Don 'Red' 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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Back Roads
as Pete
Undercover with the KKK
as Ben Wright
Hooper
as Sheriff
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
as Bartender
The Swarm
as Pete Harris
Doctor Dracula
as Elliot
Orca
as Dock Worker
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
as Marshal
From Noon Till Three
as Red Roxy
Hustle
as Airport Bartender
Boss Nigger
as ผลงานการแสดง
Blazing Stewardesses
as Mike Trask
Starsky & Hutch
as Doctor in Morgue
Punch and Jody
as Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz
Incident on a Dark Street
as Miles Henderson
Junior Bonner
as Homer Rutledge
Johnny Got His Gun
as Jody Simmons
One More Train to Rob
as Charlie
Rio Lobo
as Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)
Shalako
as Buffalo
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Rev. Zachary Gant
Bandolero!
as Jack Hawkins
Red Tomahawk
as Bly