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