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Back Roads

as Pete

1981
Buckstone County Prison

as Warden Coley

1978
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)

1976
Boss Nigger

as (as Don Red Barry)

1975
Whiffs

as Sgt. Post

1975
The Eyes of Charles Sand

as Trainer

1972
Johnny Got His Gun

as Jody Simmons

1971
Hunters Are for Killing

as Hank Phillips

1987
Convict Stage

as Marshal Jethro Karnin

1965
Fort Courageous

as Captain Harvey

1965
Iron Angel

as Reb

1964
Frankenstein 1970

as Douglas Row

1958
Born Reckless

as Bill Okie

1958
7 Men from Now

as Clete

1956
Jesse James' Women

as Jesse James

1954
Train To Tombstone

as Len Howard (as Don Barry)

1950
I Shot Billy the Kid

as William H. Bonney / Billy the Kid (as Don Barry)

1950
Tough Assignment

as Dan Reilly

1949
The Dalton Gang

as Larry West

1949
Train to Alcatraz

as Doug Forbes (as Donald Barry)

1948
Madonna of the Desert

as Tony French (as Donald Barry)

1948
The Chicago Kid

as Joe Ferrill

1945
The Purple Heart

as Lt. Peter Vincent (as Donald Barry)

1944
My Buddy

as Eddie Ballinger (as Donald Barry)

1944
Carson City Cyclone

as Gilbert Phalen

1943
Dead Man's Gulch

as Tennessee Colby

1943
The West Side Kid

as Johnny April (as Donald Barry)

1943
Remember Pearl Harbor

as Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith

1942
Arizona Terrors

as Jim Bradley

1942
Don Barry Don Barry

Birthday

1912-01-11

Place of Birth

Houston, Texas, USA

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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