
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 | 240-Robert | Unknown | 1979-08-28 |
Series | Knots Landing | Unknown | 1979-12-27 |
Movie | Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid | Devery's Foreman | 1978-05-26 |
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 | Hooper | Sheriff | 1978-07-28 |
Movie | The Swarm | Pete Harris | 1978-07-14 |
Movie | Orca: The Killer Whale | Dock Worker | 1977-07-22 |
Series | CHiPs | Unknown | 1977-09-15 |
Movie | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 |
Series | The Bionic Woman | Unknown | 1976-01-14 |
Movie | From Noon Till Three | Red Roxy | 1976-08-13 |
Series | Quincy, M.E. | Unknown | 1976-10-03 |
Series | Big John, Little John | Unknown | 1976-09-11 |
Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
Movie | Blazing Stewardesses | Trask | 1975-06-01 |
Series | Baretta | Unknown | 1975-01-17 |
Movie | Boss Nigger | (as Don Red Barry) | 1975-08-17 |
Series | Barbary Coast | Unknown | 1975-09-08 |
Series | Petrocelli | Unknown | 1974-03-16 |
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Police Woman | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Movie | Incident on a Dark Street | Miles Henderson | 1973-01-13 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Series | The Rookies | Unknown | 1972-09-11 |
Series | Emergency! | Unknown | 1972-01-22 |
Movie | Junior Bonner | Homer Rutledge | 1972-08-02 |
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 |
Series | The Immortal | Unknown | 1970-09-24 |
Series | It Takes a Thief | Airline Captain (as Donald Barry) | 1968-01-09 |
Movie | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Rev. Zachary Gant | 1968-07-10 |
Movie | Shalako | Buffalo | 1968-11-06 |
Series | The Outsider | Unknown | 1968-09-18 |
Series | Land of the Giants | Unknown | 1968-09-22 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
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 (as Donald Barry) | 1965-07-07 |
Series | The Legend of Jesse James | Unknown | 1965-09-13 |
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 (as Donald Barry) | 1964-05-13 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Series | Mickey | Unknown | 1964-09-16 |
Series | The Munsters | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | Arrest and Trial | Unknown | 1963-09-15 |
Series | Mr. Novak | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Movie | Walk on the Wild Side | Dockery | 1962-03-20 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Series | Sam Benedict | Unknown | 1962-09-15 |
Movie | Buffalo Gun | Murdock | 1961-07-01 |
Movie | Walk Like a Dragon | Cabot | 1960-06-01 |
Series | Surfside 6 | Unknown | 1960-10-06 |
Series | The Roaring 20's | Unknown | 1960-10-15 |
Movie | The Last Mile | Drake (as Donald Barry) | 1959-02-18 |
Movie | The Big Operator | Detective Sergeant | 1959-08-01 |
Series | Laramie | Unknown | 1959-09-15 |
Series | Bourbon Street Beat | Unknown | 1959-10-05 |
Series | Bronco | Unknown | 1958-09-23 |
Movie | Frankenstein 1970 | Douglas Row | 1958-07-20 |
Series | Peter Gunn | Unknown | 1958-09-22 |
Series | Lawman | Unknown | 1958-10-05 |
Series | Bat Masterson | Unknown | 1958-10-08 |
Movie | Born Reckless | Bill Okie | 1958-11-02 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Series | Have Gun – Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
Movie | Gun Duel In Durango | Larry | 1957-05-01 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
Series | Sugarfoot | Unknown | 1957-09-17 |
Movie | Seven Men from Now | Clete | 1956-08-04 |
Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Movie | The Twinkle In God's Eye | Dawson | 1955-10-13 |
