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.
Movie | Back Roads | Pete | 1981-03-13 |
Series | Knots Landing | Unknown | 1979-12-27 |
Series | 240-Robert | Unknown | 1979-08-28 |
Movie | Goldie and the Boxer | Radio Announcer | 1979-12-30 |
Movie | Buckstone County Prison | Warden Coley | 1978-07-01 |
Movie | Doctor Dracula | Elliot (as Donald Barry) | 1978-03-02 |
Movie | Hot Lead & Cold Feet | Bartender | 1978-07-05 |
Movie | Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid | Devery's Foreman | 1978-05-26 |
Movie | The Swarm | Pete Harris | 1978-07-14 |
Movie | Hooper | Sheriff | 1978-07-28 |
Movie | The Crash of Flight 401 | Helicopter Pilot | 1978-10-29 |
Movie | Orca | Dock Worker | 1977-07-22 |
Movie | The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West | Marshal | 1976-08-01 |
Movie | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 |
Series | Big John, Little John | Unknown | 1976-09-11 |
Movie | From Noon Till Three | Red Roxy | 1976-08-01 |
Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
Movie | Starsky & Hutch | Doctor in Morgue | 1975-05-01 |
Movie | Blazing Stewardesses | Mike Trask | 1975-06-01 |
Series | Baretta | Unknown | 1975-01-17 |
Movie | Whiffs | Sgt. Post | 1975-10-15 |
Movie | Boss Nigger | (as Don Red Barry) | 1975-08-17 |
Movie | Hustle | Airport Bartender | 1975-12-25 |
Series | Barbary Coast | Unknown | 1975-09-08 |
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Movie | Junior Bonner | Homer Rutledge | 1972-08-02 |
Movie | The Eyes of Charles Sand | Trainer | 1972-02-29 |
Series | The Waltons | Unknown | 1972-09-14 |
Series | Ghost Story | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
Movie | Johnny Got His Gun | Jody Simmons | 1971-08-04 |
Movie | Hunters Are for Killing | Hank Phillips | 1970-03-12 |
Movie | The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Rusty | 1970-04-01 |
Movie | Rio Lobo | Feeny - Bartender (uncredited) | 1970-04-01 |
Movie | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Rev. Zachary Gant | 1968-07-10 |
Series | It Takes a Thief | Airline Captain (as Donald Barry) | 1968-01-09 |
Movie | Bandolero! | Jack Hawkins | 1968-06-01 |
Series | The Outsider | Unknown | 1968-09-18 |
Movie | Shalako | Buffalo | 1968-09-26 |
Series | Land of the Giants | Unknown | 1968-09-22 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Movie | Red Tomahawk | Bly | 1967-01-01 |
Movie | Hostile Guns | Ed Johnson | 1967-07-01 |
Series | Cimarron Strip | Unknown | 1967-09-07 |
Movie | Fort Utah | Harris | 1967-09-01 |
Series | Hondo | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Batman | Unknown | 1966-01-12 |
Series | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | Unknown | 1966-09-17 |
Movie | Alvarez Kelly | Lt. Farrow | 1966-10-06 |
Movie | Fort Courageous | Captain Harvey | 1965-05-01 |
Movie | Convict Stage | Marshal Jethro Karnin | 1965-01-01 |
Movie | Town Tamer | Tex | 1965-07-07 |
Series | The Legend of Jesse James | Unknown | 1965-09-13 |
Movie | Apache Uprising | Henry Belden | 1965-12-29 |
Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Series | Laredo | Unknown | 1965-09-16 |
Series | F Troop | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
Movie | Iron Angel | Reb | 1964-02-01 |
Movie | Law of the Lawless | Red | 1964-05-13 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Series | Mickey | Unknown | 1964-09-16 |
Series | Mr. Novak | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Movie | Twilight of Honor | Judson Elliot | 1963-11-13 |
Series | Sam Benedict | Unknown | 1962-09-15 |
Movie | Buffalo Gun | Murdock | 1961-07-01 |
Movie | Walk Like a Dragon | Cabot | 1960-06-01 |
Movie | Ocean's Eleven | McCoy (uncredited) | 1960-08-10 |
Movie | The Big Operator | Detective Sergeant | 1959-08-01 |
Movie | Warlock | Edward Calhoun (uncredited) | 1959-05-15 |
Series | Laramie | Unknown | 1959-09-15 |
Movie | Frankenstein 1970 | Douglas Row | 1958-07-20 |
Movie | China Doll | MSgt. Hal Foster | 1958-06-06 |
Series | Bronco | Unknown | 1958-09-23 |
Series | Lawman | Unknown | 1958-10-05 |
Movie | Born Reckless | Bill Okie | 1958-11-02 |
Series | Bat Masterson | Unknown | 1958-10-08 |
Movie | Gun Duel In Durango | Larry | 1957-05-01 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
Movie | 7 Men from Now | Clete | 1956-08-04 |
Movie | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Jerry | 1955-12-25 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | Sergeant Preston of the Yukon | Unknown | 1955-09-29 |
Movie | The Twinkle In God's Eye | Dawson | 1955-10-13 |
Movie | Untamed Heiress | 'Spider' Mike Lawrence (as Donald Barry) | 1954-03-31 |
Movie | Jesse James' Women | Jesse James | 1954-09-04 |
Series | Dragnet | Unknown | 1951-12-16 |
Movie | Gunfire | Frank James / Bat Fenton | 1950-08-12 |
