Don 'Red' Barry
Acting • Born 1912-01-11 – Died 1980-07-17
Biography
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.
Filmography
269 credits
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Edward Calhoun (uncredited)
Frankenstein 1970
Movie • 1958
Douglas Row
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Movie • 1968
Rev. Zachary Gant
From Noon Till Three
Movie • 1976
Red Roxy
Lightnin' in the Forest
Movie • 1948
Stan Martin
Boss Nigger
Movie • 1975
7 Men from Now
Movie • 1956
Clete
Orca
Movie • 1977
Dock Worker
The Crash of Flight 401
Movie • 1978
Helicopter Pilot
Dead End
Movie • 1937
Dr. Flynn, Intern (uncredited)
Flying Down to Rio
Movie • 1933
Dancer (uncredited)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Movie • 1955
Jerry
The Magnificent Stranger
Movie • 1966
Grist
Blazing Stewardesses
Movie • 1975
Mike Trask
The Purple Heart
Movie • 1944
Lt. Peter Vincent
Walk on the Wild Side
Movie • 1962
Dockery
Only Angels Have Wings
Movie • 1939
Tex
Hooper
Movie • 1978
Sheriff
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie • 1971
Jody Simmons
Shalako
Movie • 1968
Buffalo
Starsky & Hutch
Movie • 1975
Doctor in Morgue
The Last Crooked Mile
Movie • 1946
Tom Dwyer
War Party
Movie • 1965
Sgt. Chaney
The Last Mile
Movie • 1959
Drake
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)
Apache Uprising
Movie • 1965
Henry Belden
Donovan's Kid
Movie • 1979
Sheriff at Stagecoach
Doctor Dracula
Movie • 1978
Elliot
Train to Alcatraz
Movie • 1948
Doug Forbes
Tough Assignment
Movie • 1949
Dan Reilly
Think It Over
Movie • 1938
Henchman
Gun Duel in Durango
Movie • 1957
Larry
The Duke of West Point
Movie • 1938
Grady
Sinners in Paradise
Movie • 1938
Jessup
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
Movie • 1976
Marshal
The Twinkle In God's Eye
Movie • 1955
Dawson
One Man's Law
Movie • 1940
Jack Summers
Born Reckless
Movie • 1958
Bill Okie
Carson City Cyclone
Movie • 1943
Gilbert Phalen
Iron Angel
Movie • 1964
Reb
California Joe
Movie • 1943
Joe Weldon
Days of Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Jesse James
The Chicago Kid
Movie • 1945
Joe Ferrill
Convict Stage
Movie • 1965
Marshal Jethro Karnin
Saleslady
Movie • 1938
Babcock
Train To Tombstone
Movie • 1950
Len Howard
Saga of Death Valley
Movie • 1939
Jerry
Buckstone County Prison
Movie • 1978
Warden Coley
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
The Big Operator
Movie • 1959
Detective Sergeant
Jesse James' Women
Movie • 1954
Jesse James
The Plainsman and the Lady
Movie • 1946
Feisty
Adventures of Red Ryder
Movie • 1940
Red Ryder
Panama Patrol
Movie • 1939
Loring
Junior Bonner
Movie • 1972
Homer Rutledge
Hostile Guns
Movie • 1967
Ed Johnson
When's Your Birthday?
Movie • 1937
Marty - Gunman (uncredited)
The Crowd Roars
Movie • 1938
Pete Mariola
That's My Gal
Movie • 1947
Benny Novak
Remember Pearl Harbor
Movie • 1942
Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith
The Woman I Love
Movie • 1937
Michel
Hunters Are for Killing
Movie • 1970
Hank Phillips
Back Roads
Movie • 1981
Pete
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Movie • 1939
Curly Parsons
Town Tamer
Movie • 1965
Tex
Ocean's Eleven
Movie • 1960
McCoy (uncredited)
Fort Courageous
Movie • 1965
Captain Harvey
Night Waitress
Movie • 1936
Mario Rigo
Young Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1938
Dr. Collins (uncredited)
Beloved Enemy
Movie • 1936
Mike, I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited)
Red Tomahawk
Movie • 1967
Bly
I Shot Billy the Kid
Movie • 1950
Billy the Kid
Navy Blue and Gold
Movie • 1937
Mason (Southern Institute football player) (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1939
Collins
Wyoming Outlaw
Movie • 1939
Will Parker
Arizona Terrors
Movie • 1942
Jim Bradley
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1939
Collins - Intern (uncredited)
Death Valley Outlaws
Movie • 1941
Johnny Edwards
Dead Man's Gulch
Movie • 1943
Tennessee Colby
Canyon City
Movie • 1943
Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid
Jesse James, Jr.
