Don 'Red' Barry
145 movies · 83 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 11, 1912
- Died
- Jul 17, 1980 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Donald Barry De Acosta · Donald Barry · Donald 'Red' Barry · Milton Poimboeuf
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.
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Known for
Don 'Red' Barry: movies and TV shows
Acting (227)
- 1981 Back Roads
as Pete
- 1980
- 1979 Goldie and the Boxer
as Radio Announcer
- 1979
- 1979 Undercover with the KKK
as Ben Wright
- 1979
- 1979 A Cry for Justice
as Virgil Hall
- 1979 Donovan's Kid
as Sheriff at Stagecoach
- 1978 The Crash of Flight 401
as Helicopter Pilot
- 1978 The One Man Jury
as Sgt. Murphy
- 1978 Hooper
as Sheriff
- 1978 Hot Lead & Cold Feet
as Bartender
- 1978 Buckstone County Prison
as Warden Coley
- 1978 The Swarm
as Pete Harris
- 1978 Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Devery's Foreman
- 1978 Doctor Dracula
as Elliot
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977 Orca
as Dock Worker
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 From Noon Till Three
as Red Roxy
- 1976 The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
as Marshal
- 1976 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
- 1976
- 1975 Hustle
as Airport Bartender
- 1975 Whiffs
as Sgt. Post
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975 Blazing Stewardesses
as Mike Trask
- 1975 Starsky & Hutch
as Doctor in Morgue
- 1975
- 1974 Punch and Jody
as Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973 Partners in Crime
as Bartender
- 1973
- 1973
- 1973 Incident on a Dark Street
as Miles Henderson
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Junior Bonner
as Homer Rutledge
- 1972 The Eyes of Charles Sand
as Trainer
- 1972
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971 Johnny Got His Gun
as Jody Simmons
- 1971 One More Train to Rob
as Charlie
- 1970
- 1970
- 1970 Rio Lobo
as Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)
- 1970
- 1970 Hunters Are for Killing
as Hank Phillips
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968 Shalako
as Buffalo
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968 The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Rev. Zachary Gant
- 1968 Bandolero!
as Jack Hawkins
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967 Fort Utah
as Harris
- 1967 Hostile Guns
as Ed Johnson
- 1967 Ironside · TV
as Paul Farrell / Capt. Dennis Barnes / Walter Prudy / Lt. Tom Pierce / Warrant Officer Harry Wilke · 5 episodes
- 1967
- 1967 Red Tomahawk
as Bly
- 1966 Alvarez Kelly
as Lt. Farrow
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 The Magnificent Stranger
as Grist
- 1966
- 1965 Apache Uprising
as Henry Belden
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 Town Tamer
as Tex
- 1965 Fort Courageous
as Captain Harvey
- 1965 War Party
as Sgt. Chaney
- 1965 Convict Stage
as Marshal Jethro Karnin
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 Law of the Lawless
as Red
- 1964 Iron Angel
as Reb
- 1963 Twilight of Honor
as Judson Elliot
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962 The Virginian · TV
as Shorty Downs / Dugan / John Slaughter / Man / Charles Coulter / Hutton / Carstairs / Jake · 8 episodes
- 1962
- 1962 Walk on the Wild Side
as Dockery
- 1961 Buffalo Gun
as Murdock
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Ocean's Eleven
as McCoy (uncredited)
- 1960 Walk Like a Dragon
as Cabot
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Big Operator
as Detective Sergeant
- 1959 Warlock
as Edward Calhoun (uncredited)
- 1959 The Last Mile
as Drake
- 1959
- 1958 Born Reckless
as Bill Okie
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Frankenstein 1970
as Douglas Row
- 1958 China Doll
as MSgt. Hal Foster
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Gun Duel in Durango
as Larry
- 1956 7 Men from Now
as Clete
- 1955 I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Jerry
- 1955 The Twinkle In God's Eye
as Dawson
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954 Jesse James' Women
as Jesse James
- 1954 Untamed Heiress
as Mike Lawrence
- 1954
- 1952
- 1951
- 1951 My Outlaw Brother
as Hank
- 1950 Border Rangers
as Bob Standish
- 1950
- 1950 Train To Tombstone
as Len Howard
- 1950 Gunfire
as Frank James / Bat Fenton
- 1950 I Shot Billy the Kid
as Billy the Kid
- 1949 Red Desert
as Pecos Jones
- 1949 Tough Assignment
as Dan Reilly
- 1949 Square Dance Jubilee
as Don Blake
- 1949 The Dalton Gang
as Larry West
- 1949 Ringside
as Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra"
- 1948 Train to Alcatraz
as Doug Forbes
- 1948 Lightnin' in the Forest
as Stan Martin
- 1948 Madonna of the Desert
as Tony French
- 1948 Slippy McGee
as Slippy McGee
- 1947 That's My Gal
as Benny Novak
- 1946 The Plainsman and the Lady
as Feisty
- 1946 The Last Crooked Mile
as Tom Dwyer
- 1945 The Chicago Kid
as Joe Ferrill
- 1945 Bells of Rosarita
as Don Barry
- 1944 My Buddy
as Eddie Ballinger
- 1944 Outlaws of Santa Fe
as Bob Conroy
- 1944 The Purple Heart
as Lt. Peter Vincent
- 1943 California Joe
as Joe Weldon
- 1943 Canyon City
as Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid
- 1943 The Man from the Rio Grande
as Lee Grant
- 1943 The West Side Kid
as Johnny April
- 1943 Black Hills Express
as Lon Walker
- 1943 Fugitive from Sonora
as Dave Winters / Ted Winters
- 1943 Days of Old Cheyenne
as Clint Ross
- 1943 Carson City Cyclone
as Gilbert Phalen
- 1943 Dead Man's Gulch
as Tennessee Colby
- 1942 The Sundown Kid
as Red Tracy
- 1942 The Traitor Within
as Sam Starr
- 1942 Outlaws of Pine Ridge
as Chips Barrett
- 1942 The Sombrero Kid
as Jerry Holden
- 1942 The Cyclone Kid
as Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson
- 1942 Jesse James, Jr.
as Johnny Barrett
- 1942 Stagecoach Express
as Dave Gregory
- 1942 Arizona Terrors
as Jim Bradley
- 1942 Remember Pearl Harbor
as Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith
- 1941 A Missouri Outlaw
as Cliff Dixon
- 1941 Death Valley Outlaws
as Johnny Edwards
- 1941 Kansas Cyclone
as Jim Randall
- 1941 Desert Bandit
as Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger
- 1941 The Apache Kid
as Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid
- 1941 Two Gun Sheriff
as Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon
- 1941 The Phantom Cowboy
as Jim Lawrence
- 1941 Wyoming Wildcat
as Bill Gannon
- 1940 Texas Terrors
as Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills
- 1940 Frontier Vengeance
as Jim Sanders
- 1940 The Tulsa Kid
as Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid
- 1940 Sailor's Lady
as Second Paymaster
+ 27 more credits
Behind the camera (5)
- 1965 Convict Stage
Writer
- 1954 Jesse James' Women
Producer, Screenplay, Director
- 1950 Train To Tombstone
Story
- 1949 Red Desert
Executive Producer
- 1949 Red Light
Story