Barry Sullivan
Acting • Born 1912-08-29 – Died 1994-06-06
Biography
Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television. One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas. Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand. In 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own and replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint. Unfortunately, Sullivan only lasted two episodes before the show was cancelled, and then resurrected five weeks later with Vincent Price once again playing the starring role. Sullivan's first starring TV show was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957, as secret agent Ken Thurston, the role Herbert Marshall originally portrayed before the microphone. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the adventure/drama television series Harbormaster. He played a commercial ship's captain, David Scott, and Paul Burke played his partner, Jeff Kittridge, in five episodes of the series, which aired first on CBS and then ABC under the revised title Adventure at Scott Island. In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the western television series The Tall Man (although the series ran for seventy-five half-hour episodes, the one in which Garrett kills Billy was never filmed). Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as John Chisum, but his scene was excised from the release print (though later restored to the film). He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. In additional to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, which aired on NBC on Monday, alternating with Perry Como), during the 1966-1967 season. Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride. Sullivan guest starred in many series, including The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Reporter, The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, and McMillan and Wife. He starred in many Hallmark Hall of Fame specials including a highly acclaimed production of "The Price" opposite George C. Scott. Sullivan was consistently in demand for the entirety of his career. His acting career spanned romantic leading man roles to villains and finally to character roles. In his later years, Sullivan had roles in the films, Oh God with George Burns and Earthquake, where he shared scenes with Ava Gardner. Sullivan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 1500 Vine St. for his work in television, and another at 6160 Hollywood Blvd. for motion pictures.
Filmography
190 credits
Earthquake
Movie • 1974
Dr. Willis Stockle
Shark
Movie • 1969
Mallare
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Chisum
Mr. Imperium
Movie • 1951
Paul Hunter
The Human Factor
Movie • 1975
Edmonds
The Hoaxters
Movie • 1952
Narrator (voice)
Suspense
Movie • 1946
Joe Morgan
The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie • 1952
Fred Amiel
How to Steal the World
Movie • 1968
Dr. Robert Kingsley
The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Shubunka
Loophole
Movie • 1954
Mike Donovan
Tension
Movie • 1949
Lt. Collier Bonnabel
Cry of the Hunted
Movie • 1953
Lieutenant Tunner
Queen Bee
Movie • 1955
Avery "Beauty" Phillips
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Movie • 1964
Vance Pierson
Dime a Dance
Movie • 1937
Sailor
Playgirl
Movie • 1954
Mike Marsh
Caravans
Movie • 1978
Richardson
Jeopardy
Movie • 1953
Doug Stilwin
Framed
Movie • 1947
Steve Price
Cause for Alarm!
Movie • 1951
George Z. Jones
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Movie • 1969
Calvet
Forty Guns
Movie • 1957
Griff Bonell
Another Time, Another Place
Movie • 1958
Carter Reynolds
Strategic Air Command
Movie • 1955
Rocky Samford
Take a Hard Ride
Movie • 1975
Kane
Light in the Piazza
Movie • 1962
Noel Johnson
Julie
Movie • 1956
Cliff Henderson
Planet of the Vampires
Movie • 1965
Captain Mark Markary
The Arrangement
Movie • 1969
Chet Collier (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
Movie • 1951
Joe Bucknor
Dragoon Wells Massacre
Movie • 1957
Link Ferris
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1949
Tom Buchanaan
No Questions Asked
Movie • 1951
Steve Keiver
The Miami Story
Movie • 1954
Mick Flagg
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie • 1979
Self
Payment on Demand
Movie • 1951
David Anderson Ramsey
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie • 2002
Griff Bonnell (archive footage)
Yuma
Movie • 1971
Nels Decker
Violent Naples
Movie • 1976
'O' Generale
Casino
Movie • 1980
Sam Fletcher
Seven Ways from Sundown
Movie • 1960
Jim Flood
Lady in the Dark
Movie • 1944
Dr. Brooks
Any Number Can Play
Movie • 1949
Tycoon
Intimacy
Movie • 1966
Walter Nicholson
A Gathering of Eagles
Movie • 1963
Col. Bill Fowler
Savage
Movie • 1973
Judge Daniel Stern
Man in the Middle
Movie • 1964
General Kempton
Smart Woman
Movie • 1948
Frank McCoy
Three Guys Named Mike
Movie • 1951
Mike Tracy
An American Dream
Movie • 1966
Police Lt. G. Roberts
And Now Tomorrow
Movie • 1944
Jeff Stoddard
Her Twelve Men
Movie • 1954
Richard Y. Oliver, Sr.
Nancy Goes to Rio
Movie • 1950
Paul Berten
China Venture
Movie • 1953
Cmdr. Bert Thompson
Skirts Ahoy!