Movie • 1942
Johnny Barrett
Untamed Heiress
Movie • 1954
Mike Lawrence
Bandolero!
Movie • 1968
Jack Hawkins
Calling All Marines
Movie • 1939
'Blackie' Cross
Days of Old Cheyenne
Movie • 1943
Clint Ross
Fugitive from Sonora
Movie • 1943
Dave Winters / Ted Winters
A Missouri Outlaw
Movie • 1941
Cliff Dixon
The Apache Kid
Movie • 1941
Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid
Goldie and the Boxer
Movie • 1979
Radio Announcer
Undercover with the KKK
Movie • 1979
Ben Wright
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie • 1970
Rusty
Walk Like a Dragon
Movie • 1960
Cabot
The Swarm
Movie • 1978
Pete Harris
The Man from the Rio Grande
Movie • 1943
Lee Grant
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
Devery's Foreman
Stagecoach Express
Movie • 1942
Dave Gregory
Alvarez Kelly
Movie • 1966
Lt. Farrow
Madonna of the Desert
Movie • 1948
Tony French
Red Desert
Movie • 1949
Pecos Jones
My Buddy
Movie • 1944
Eddie Ballinger
The West Side Kid
Movie • 1943
Johnny April
The Traitor Within
Movie • 1942
Sam Starr
Jack Pot
Movie • 1940
Bryan (uncredited)
Fort Utah
Movie • 1967
Harris
The Phantom Cowboy
Movie • 1941
Jim Lawrence
A Cry For Justice
Movie • 1979
Virgil Hall
Border Rangers
Movie • 1950
Bob Standish
Gunfire
Movie • 1950
Frank James / Bat Fenton
The Cyclone Kid
Movie • 1942
Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson
Ghost Valley Raiders
Movie • 1940
Tim Brandon
Texas Terrors
Movie • 1940
Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills
The Tulsa Kid
Movie • 1940
Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid
Black Hills Express
Movie • 1943
Lon Walker
Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Movie • 1942
Chips Barrett
Wyoming Wildcat
Movie • 1941
Bill Gannon
The Sombrero Kid
Movie • 1942
Jerry Holden
The Sundown Kid
Movie • 1942
Red Tracy
Frontier Vengeance
Movie • 1940
Jim Sanders
Two Gun Sheriff
Movie • 1941
Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon
Desert Bandit
Movie • 1941
Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger
Kansas Cyclone
Movie • 1941
Jim Randall
Bells of Rosarita
Movie • 1945
Don Barry
Outlaws of Santa Fe
Movie • 1944
Bob Conroy
The Dalton Gang
Movie • 1949
Larry West
Square Dance Jubilee
Movie • 1949
Don Blake
Law of the Lawless
Movie • 1964
Red
Buffalo Gun
Movie • 1961
Murdock
Bridal Bail
Movie • 1934
Movie Usher
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie • 1973
Miles Henderson
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Movie • 1978
Bartender
Ringside
Movie • 1949
Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra"
Whiffs
Movie • 1975
Sgt. Post
Sailor's Lady
Movie • 1940
Second Paymaster
China Doll
Movie • 1958
MSgt. Hal Foster
Slippy McGee
Movie • 1948
Slippy McGee
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
Movie • 1978
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Movie • 1972
Trainer
Punch and Jody
Movie • 1974
Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz
Partners in Crime
Movie • 1973
Bartender
Hustle
Movie • 1975
Airport Bartender
Twilight of Honor
Movie • 1963
Judson Elliot
One More Train to Rob
Movie • 1971
Charlie
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Truck Driver
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Shorty Jones
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
F Troop
TV • 1965
Col. Donnely
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Larabee
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Batman
TV • 1966
The Grand Vizier
The Munsters
TV • 1964
Ted
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Charlie Turner
Baretta
TV • 1975
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
The Checker
240-Robert
TV • 1979
Hawkins
TV • 1973
Ben
Land of the Giants
TV • 1968
Dr. Zoral
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Harry Silvers
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Jeremiah Clemmons
Big John, Little John
TV • 1976
Lionel P. Crabtree
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
McIver
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Red Doyle
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Dave Grogan
Mickey
TV • 1964
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Deputy Sheriff
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Tyrell Security Guard
Laredo
TV • 1965
Sam Dixie
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
TV • 1966
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
The Immortal
TV • 1970
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Tom Goodfellow
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Amos Brown
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Shorty Downs
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Andy
Bronco
