Cliff Dixon |
1941 | The Apache Kid | Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid |
1941 | Wyoming Wildcat | Bill Gannon |
1941 | Desert Bandit | Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger |
1941 | Kansas Cyclone | Jim Randall |
1940 | Jack Pot | Bryan (uncredited) |
1940 | Adventures of Red Ryder | Red Ryder |
1940 | Texas Terrors | Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills |
1940 | Ghost Valley Raiders | Tim Brandon aka The Tolusa Kid (as Donald Barry) |
1940 | The Tulsa Kid | Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid |
1940 | Sailor's Lady | Second Paymaster |
1940 | One Man's Law | Jack Summers |
1940 | Frontier Vengeance | Jim Sanders |
1939 | Only Angels Have Wings | Tex |
1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Collins - Intern (uncredited) |
1939 | Wyoming Outlaw | Will Parker |
1939 | Calling Dr. Kildare | Collins |
1939 | Days of Jesse James | Jesse James |
1939 | Saga of Death Valley | Jerry |
1939 | S.O.S Tidal Wave | Curly Parsons |
1939 | Panama Patrol | Loring |
1939 | Calling All Marines | 'Blackie' Cross |
1938 | Sinners in Paradise | Jessup |
1938 | Young Dr. Kildare | Dr. Collins (uncredited) |
1938 | The Crowd Roars | Pete Mariola |
1938 | The Duke of West Point | Grady |
1938 | Think It Over | Henchman |
1938 | Saleslady | Babcock |
1937 | Dead End | Dr. Flynn, Intern (Uncredited) |
1937 | Navy Blue and Gold | Mason (Southern Institute football player) (uncredited) |
1937 | When's Your Birthday? | Marty - Gunman (uncredited) |
1937 | The Woman I Love | Michel |
1936 | Beloved Enemy | Mike, I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited) |
1936 | Night Waitress | Mario Rigo |
1934 | Bridal Bail | Movie Usher |
1933 | Flying Down to Rio | Dancer (uncredited) |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1965 | Convict Stage | Writer |
1954 | Jesse James' Women | Producer |
1954 | Jesse James' Women | Director |
1954 | Jesse James' Women | Screenplay |
1950 | Train To Tombstone | Story |
1949 | Red Light | Story |
1949 | Red Desert | Executive Producer |