Movie | I Shot Billy the Kid | William H. Bonney / Billy the Kid (as Don Barry) | 1950-07-27 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | Train To Tombstone | Len Howard | 1950-09-16 |
Movie | Border Rangers | Bob Standish posing as the Rio Kid (as Don Barry) | 1950-10-05 |
Movie | The Dalton Gang | Larry West | 1949-10-20 |
Movie | Ringside | Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra" | 1949-07-14 |
Movie | Tough Assignment | Dan Reilly | 1949-11-15 |
Movie | Red Desert | Pecos Jones | 1949-12-17 |
Movie | Square Dance Jubilee | Don Blake | 1949-11-11 |
Movie | Madonna of the Desert | Tony French (as Donald Barry) | 1948-02-23 |
Movie | Train to Alcatraz | Doug Forbes (as Donald Barry) | 1948-06-28 |
Movie | The Last Crooked Mile | Tom Dwyer | 1946-08-09 |
Movie | The Plainsman and the Lady | Feisty | 1946-11-11 |
Movie | Bells of Rosarita | Don Barry | 1945-06-19 |
Movie | The Chicago Kid | Joe Ferrill | 1945-06-29 |
Movie | Outlaws of Santa Fe | Bob Conroy | 1944-04-04 |
Movie | My Buddy | Eddie Ballinger (as Donald Barry) | 1944-10-12 |
Movie | Days of Old Cheyenne | Clint Ross | 1943-03-15 |
Movie | Carson City Cyclone | Gilbert Phalen | 1943-03-03 |
Movie | Dead Man's Gulch | Tennessee Colby | 1943-02-12 |
Movie | Fugitive from Sonora | Parson Dave Winters / Ted Winters aka Keeno Phillips | 1943-06-30 |
Movie | The Man from the Rio Grande | Lee Grant | 1943-10-18 |
Movie | California Joe | Joe Weldon | 1943-12-29 |
Movie | Black Hills Express | Lon Walker | 1943-08-15 |
Movie | Canyon City | Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid | 1943-11-24 |
Movie | The West Side Kid | Johnny April (as Donald Barry) | 1943-08-23 |
Movie | Jesse James, Jr. | Johnny Barrett | 1942-03-25 |
Movie | Arizona Terrors | Jim Bradley | 1942-01-13 |
Movie | Remember Pearl Harbor | Pvt. Steve 'Lucky' Smith | 1942-01-02 |
Movie | The Cyclone Kid | Johnny "Cyclone Kid" Dawson | 1942-05-31 |
Movie | Stagecoach Express | Dave Gregory | 1942-03-06 |
Movie | The Sombrero Kid | Jerry Holden | 1942-07-31 |
Movie | The Traitor Within | Sam Starr (as Donald M. Barry) | 1942-12-16 |
Movie | The Sundown Kid | Red Tracy | 1942-12-28 |
Movie | Outlaws of Pine Ridge | Chips Barrett | 1942-10-27 |
Movie | Two Gun Sheriff | Jim "Sundown Kid" McKinnon / Sheriff Bruce McKinnon | 1941-04-09 |
Movie | The Phantom Cowboy | Jim Lawrence | 1941-02-14 |
Movie | The Apache Kid | Pete Dawson aka The Apache Kid | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Wyoming Wildcat | Bill Gannon | 1941-01-06 |
Movie | Desert Bandit | Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger | 1941-05-24 |
Movie | Death Valley Outlaws | Johnny Edwards | 1941-09-26 |
Movie | A Missouri Outlaw | Cliff Dixon | 1941-11-25 |
Movie | Kansas Cyclone | Jim Randall | 1941-06-24 |
Movie | Adventures of Red Ryder | Red Ryder | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | Ghost Valley Raiders | Tim Brandon aka The Tolusa Kid (as Donald Barry) | 1940-03-23 |
Movie | Jack Pot | Bryan (uncredited) | 1940-03-09 |
Movie | One Man's Law | Jack Summers | 1940-06-29 |
Movie | Sailor's Lady | Second Paymaster | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | The Tulsa Kid | Tom Benton aka Tulsa Kid | 1940-08-16 |
Movie | Texas Terrors | Bob Millbourne aka Robert Mills | 1940-11-22 |
Movie | Frontier Vengeance | Jim Sanders | 1940-10-10 |
Movie | Only Angels Have Wings | Tex | 1939-05-15 |
Movie | Calling Dr. Kildare | Collins | 1939-04-28 |
Movie | S.O.S Tidal Wave | Curly Parsons | 1939-06-02 |
Movie | Panama Patrol | Loring | 1939-03-20 |
Movie | Days of Jesse James | Jesse James | 1939-12-20 |
Movie | Wyoming Outlaw | Will Parker | 1939-06-27 |
Movie | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Collins - Intern (uncredited) | 1939-11-24 |
Movie | Saga of Death Valley | Jerry | 1939-11-17 |
Movie | Calling All Marines | 'Blackie' Cross | 1939-09-20 |
Movie | Saleslady | Babcock | 1938-01-27 |
Movie | Think It Over | Henchman | 1938-07-24 |
Movie | Sinners in Paradise | Jessup | 1938-05-19 |
Movie | The Crowd Roars | Pete Mariola | 1938-08-06 |
Movie | The Duke of West Point | Grady | 1938-12-29 |
Movie | Young Dr. Kildare | Dr. Collins (uncredited) | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | When's Your Birthday? | Marty - Gunman (uncredited) | 1937-02-19 |
Movie | The Woman I Love | Michel | 1937-04-15 |
Movie | Dead End | Dr. Flynn, Intern (Uncredited) | 1937-08-27 |
Movie | Navy Blue and Gold | Mason (Southern Institute football player) (uncredited) | 1937-11-19 |
Movie | Night Waitress | Mario Rigo | 1936-12-18 |
Movie | Beloved Enemy | Mike, I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited) | 1936-12-25 |
Movie | Flying Down to Rio | Dancer (uncredited) | 1933-12-22 |
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