TV • 1958
Hondo
TV • 1967
Lawman
TV • 1958
Shorty - Assassin
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Tanner
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Luke Short
Laramie
TV • 1959
Barbary Coast
TV • 1975
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Anthony Gallo
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
TV • 1955
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
Daniels
The Roaring 20's
TV • 1960
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
First Cowboy
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Charlie Durham
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Farnsworth
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Snyder
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Airline Captain
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Arkansas
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Arkansas Ferguson
Ironside
TV • 1967
Paul Farrell
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Dugan
The Virginian
TV • 1962
John Slaughter
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Man
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Charles Coulter
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dobson
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV • 1976
Robert Barnes
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Kyle Horgan
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Howie
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Frank Taylor
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Marty Ballard
Dan August
TV • 1970
Ed Gurney
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Sam
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Policeman
Ironside
TV • 1967
Warrant Officer Harry Wilke
Ironside
TV • 1967
Walter Prudy
Ironside
TV • 1967
Lt. Tom Pierce
Ironside
TV • 1967
Capt. Dennis Barnes
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Rock
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Shorty Adams
Maverick
TV • 1957
Sheriff
Maverick
TV • 1957
Fred Leslie
Maverick
TV • 1957
Willie Saffron
Maverick
TV • 1957
Dishonest Abe
Maverick
TV • 1957
Smith
The Phil Silvers Show
TV • 1955
Capt. Carter (uncredited)
Public Defender
TV • 1954
Milo Martin
Dragnet
TV • 1951
Parker Cleaver
Dragnet
TV • 1951
Mike Armstrong
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Martin
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Shorty McCall
The Dream Merchants
TV • 1980
Capt. Casey
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Soldier
The Deputy
TV • 1959
Utah
Batman
TV • 1966
Tarantula
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Charlie Bishop
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Grut
Lawman
TV • 1958
Jim Gaylord
Lawman
TV • 1958
Dusty McCade
Lawman
TV • 1958
Jess Schaeffer
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV • 1952
Clerk
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Lt. Snedigar
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Davy Harrods
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Barnaby Allson
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Frank Sully
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Roy Briggs
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Harry Cannon
McHale's Navy
TV • 1962
Capt. Kittridge
Broadside
TV • 1964
Colonel Stark
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Al Karlovic
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Abner Dickens
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Jenkins
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Bud Claggett
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Temple
T.H.E. Cat
TV • 1966
Morgan
T.H.E. Cat
TV • 1966
Stoddard
Dragnet
TV • 1967
James Fremont
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Sam
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Rainey
Mannix
TV • 1967
Mr. Barlow
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Edwin M. Kale
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Wino
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mr. Hobbs
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Carstairs
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Hutton
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Jake
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Ted
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Lt. Bocina
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Morris
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Captain Simmonds
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Captain Barnes
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Sheriff (uncredited)
The Outsider
TV • 1968
Sheriff Watson
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Vern