Don 'Red' Barry
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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.
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Boss Nigger (1975)
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Ocean's Eleven (1960)
as McCoy (uncredited)
Orca (1977)
as Dock Worker
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
as Dancer (uncredited)
Rio Lobo (1970)
as Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)
Hooper (1978)
as Sheriff
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
as Jody Simmons
Bandolero! (1968)
as Jack Hawkins
Hot Lead & Cold Feet (1978)
as Bartender
From Noon Till Three (1976)
as Red Roxy
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
as Tex
7 Men from Now (1956)
as Clete
The Swarm (1978)
as Pete Harris
Shalako (1968)
as Buffalo
Warlock (1959)
as Edward Calhoun (uncredited)
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
as Lt. Farrow
Junior Bonner (1972)
as Homer Rutledge
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
as Dockery
One More Train to Rob (1971)
as Charlie
Law of the Lawless (1964)
as Red
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
as Jerry
Hustle (1975)
as Airport Bartender
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West (1976)
as Marshal
Starsky & Hutch (1975)
as Doctor in Morgue
The Crash of Flight 401 (1978)
as Helicopter Pilot
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
as Rev. Zachary Gant
Back Roads (1981)
as Pete
Incident on a Dark Street (1973)
as Miles Henderson
Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
as Cabot
Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
as Mason (Southern Institute football player) (uncredited)
Undercover with the KKK (1979)
as Ben Wright
Night Waitress (1936)
as Mario Rigo
Gun Duel in Durango (1957)
as Larry
Jack Pot (1940)
as Bryan (uncredited)
The One Man Jury (1978)
as Sgt. Murphy
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Collins (uncredited)
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978)
as Devery's Foreman
A Cry for Justice (1979)
as Virgil Hall
Dead End (1937)
as Dr. Flynn, Intern (uncredited)
Town Tamer (1965)
as Tex
The Twinkle In God's Eye (1955)
as Dawson
The West Side Kid (1943)
as Johnny April
The Last Mile (1959)
as Drake
The Woman I Love (1937)
as Michel
Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
as Hank Phillips
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)
as Rusty
Days of Jesse James (1939)
as Jesse James
Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
as Red Ryder
S.O.S Tidal Wave (1939)
as Curly Parsons
The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972)
as Trainer
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
as Douglas Row
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Collins
Madonna of the Desert (1948)
as Tony French
One Man's Law (1940)
as Jack Summers
Iron Angel (1964)
as Reb
Ringside (1949)
as Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra"
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys (1978)
Actor
Apache Uprising (1965)
as Henry Belden
The Dalton Gang (1949)
as Larry West
The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
as Tom Dwyer
Outlaws of Pine Ridge (1942)
as Chips Barrett
Goldie and the Boxer (1979)
as Radio Announcer
The Purple Heart (1944)
as Lt. Peter Vincent
Days of Old Cheyenne (1943)
as Clint Ross
The Sombrero Kid (1942)
as Jerry Holden
When's Your Birthday? (1937)
as Marty - Gunman (uncredited)
The Phantom Cowboy (1941)
as Jim Lawrence
Punch and Jody (1974)
as Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz
The Man from the Rio Grande (1943)
as Lee Grant
The Duke of West Point (1938)
as Cadet Grady
That's My Gal (1947)
as Benny Novak
Saga of Death Valley (1939)
as Jerry
Donovan's Kid (1979)
as Sheriff at Stagecoach
Fort Utah (1967)
as Harris
The Big Operator (1959)
as Detective Sergeant
Dead Man's Gulch (1943)
as Tennessee Colby
Death Valley Outlaws (1941)
as Johnny Edwards
I Shot Billy the Kid (1950)
as Billy the Kid
Untamed Heiress (1954)
as Mike Lawrence
Lightnin' in the Forest (1948)
as Stan Martin
Doctor Dracula (1978)
as Elliot
Whiffs (1975)
as Sgt. Post
The Magnificent Stranger (1966)
as Grist
The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
as Feisty
The Apache Kid (1941)
as Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid
Beloved Enemy (1936)
as Mike, I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited)
Stagecoach Express (1942)
as Dave Gregory
The Crowd Roars (1938)
as Pete Mariola
Partners in Crime (1973)
as Bartender
Ghost Valley Raiders (1940)
as Tim Brandon
The Cyclone Kid (1942)
as Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson
Sailor's Lady (1940)
as Second Paymaster
Buckstone County Prison (1978)
as Warden Coley
Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
as Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith
Arizona Terrors (1942)
as Jim Bradley
Outlaws of Santa Fe (1944)
as Bob Conroy
Hostile Guns (1967)
as Ed Johnson
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as (archive footage)
China Doll (1958)
as MSgt. Hal Foster
Red Tomahawk (1967)
as Bly
Two Gun Sheriff (1941)
as Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon
A Missouri Outlaw (1941)
as Cliff Dixon
Convict Stage (1965)
as Marshal Jethro Karnin
Twilight of Honor (1963)
as Judson Elliot
Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
as Will Parker
Jesse James, Jr. (1942)
as Johnny Barrett
Born Reckless (1958)
as Bill Okie
The Chicago Kid (1945)
as Joe Ferrill
Train to Alcatraz (1948)
as Doug Forbes
Blazing Stewardesses (1975)
as Mike Trask
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
as Don Barry
The Tulsa Kid (1940)
as Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid
My Outlaw Brother (1951)
as Hank
The Sundown Kid (1942)
as Red Tracy
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
as Dr. Collins (uncredited)
Fort Courageous (1965)
as Captain Harvey
Gunfire (1950)
as Frank James / Bat Fenton
Calling All Marines (1939)
as 'Blackie' Cross
Sinners in Paradise (1938)
as Jessup
Square Dance Jubilee (1949)
as Don Blake
Border Rangers (1950)
as Bob Standish
Kansas Cyclone (1941)
as Jim Randall
War Party (1965)
as Sgt. Chaney
The Traitor Within (1942)
as Sam Starr
Canyon City (1943)
as Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid
Panama Patrol (1939)
as Loring
Desert Bandit (1941)
as Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger
Tough Assignment (1949)
as Dan Reilly
Carson City Cyclone (1943)
as Gilbert Phalen
Red Desert (1949)
as Pecos Jones
Saleslady (1938)
as Babcock
My Buddy (1944)
as Eddie Ballinger
Fugitive from Sonora (1943)
as Dave Winters / Ted Winters
Texas Terrors (1940)
as Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills
California Joe (1943)
as Joe Weldon
Wyoming Wildcat (1941)
as Bill Gannon
Black Hills Express (1943)
as Lon Walker
Bridal Bail (1934)
as Movie Usher
Jesse James' Women (1954)
as Jesse James
Train To Tombstone (1950)
as Len Howard
Buffalo Gun (1961)
as Murdock
Slippy McGee (1948)
as Slippy McGee
Think It Over (1938)
as Henchman
Frontier Vengeance (1940)
as Jim Sanders