Don "Red" Barry
Actor, Film director
1912 – 1980
Who was Don "Red" Barry?
Donald "Red" Barry de Acosta, or more probably Milton Poimboeuf, was an American film and television actor. He was nicknamed "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following Red Ryder, but none reached his previous level of success.
By the 1950s, Barry was a supporting actor instead of playing leads in westerns. Early in 1955, he appeared as the bandit Milt Sharp in an episode of the syndicated series, Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.
Barry played "Clete" in the 1956 western film Seven Men from Now, starring Randolph Scott. He guest starred as Tanner in the 1958 episode "Bullet Proof" of the ABC/Warner Brothers series Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins; he was cast as Arkansas in the 1959 Sugarfoot episode "The Return of the Canary Kid". Barry appeared four times in the ABC/WB western Colt .45. Barry was cast as black-clad gunfighter in a 1961 episode, "Last Stop: Oblivion", of the ABC/WB western series, Maverick with Jack Kelly and fellow guest star Buddy Ebsen. Barry's voice in the television westerns sounded much like that of the character actor Dub Taylor. About this time, he also guest starred on two other ABC/WB dramas, Bourbon Street Beat and The Roaring 20s. He appeared as well in the syndicated crime drama, U.S. Marshal, starring John Bromfield, and the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus.
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- Born
- Jan 11, 1912
Houston - Also known as
- Donald Barry De Acosta
- Don Red Barry
- Donald 'Red' Barry
- Don Barry
- Donald M. Barry
- Donald Red Barry
- Donald Barry
- Donald Berry
- Donald "Red" Barry de Acosta
- Don'Red'Barry
- Spouses
- Peggy Stewart
(1940 - 1944) - Barbara Patin
(1963 - 1980/07/17)
- Peggy Stewart
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 17, 1980
North Hollywood - Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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on July 23, 2013
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