Barry Corbin
Acting • Born 1940-10-16
Biography
Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon), often as a sheriff, military leader, or other authority figure.
Filmography
198 credits
WarGames
Movie • 1983
General Beringer
Critters 2
Movie • 1988
Harv
The Dilemma
Movie
Gerald
Ghost Dad
Movie • 1990
Mr. Emery Collins
Wyvern
Movie • 2009
Haas
Stir Crazy
Movie • 1980
Warden Walter Beatty
Who's Harry Crumb?
Movie • 1989
P.J. Downing
In the Valley of Elah
Movie • 2007
Arnold Bickman
No Country for Old Men
Movie • 2007
Ellis
Short Time
Movie • 1990
Captain
Curdled
Movie • 1996
Lodger
Ben 10: Alien Swarm
Movie • 2009
Grandpa Max Tennyson
Funny Thing About Love
Movie • 2021
Grandpa Joe
Lake City
Movie • 2008
George
Star Trek: First Frontier
Movie • 2020
John April
The Margarita Man
Movie • 2019
Chief Doyle
My Son Is Innocent
Movie • 1996
Dan Pendleton
Crossfire Trail
Movie • 2001
Sheriff Walter Moncrief
Solo
Movie • 1996
General Clyde Haynes
Nothing in Common
Movie • 1986
Andrew Woolridge
The Hired Heart
Movie • 1997
Mike Hadley
The Hot Spot
Movie • 1990
Sheriff
Conagher
Movie • 1991
Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver
Monte Walsh
Movie • 2003
Bob the Storekeeper
Honkytonk Man
Movie • 1982
Arnspriger
NoNAMES
Movie • 2010
Ed
Career Opportunities
Movie • 1991
Officer Don
Rising Stars
Movie • 2010
Farmer
Urban Cowboy
Movie • 1980
Uncle Bob
Any Which Way You Can
Movie • 1980
Fat Zack
Six Pack
Movie • 1982
Sheriff
Beautiful Dreamer
Movie • 2006
Grandpa
My Science Project
Movie • 1985
Lew Harlan
Universal Squadrons
Movie • 2011
Deakin
Held Up
Movie • 1999
Pembry
The Man Who Loved Women
Movie • 1983
Roy Carr
A Face to Kill for
Movie • 1999
Frank Hadley
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
Movie • 1984
Burt Hamilton
John Henry
Movie • 1986
Mr. Jenkins
Feed the Fish
Movie • 2011
Axel Andersen
Timequest
Movie • 2003
Lyndon Johnson
Under Cover
Movie • 1987
Sergeant Irwin Lee
Sealed with a Kiss
Movie • 1999
Wink 'Pop' Blake
The Killing of Randy Webster
Movie • 1981
Nick Hanson
Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie • 2023
Undertaker Turton
Valley of the Sun
Movie • 2011
Gene Taggart
What Comes Around
Movie • 1985
Leon Redden
The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez
Movie • 2012
Walker
No One Can Hear You
Movie • 2001
Sheriff Joe Webster
Sedona
Movie • 2011
Les
River's End
Movie • 2005
Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins
Shadow on the Mesa
Movie • 2013
Jake Rawlins
Clover Bend
Movie • 2002
Cotton Clayton
Hope Ranch
Movie • 2002
Shorty
This Is Where We Live
Movie • 2013
Bode Warden
Drive-In Movie Memories
Movie • 2001
Waitin' to Live
Movie • 2006
Buford Pike
El Tonto Por Cristo
Movie • 2025
Terry Don
Beyond the Farthest Star
Movie • 2013
Chief Burns
Warm Hearts, Cold Feet
Movie • 1987
Max
Dead & Buried
Movie • 1981
Phil
C.A.T. Squad
Movie • 1986
The Director
Red King, White Knight
Movie • 1989
Bentick
This House Possessed
Movie • 1981
Lt. Fletcher
LBJ: The Early Years
Movie • 1987
Judge Alvin J. Wirtz
The Jesse Owens Story
Movie • 1984
Judge
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
Movie • 1999
Tony
The Defiant Ones
Movie • 1986
Floyd Carpenter
Beer for My Horses
Movie • 2008
Buck Baker
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie • 2014
Ol' Jammer (voice)
The Chase
Movie • 1991
Wallis
The Keys
Movie • 1992
Buckaloo
A Few Days at Weasel Creek
Movie • 1981
Gus Lobell
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Movie • 1981
Wimbish
Dawn of the Crescent Moon
Movie • 2014
Cyrus
The Grand
Movie • 2007
Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro
Diving With The Dinosaur Fish
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Last Flight Out
Movie • 1990
Capt. Bob Berg
Young Harry Houdini
Movie • 1987
Elmore
Under Siege
Movie • 1986
Moon Shot
Movie • 1994
Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
Kiss and Tell
Movie • 1996
George Reed
Firefighter
Movie • 1986
Capt. Johnson
Ay Lav Yu Tuu
Movie • 2017
Danny Brown
Christmas in the Smokies
Movie • 2015
Wade Haygood
The People Across the Lake
Movie • 1988
Malcolm Bryce
Off the Mark
Movie • 1987
Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa
Born Wild
Movie • 2012
Ray Jennings
The Ratings Game
Movie • 1984
Colonel
Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
Movie
Henry Spangler (voice)
It Takes Two
Movie • 1988
George Lawrence
The Next Door Neighbor
Movie • 2011
Judge Rodgers
Hidden Places
Movie • 2006
Sheriff
Ghoul
Movie • 2012
Grandfather
The Bay House
Movie • 2022
Cowden Brooks
Last Man Club
Movie • 2016
Pete Williams
Windsor
Movie • 2016
Gil Denton
The Fumbleheads
Movie • 1997
Robert Blister
New Life
Movie • 2016
Oscar
All Saints
Movie • 2017
Forrest
Stranger on My Land
Movie • 1988
Gil
Siringo
Movie • 1995
Marshall John Llewellyn
The Homesman
Movie • 2014
Buster Shaver
Alien Express
Movie • 2005
Senator Frank Rawlings
The Super Cops
Movie • 1974
Onlooker on Ladder (uncredited)
Fantasies
Movie • 1982
Naylor
An American in Texas
Movie • 2017
Larry Korchinsky
Hard Traveling
Movie • 1986
Frank Burton
Farmer of the Year
Movie • 2018
Hap
Bloodworth
Movie • 2010
Itchy
The Valley
Movie • 2018
Gary
Mountain Top
Movie • 2017
Sam Miller
Deadly Family Secrets
Movie • 1995
Mr. Potter
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Movie • 1983
B. R. Abernathy
The Hitchhiker
Movie • 2014
Leonard
Trading Paint
Movie • 2019
Sheriff Buck Taylor
Prime Suspect
Movie • 1982
Bob Austin
Eminence Hill
Movie • 2019
Noah
Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's
Movie • 2015
Self
Rage!
