Ivor Barry
Ivor Barry | |
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Born |
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK | 12 April 1919
Died |
12 December 2006 87) Woodland Hills, California, U.S. | (aged
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1949-1995 |
Ivor Barry (12 April 1919 – 12 December 2006) was a Welsh film and television actor.
Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his acting career. After bit parts in England, he moved to Canada in the early 1950s where he also wrote and adapted scripts for radio as well acting in television. He eventually moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, and made many television and film appearances over the next 25 years.
He played the part of Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet (Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science.
Barry's television appearances included Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, and Highway to Heaven.
He died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, California on 12 December 2006.
Filmography
- Under Capricorn (1949) - 1st Guard in Hall (uncredited)
- Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) - Interviewer
- The King's Pirate (1967) - Cloudsly
- In Enemy Country (1968) - Air Marshal Evelyn
- The Lawyer (1970) - Wyler
- The Andromeda Strain (1971) - Murray (uncredited)
- Herbie Rides Again (1974) - Chauffeur
- Lost in the Stars (1974) - Carmichael
- The Dove (1974) - Kenniston
- The Island at the Top of the World (1974) - The Butler
- To Be or Not to Be (1983) - General Hobbs
- Weird Science (1985) - Henry Donnelly
- Action Jackson (1988) - Stuffy Old Guy
Selected TV Series
- CBC Summer Theatre (1955) - (1 episode) - the bishop
- Seaway (1966) - (2 episodes) – Huberman
- 12 O’Clock High (1966) – (1 episode) – Air Marshal Kingsford
- The Partridge Family (1972) – (1 episode) – Mr. Hensley
- The Streets of San Francisco (1974 - 1977) – (2 episodes) - Raymond Howard/Judge Dudley Cramer
- The Rockford Files (1976) - Cryder
- The A-Team (1983) - (1 episode) - old man in cab
- Matt Houston (1985) - (1 episode) - Lloyd Hutchins
- Highway to Heaven (1984 - 1987) - (3 episodes) - Dr. Erhardt / Parks - Butler / Joseph
External links
- Ivor Barry at Find a Grave
- Ivor Barry on IMDb