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Jul 19, 1980 · HOLLYWOOD (UPI) July 18--Donald (Red) Barry, the actor who rode across movie screens as the Red Ryder in the 1940's serial and went on to appear in a host of television shows, shot and killed...
Credits (text only) Hide Actor (261 credits) 1983 Doctor Dracula. Elliot (as Donald Barry) 1981 Back Roads. Pete. 1980 The Dream Merchants (TV Mini Series) Capt. Casey. - Episode #1.2 (1980) ...
Don "Red" Barry, also known as Red Barry 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 with Noah Beery Sr.; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane.
A football star in his high school and college days, Donald Barry forsook an advertising career in favor of a stage acting job with a stock company. This barnstorming work led to movie bit parts, the first of which was in RKO's Night Waitress (1936).
Don "Red" Barry was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, "Red" Barry appeared in such films as "Night Waitress" (1936), the Paul Muni action...
Don "Red" Barry was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, "Red" Barry appeared in such films as "Night Waitress" (1936), the Paul Muni action flick "The Woman I Love" (1937) and the drama "Sinners in Paradise" (1938) with Madge Evans.
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.