Movie • 1980
Resident #5
Dunsmore
Movie • 2003
Sheriff Breen
Brimming with Love
Movie • 2018
Walter
The Gristle
Movie • 2004
Senator Dorm
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Movie • 1982
C.J.
Bus Stop
Movie • 1982
Virgil Blessing
Virus
Movie • 1995
Dr. Clayman
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Movie • 2011
Judge Smith
Man Against the Mob
Movie • 1988
Big Mac McCleary
Not Since You
Movie • 2009
Uncle Dennis
Permanent Record
Movie • 1988
Jim Sinclair
The Journeyman
Movie • 2001
Charlie Ledbetter
Bitter Harvest
Movie • 1981
Dr. Agajanian
Magic Max
Movie • 2021
Grismer
Travis McGee
Movie • 1983
Sheriff Hack Ames
That Evening Sun
Movie • 2009
Thurl Chessor
The Pipeline
Movie
Lester Galloway
Sod and Stubble
Movie • 2025
Yesterday's Dreams
Movie • 2005
Pastor
Be Glad He Did It
Movie
Buddy Kasper
Capture the Flag
Movie
Miami
Secret Witness
Movie • 1988
Sheriff
Return to Cicely
Movie • 2013
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Lt. Lou Flannigan
The Drew Carey Show
TV • 1995
Chuck Fifer
One Tree Hill
TV • 2003
Whitey Durham
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Ellen
TV • 1994
Jack Penney
Psych
TV • 2006
Billy Joe
Reba
TV • 2001
JV
Designing Women
TV • 1986
The A-Team
TV • 1983
J.J. Kincaid
Mysterious Ways
TV • 2000
Matlock
TV • 1986
Steven McRea
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Dead Run")
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Fire Chief (voice)
Spin City
TV • 1996
Peter Noland
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV • 1993
Ben Crowder
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Dallas
TV • 1978
Sheriff Fenton Washburn
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Maurice Minnifield
Tucker's Witch
TV • 1982
Boone
TV • 1983
Merit Sawyer
The Famous Teddy Z
TV • 1989
The Thorn Birds
TV • 1983
Pete
Unscripted
TV • 2005
Self
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Carlton Powers
I Know My First Name Is Steven
TV • 1989
Officer Warner
Spies
TV • 1987
Washingtoon
TV • 1985
Bunky Munster
Anger Management
TV • 2012
Ed
The Big Easy
TV • 1996
C.D. LeBlanc
Lonesome Dove
TV • 1989
Roscoe Brown
Blood & Oil
TV • 2015
Clifton Lundegren
Yellowstone
TV • 2018
Ross
Life with Louie
TV • 1994
Uncle Sammy (voice)
Spin City
TV • 1996
Peter Noland (archive footage)
Young Sheldon
TV • 2017
Mr. Gilford
The Ranch
TV • 2016
Dale
A Death in California
TV • 1985
Jim Heusdens
Fatal Vision
TV • 1984
Franz Grebner
Parenthood
TV • 2010
Ernie
NBC Special Treat
TV • 1975
Stokey Andrews
Tall Tales & Legends
TV • 1985
Mr. Jenkins
Tulsa King
TV • 2022
Babe Keller
Modern Family
TV • 2009
Merle Tucker
Columbo
TV • 1971
Clifford Calvert
JAG
TV • 1995
Percival Bertram
9-1-1: Lone Star
TV • 2020
Stuart Ryder
Better Call Saul
TV • 2015
Everett Acker
Murder in Texas
TV • 1981
Dist. Atty. McMasters
The Closer
TV • 2005
Clay Johnson
Moon Shot
TV • 1994
Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Elmore
The Magnificent Seven
TV • 1998
Wickes
Call to Glory
TV • 1984
Mr. Hunter
Army Wives
TV • 2007
Veteran Patient
The Duck Factory
TV • 1984
Hubbell