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Donald Barry De Acosta, Donald Barry, Donald 'Red' Barry, Milton Poimboeuf, Donald M. Barry
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1912-01-11
- event Death Date 1980-07-17
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 3.7
- info Birth Place Houston, Texas, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Don 'Red' Barry
5.3
Frankenstein 1970
1958-07-20
6.7
Warlock
1959-05-15
6.2
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968-07-10
5.9
From Noon Till Three
1976-08-01
3
Lightnin' in the Forest
1948-03-25
6.7
Boss Nigger
1975-08-17
6.8
7 Men from Now
1956-08-04
6.1
Orca
1977-07-22
7.5
The Crash of Flight 401
1978-10-29
7
Dead End
1937-08-27
6.1
Flying Down to Rio
1933-12-22
6.3
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955-12-25
6.7
The Magnificent Stranger
1966-08-26
3.4
Blazing Stewardesses
1975-06-01
6
The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
6.5
Walk on the Wild Side
1962-03-21
7.2
Only Angels Have Wings
1939-05-15
6.3
Hooper
1978-07-28
7.5
Johnny Got His Gun
1971-08-04
5.7
Shalako
1968-09-26
6.6
Starsky & Hutch
1975-05-01
4.7
The Last Crooked Mile
1946-08-09
5.5
War Party
1965-03-01
6.3
The Last Mile
1959-02-18
6.4
Rio Lobo
1970-04-01
6.6
Apache Uprising
1965-12-29
6
Donovan's Kid
1979-01-07
4
Doctor Dracula
1978-03-02
6
Train to Alcatraz
1948-06-28
6
Tough Assignment
1949-11-15
7
Think It Over
1938-07-24
5.4
Gun Duel In Durango
1957-05-01
3.8
The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
5.3
Sinners in Paradise
1938-05-19
4.7
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
1976-08-01
7
The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955-10-13
0
One Man's Law
1940-06-29
0
Carson City Cyclone
1943-03-03
3.2
Born Reckless
1958-11-02
6
Iron Angel
1964-02-01
0
California Joe
1943-12-29
5.5
Days of Jesse James
1939-12-20
0
The Chicago Kid
1945-06-29
6.1
Convict Stage
1965-01-01
0
Saleslady
1938-01-27
0
Train To Tombstone
1950-09-16
6.2
Saga of Death Valley
1939-11-17
0
Buckstone County Prison
1978-07-01
0
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976-05-01
5.8
The Big Operator
1959-08-01
4.4
Jesse James' Women
1954-09-04
3
The Plainsman and the Lady
1946-11-11
5.5
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940-06-28
5
Panama Patrol
1939-03-20
6
Junior Bonner
1972-08-02
5.1
Hostile Guns
1967-07-01
4
When's Your Birthday?
1937-02-19
6.5
The Crowd Roars
1938-08-06
0
That's My Gal
1947-05-15
6
Remember Pearl Harbor
1942-01-02
0
The Woman I Love
1937-04-15
4.5
Hunters Are for Killing
1970-03-12
5.6
Back Roads
1981-03-13
5.7
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939-06-02
6.4
Town Tamer
1965-07-07
6.4
Ocean's Eleven
1960-08-10
5.8
Night Waitress
1936-12-18
5.1
Fort Courageous
1965-05-01
6.5
Young Dr. Kildare
1938-10-14
6.1
Beloved Enemy
1936-12-25
6.5
Red Tomahawk
1967-01-01
4
I Shot Billy the Kid
1950-07-27
6.1
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
5.9
Navy Blue and Gold
1937-11-19
5.8
Wyoming Outlaw
1939-06-27
0
Arizona Terrors
1942-01-13
5.6
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939-11-24
0
Death Valley Outlaws
1941-09-26
0
Dead Man's Gulch
1943-02-12
0
Canyon City
1943-11-24
2
Jesse James, Jr.
1942-03-25
6
Untamed Heiress
1954-03-31
6.5
Bandolero!