Series | Sergeant Preston of the Yukon | Unknown | 1955-09-29 |
Movie | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Jerry | 1955-12-25 |
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 | Border Rangers | Bob Standish posing as the Rio Kid (as Don Barry) | 1950-10-05 |
Movie | Gunfire | Frank James / Bat Fenton (as Don Barry) | 1950-08-12 |
Movie | I Shot Billy the Kid | William H. Bonney / Billy the Kid (as Don Barry) | 1950-07-27 |
Movie | Train To Tombstone | Len Howard (as Don Barry) | 1950-09-16 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | Square Dance Jubilee | Don Blake (as Don Barry) | 1949-11-11 |
Movie | Ringside | Mike O'Hara, "King Cobra" | 1949-07-14 |
Movie | Tough Assignment | Dan Reilly (as Don Barry) | 1949-11-15 |
Movie | Red Desert | Pecos Jones (as Don Barry) | 1949-12-17 |
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 Plainsman and the Lady | Feisty | 1946-11-11 |
Movie | The Last Crooked Mile | Tom Dwyer (as Donald Barry) | 1946-08-09 |
Movie | Bells of Rosarita | Don Barry (as Donald Barry) | 1945-06-15 |
Movie | The Chicago Kid | Joe Ferrill (as Donald Barry) | 1945-06-29 |
Movie | The Purple Heart | Lt. Peter Vincent (as Donald Barry) | 1944-02-25 |
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 | Black Hills Express | Lon Walker | 1943-08-15 |
Movie | Canyon City | Terry Reynolds posing as the Nevada Kid | 1943-11-24 |
Movie | California Joe | Lt. Joe Weldon | 1943-12-29 |
Movie | The West Side Kid | Johnny April (as Donald Barry) | 1943-08-23 |
Movie | Stagecoach Express | Dave Gregory | 1942-03-06 |
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 | Outlaws of Pine Ridge | Chips Barrett | 1942-10-27 |
Movie | The Cyclone Kid | Johnny Dawson aka Cyclone Kid | 1942-05-31 |
Movie | The Traitor Within | Sam Starr (as Donald M. Barry) | 1942-12-16 |
Movie | The Sundown Kid | Red Tracy aka Red Brennan | 1942-12-28 |
Movie | The Sombrero Kid | Jerry Holden - aka Jerry Clancy | 1942-07-31 |
Movie | Two Gun Sheriff | Jim McKinnon the Sundown Kid / 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 | Kansas Cyclone | Jim Randall | 1941-06-24 |
Movie | A Missouri Outlaw | Cliff Dixon | 1941-11-25 |
Movie | Death Valley Outlaws | Johnny Edwards | 1941-09-26 |
Movie | Adventures of Red Ryder | Red Ryder | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | Jack Pot | Bryan (uncredited) | 1940-03-09 |
Movie | Ghost Valley Raiders | Tim Brandon aka The Tolusa Kid (as Donald Barry) | 1940-03-23 |
Movie | One Man's Law | Jack Summers | 1940-06-29 |
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 | Panama Patrol | Loring | 1939-03-20 |
Movie | S.O.S Tidal Wave | Don 'Red' Barry | 1939-06-02 |
Movie | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Collins - Intern | 1939-11-24 |
Movie | Days of Jesse James | Jesse James | 1939-12-20 |
Movie | Wyoming Outlaw | Will Parker | 1939-06-27 |
Movie | Saga of Death Valley | Jerry | 1939-11-17 |
Movie | Calling All Marines | 'Blackie' Cross | 1939-09-20 |
Movie | Sinners in Paradise | Jessup | 1938-05-19 |
Movie | Saleslady | Babcock | 1938-01-27 |
Movie | Think It Over | Henchman | 1938-07-24 |
Movie | The Duke Of West Point | Grady | 1938-12-29 |
Movie | Young Dr. Kildare | Dr. Collins | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | The Crowd Roars | Pete Mariola | 1938-08-06 |
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) | 1937-11-19 |
Movie | Night Waitress | Mario Rigo (as Donald Barry) | 1936-12-18 |
Movie | Beloved Enemy | Mike - I.R.A. Patriot | 1936-12-25 |
Movie | Flying Down to Rio | Dancer (uncredited) | 1933-12-22 |