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