1968-06-01
0
Calling All Marines
1939-09-20
0
Days of Old Cheyenne
1943-03-15
0
Fugitive from Sonora
1943-06-30
0
A Missouri Outlaw
1941-11-25
0
The Apache Kid
1941-04-11
4.5
Goldie and the Boxer
1979-12-30
2
Undercover with the KKK
1979-10-23
6.3
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970-04-01
5
Walk Like a Dragon
1960-06-01
5
The Swarm
1978-07-14
0
The Man from the Rio Grande
1943-10-18
5
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978-05-26
6
Stagecoach Express
1942-03-06
6.2
Alvarez Kelly
1966-10-06
6
Madonna of the Desert
1948-02-23
0
Red Desert
1949-12-17
0
My Buddy
1944-10-12
0
The Traitor Within
1942-12-16
0
The West Side Kid
1943-08-23
5.3
Jack Pot
1940-03-09
3.6
Fort Utah
1967-09-01
6
The Phantom Cowboy
1941-02-14
8
A Cry For Justice
1979-05-23
0
Border Rangers
1950-10-05
5
Gunfire
1950-08-12
0
The Cyclone Kid
1942-05-31
6
Ghost Valley Raiders
1940-03-23
5
Texas Terrors
1940-11-22
6
Black Hills Express
1943-08-15
6
The Tulsa Kid
1940-08-16
0
Outlaws of Pine Ridge
1942-10-27
0
Wyoming Wildcat
1941-01-06
3
The Sombrero Kid
1942-07-31
0
The Sundown Kid
1942-12-28
0
Frontier Vengeance
1940-10-10
0
Desert Bandit
1941-05-24
6
Two Gun Sheriff
1941-04-09
0
Kansas Cyclone
1941-06-24
5.5
Bells of Rosarita
1945-06-19
0
Outlaws of Santa Fe
1944-04-04
5
The Dalton Gang
1949-10-20
7
Square Dance Jubilee
1949-11-11
0
Buffalo Gun
1961-07-01
6.1
Law of the Lawless
1964-05-13
3
Bridal Bail
1934-02-09
5
Incident on a Dark Street
1973-01-13
5.9
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978-07-05
4.3
Ringside
1949-07-14
7.1
Whiffs
1975-10-15
4
Sailor's Lady
1940-07-05
7.2
China Doll
1958-06-06
0
Slippy McGee
1948-01-15
0
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
1978-02-01
5.3
The Eyes of Charles Sand
1972-02-29
0
Punch and Jody
1974-11-26
2
Partners in Crime
1973-03-24
5.7
Hustle
1975-12-25
6.7
Twilight of Honor
1963-11-13
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
5.8
Cheyenne
1955-09-20
6.9
The Rookies
1972-09-11
5
Bourbon Street Beat
1959-10-05
6.1
F Troop
1965-09-14
8
Little House on the Prairie
1974-09-11
7
The Bionic Woman
1976-01-14
7.3
Batman
1966-01-12
8
The Munsters
1964-09-24
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976-10-03
6.4
Baretta
1975-01-17
7.2
The Fugitive
1963-09-17
5.5
240-Robert
1979-08-28
7.2
Hawkins
1973-03-13
6.6
Land of the Giants
1968-09-22
6.6
Charlie's Angels
1976-09-22
6.8
Knots Landing
1979-12-27
6.8
Big John, Little John
1976-09-11
6.5
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
0
Mickey
1964-09-16
7.1
The Waltons
1972-09-14
7.6
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974-09-13
6.4
Laredo
1965-09-16
7.5
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966-09-17
6
Sam Benedict
1962-09-15
7.5
The Immortal
1970-09-24
7.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14
5.1
Cimarron Strip
1967-09-07
6.9
Daniel Boone
1964-09-24
7.1
Police Story
1973-03-20
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.5
Peter Gunn
1958-09-22
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
7
Petrocelli
1974-09-11
4.8
Bronco
1958-09-23
6.2
Hondo
1967-09-08
5.4
Lawman
1958-10-05
4.2
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
6.3
Bat Masterson
1958-10-08
6.4
Laramie
1959-09-15
5
Barbary Coast
1975-09-08
6.5
Mr. Novak
1963-09-24
6
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955-09-29
4.8
The Legend of Jesse James
1965-09-13
0
The Roaring 20's
1960-10-15
7.1
Ghost Story
1972-09-15
7.1
Ghost Story
1972-09-15
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965-09-17
5
Arrest and Trial
1963-09-15
7
It Takes a Thief
1968-01-09
4.2
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
4.2
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.5
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
8.4
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976-09-21
4.1
Checkmate
1960-09-17
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974-01-18
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
6.5
Dan August
1970-09-23
5.8
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
5.8
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
6.8
Maverick
1957-09-22
6.8
Maverick
1957-09-22
6.8
Maverick
1957-09-22
6.8
Maverick
1957-09-22
6.8
Maverick
1957-09-22
6.6
The Phil Silvers Show
1955-09-20
5
Public Defender
1954-03-11
6.5
Dragnet
1951-12-16
6.5
Dragnet
1951-12-16
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
7.5
The Rockford Files
1974-09-13
4.5
The Dream Merchants
1980-05-12
6.5
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955-10-05
6.2
The Deputy
1959-09-12
7.3
Batman
1966-01-12
7.1
Adam-12
1968-09-21
7
Rawhide
1959-01-09
5.4
Lawman
1958-10-05
5.4
Lawman
1958-10-05
5.4
Lawman
1958-10-05
6
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952-10-03
5
Surfside 6
1960-10-06
5.5
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
5
Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07
5
Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07
6.7
McHale's Navy
1962-10-11
6
Broadside
1964-09-20
6.5
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-09-23
6.5
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-09-23
6.3
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971-09-16
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
8
T.H.E. Cat
1966-09-16
8
T.H.E. Cat
1966-09-16
6.9
Dragnet
1967-01-12
7.2
Starsky & Hutch
1975-09-10
7.3
McMillan and Wife
1971-09-29
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965-09-17
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
7.1
Adam-12
1968-09-21
7.1
Adam-12
1968-09-21
7.1
Adam-12
1968-09-21
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
7.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27
5.2
The Outsider
1968-09-18
