Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
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Cary Guffey (born May 10, 1972) is an American former child actor and financial planner. He is best known for his debut in the role of Barry Guiler in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Cary Guffey is an actor who played Barry Guiler in Spielberg's sci-fi classic. He also appeared in other films and TV shows, but left the entertainment industry at age 13 to pursue a career in finance.
- January 1, 1
- Actor
- Douglasville, Georgia, USA
- Cary Guffey
Cary Guffey was a child actor who starred in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and other films. He later became a financial planner and married a reporter.
- May 10, 1972
- IT WAS INITIALLY A VERY DIFFERENT FILM. Spielberg’s initial story outline involved UFOs and shady government dealings following the Watergate scandal, which became a script entitled “Watch the Skies.”
- IT’S NAMED AFTER LEGITIMATE UFO RESEARCH. Spielberg partly based his idea on the research of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a civilian scientific advisor to Project Blue Book who eventually admitted that 11 percent of the study’s findings about unidentified flying objects could not be explained using science.
- THERE’S A CAMEO FROM THE GODFATHER OF UFO RESEARCH. Hynek, who also served as a technical advisor on the movie, makes an uncredited cameo in the final scene of the movie.
- NOBODY WANTED THE STARRING ROLE. The director first offered the part of Roy Neary to actor Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he said he couldn’t cry on cue, something he saw as essential to the character.
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Sep 3, 2017 · Guffey, who made his film debut with Close Encounters, lived on in cinematic history with the iconic scene of him walking up to a glowing door inside his small Indiana home. Close Encounters is...
Cary Guffey is a former child actor who starred in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and other films. He is also a financial planner and has appeared in documentaries about the making of Close Encounters.
