Tony Barry
Acting • Born 1941-08-28 – Died 2022-12-21
Biography
Tony Barry (born 28 August 1941) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.
Filmography
90 credits
Paperback Hero
Movie • 1999
Frog Dreaming
Movie • 1986
Gaza
We of the Never Never
Movie • 1982
Mac
The Man From Snowy River II
Movie • 1988
Jacko
Mullet
Movie • 2001
Col Maloney
Goodbye Pork Pie
Movie • 1981
John
I Own the Racecourse
Movie • 1986
Bert Hammond
Solo
Movie • 2006
Louis
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Movie • 1980
Det. John Hughes
Jack Be Nimble
Movie • 1993
Clarrie
Newsfront
Movie • 1978
Greasy
The Last of the Ryans
Movie • 1997
Father Brosnan
La spagnola
Movie • 2001
Dr. Knuckey
The Night We Called It a Day
Movie • 2003
Ralph Blue
Mystery Road
Movie • 2013
Sarge
The Ballad of Betty & Joe
Movie • 2008
Joe
The Picture Show Man
Movie • 1977
Policeman
The Settlement
Movie • 1984
The Sergeant
Fresh Air
Movie • 1999
Bob
The Widower
Movie • 2004
Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
Movie • 2003
Lennie
Pallet on the Floor
Movie • 1986
Larkman
The Last Tattoo
Movie • 1994
James Carroll
The Mango Tree
Movie • 1977
Tommy Smith
Break of Day
Movie • 1976
Joe
The Surfer
Movie • 1986
Calhoun
Never Say Die
Movie • 1988
Insp. Evans
Platypus Cove
Movie • 1986
Frank Nelson
The Rainbow Warrior
Movie • 1997
Greenpeace Activist
The Odd Angry Shot
Movie • 1979
Black Ronnie
Rest for the Wicked
Movie • 2011
Murray
Initiation
Movie • 1987
Pat
Absent Without Leave
Movie • 1993
Peter
The Coca-Cola Kid
Movie • 1985
Bushman
BabaKiueria
Movie • 1986
Father (Mr. Smith)
Little Boy Lost
Movie • 1978
Const. O'Day
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
Movie • 1976
Police Officer
Home by Christmas
Movie • 2010
Ed
Shame
Movie • 1988
Tim Curtis
Australia
Movie • 2008
Sergeant Callahan
Keiron: The First Voyager
Movie • 1985
Moulen
Archer's Adventure
Movie • 1985
Squatter
Old Scores
Movie • 1991
Barry Brown
One Answer to Cancer
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Grace
Movie • 2017
Mr. Symonds
Puzzle
Movie • 1978
Det. Const. Langdon
Lady Vengeance
Movie • 2005
Jenny's Adoptive Father
Dead Easy
Movie • 1982
Ozzie
Demolition
Movie • 1979
Change Of Heart
Movie • 1999
Mervyn
Shadow of the Cobra
Movie • 1989
Typhon's People
Movie • 1993
The Minister
Nobody's Child
Movie • 2017
Hank
Hard Knocks
Movie • 1980
Barry
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Movie • 1997
Dwayne
BlackJack
Movie • 2003
Joe Bueneroti
Rose Against the Odds
Movie • 1991
Jack Rennie
Midnite Spares
Movie • 1983
Howard
Cross Life
Movie • 2007
Bill
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Movie • 1988
Mad Mile
The Earthling
Movie • 1980
Red
The Irishman
Movie • 1978
Rob Dalgleish
The Silence
Movie • 2006
Dennis Riordan
Hell Has Harbour Views
Movie • 2005
Frank Flannery
Wild Man
Movie • 1977
Dombey Morgan
Gone
Movie • 2006
UTE Driver
Two Friends
Movie • 1986
Charlie
Joyful and Triumphant
Movie • 1993
George Bishop
Remember Belsen
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Almost
Movie
Dr. Khan
Ned
Movie • 2003
Bartender
The End
TV • 2020
Willie
False Witness
TV • 2009
The Libertine
Halifax f.p.
TV • 1994
Bob 'Dizzy' Gillespie
Dirt Game
TV • 2009
Alec Nolan
Total Control
TV • 2019
Phillip Anderson
The Time of Our Lives
TV • 2013
Ray Tivolli
The Flying Doctors
TV • 1986
Bruce Logan
Bay of Fires
TV • 2023
Joseph
Scales of Justice
TV • 1983
Nipper Jackson
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo
TV • 2011
Sir Frank Packer
Faraway Downs
TV • 2023
Sergeant Callahan
The Sullivans
TV • 1976
Ginger
Cyclone Tracy
TV • 1986
Mick Brennan
Police Rescue
TV • 1991
Clyde
The Man from Snowy River
TV • 1994
Bernard Hardwick
Harrow
TV • 2018
Jack Twine
Soldier Soldier
TV • 1991
Ron Jenkins
All Saints
TV • 1998
Frank O'Hara
Grass Roots
TV • 2000
Drew Leonard