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