Movie • 1952
Paul Elcott
The Outriders
Movie • 1950
Jesse Wallace
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Movie • 1976
Dean Acheson
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Movie • 1966
Chasen
The Maverick Queen
Movie • 1956
Jeff Younger
Getting Gertie's Garter
Movie • 1945
Ted Dalton
Buckskin
Movie • 1968
Chaddock
Texas Lady
Movie • 1955
Chris Mooney
Hurricane
Movie • 1974
Hank Stoddard
Wolf Larsen
Movie • 1958
Wolf Larsen
My Blood Runs Cold
Movie • 1965
Julian Merriday
Grand Jury
Movie • 1977
Don Bentine
Stage to Thunder Rock
Movie • 1964
Sheriff Horne
A Life of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Lee Gorrance
Inside Straight
Movie • 1951
Johnny Sanderson
Bad Men of Tombstone
Movie • 1949
Tom Horn
This Savage Land
Movie • 1969
Benjamin Pride
Letters from Three Lovers
Movie • 1973
Joshua
The Immortal
Movie • 1969
Jordan Braddock
Rainbow Island
Movie • 1944
Ken Masters
The Woman of the Town
Movie • 1943
King Kennedy
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Movie • 1955
The Price
Movie • 1971
Walter Franz
Dates and Nuts
Movie • 1937
Collegian
Oh, God!
Movie • 1977
Bishop Reardon
House on Greenapple Road
Movie • 1970
Chief Frank Untermyer
The Purple Gang
Movie • 1959
William P. Harley
Grounds for Marriage
Movie • 1951
Chris Bartlett
Cannon
Movie • 1971
Calhoun
The Washington Affair
Movie • 1977
Walter Nicholson
The Secret of Lost Valley
Movie • 1980
Dr. Seldon
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Movie • 1972
Dillon
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Movie • 1940
Thug in Car's Back Seat
Another Part of the Forest
Movie • 1972
Marcus Hubbard
The Immigrants
Movie • 1978
Grant Whittier
Stalked
Movie • 1968
Narrator
The Magician
Movie • 1973
Joseph Baker
Duffy's Tavern
Movie • 1945
Danny Murphy
Nightmare at Ground Zero
Movie • 1958
Daniel Joyce
It Takes All Kinds
Movie • 1969
Orville Benton
Harlow
Movie • 1965
Marino Bello
Night Gallery
Movie • 1969
Dr. Frank Heatherton
No Room to Run
Movie • 1977
Garth Kingswood
High Explosive
Movie • 1943
Mike Douglas
The Way to the Gold
Movie • 1957
Marshal Hannibal
Johnny Belinda
Movie • 1967
Black MacDonald
Survival
Movie • 1976
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Movie • 1957
Hard Boiled Harry
Ain't No Time for Glory
Movie • 1957
Self - Host
Ford Star Jubilee
TV • 1955
Garrison's Gorillas
TV • 1967
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Edwards
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
William Ralston
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Maj. Victor Hanley
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Morgan Hilliard
That Girl
TV • 1966
Route 66
TV • 1960
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Marty Wallach
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
DeMargeran
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Studio One
TV • 1948
Michael Norman
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Dr. Simsich
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Robert Slenger
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Alex Lowell
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Walter Franz
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Pat Garrett
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mark Robeson
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Harry O
TV • 1974
The Immortal
TV • 1970
Vega$
TV • 1978
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Sheriff Trumbell
Police Story
TV • 1973
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Dan Casement
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Frank Dawson
Lucan
TV • 1977
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Jeff Foster
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Donald Carter
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Harbormaster
TV • 1957
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Raney Benson
The Road West
TV • 1966
Ben Pride
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Richard Bradley
The Runaways
TV • 1978
The Man Called X
TV • 1956
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Ken Kramer
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Blaine Chandler
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Walt Harmon
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Steve McCoy
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Dan
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Jed Lorimer
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Clint Shannon
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV • 1976
Sen. Paxton
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Dr. Herbert Stone
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
E.J. Edwards
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Creston Collins
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Dane Bigelow
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Gordon McKenna
Studio One
TV • 1948
Steve Burke
Studio One
TV • 1948
Edward Roberts
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Attorney Dayton Fuller
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Mark Burdette
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Miles Calman
The Virginian
TV • 1962
John Springfield
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Edwards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Grant Chase
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Breitbach
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Professor Tink Polk
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Phillip Shaffer
The Danny Thomas Hour
TV • 1967
Fairbanks
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Atty. Gen. Harry Daugherty
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Jason Craig
Once an Eagle
TV • 1976
Gen. Bannerman
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Paul Sampson
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Gen. Wiley
Cool Million
TV • 1972
Baynard Barnes
Mannix
TV • 1967
Victor Fortune
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
The Invisible Man
TV • 1975
Lionel Parks
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Chris 'Ace' Bane
The Loner
TV • 1965
The Doctor
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Dr. Robert Kingsley
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Murray Brennan
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Doug Stover
The Bastard
TV • 1978
Abraham Ware
McCloud
TV • 1970
Gen. Ralph Touhy