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Barry (2016 film)
Barry (2016 film): Netflix drama directed by Vikram Gandhi, written by Adam Mansbach, starring Devon Terrell as a young Barack Obama at Columbia University in 1981; distinct from the TV series Barry and from Southside with You.
Barry (TV series)
Barry is an HBO dark comedy-drama (2018–2023, four seasons, 32 episodes) co-created by Bill Hader and Alec Berg about hitman Barry Berkman, who follows a target into an acting class; it won 10 Emmys from 55 nominations.
Barry Bostwick
Barry Bostwick (Barry Knapp Bostwick), American actor and singer born 1945 in San Mateo, California; original Broadway Danny Zuko in Grease (1972), Tony winner for The Robber Bridegroom (1977), Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Golden Globe winner for War and Remembrance, and Mayor Randall Winston on Spin City.
Barry Can't Swim
Barry Can't Swim is the stage name of Joshua Mainnie, an Edinburgh-born, London-based Scottish house producer. Known for When Will We Land? (2023 Mercury shortlist), Loner (2025), and the 2026 Atlantic single Return To Bhibo.
Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin, born Leonard Barrie Corbin in Lamesa, Texas, in 1940, is an American character actor with over 200 roles, best known as Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure.
Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer (1935–2022), English comedy writer and comedian from Leeds, wrote for Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies and Bob Hope, and was a panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue from 1972; OBE in 2001.
Barry Dennen
Barry Dennen (1938-2017), American actor and singer; Emcee in the original West End Cabaret and Pontius Pilate in the album, Broadway, and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar; memoirist of Barbra Streisand; video game voice actor.
Barry Diller
Barry Diller (born 1942) is an American media executive: ABC Movie of the Week creator, Paramount Pictures chairman 1974-1984, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company, and longtime chairman of IAC, now People Incorporated, and Expedia Group.
Barry Dunaway
Barry Dunaway (born 1958) is an American rock bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, bassist for .38 Special since the early 2010s and formerly of Yngwie Malmsteen's band (nine albums, four world tours), Survivor, and the Pat Travers Band.
Barry Evans (actor)
Barry Evans, also styled Barry Joseph Evans, was an English actor (1943–1997) who starred as Michael Upton in Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large and as Jeremy Brown in Mind Your Language. Not the EastEnders character.
Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields, 1888–1961), Irish Abbey Theatre character actor and Hollywood star; first Irish Oscar winner, uniquely nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1944), later Michaeleen Óg in The Quiet Man.
Barry Flatman
Barry Flatman, born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, is a Canadian character actor known for Earth: Final Conflict, Saw III, Fargo, voicing X-Men's Vindicator, and 57 episodes as Don Shade on Private Eyes.
Barry Foster (actor)
Barry Foster (John Barry Foster) was an English actor, star of ITV's Van der Valk and Bob Rusk in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972); died 11 February 2002 aged 70 in Guildford while appearing in Art.
Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb (Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, born 1946, Isle of Man) is the Bee Gees' founding singer-songwriter and last surviving brother, known for his falsetto, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 16 US No. 1 songwriting credits, a 2018 knighthood, and the 2021 Greenfields album.
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon (born 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actor, singer, attorney, and Screen Actors Guild president 1988–1995, known for "Nuttin' for Christmas," a Tony-nominated A Thousand Clowns, and voicing Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Barry Hankerson
Barry Hankerson (born 1947) is an American record executive, founder of Blackground Records, and uncle and manager of Aaliyah, whose catalog he controls; known for the 2021 streaming return and ongoing royalty litigation with his son Jomo.
Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries (John Barry Humphries, 1934–2023) was an Australian comedian and satirist, creator and performer of Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson, and Sandy Stone, honored with AO, CBE, and AC and farewelled at a 2023 Sydney Opera House state memorial.
Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins, American filmmaker from Miami and Florida State University graduate, director of Medicine for Melancholy, Oscar-winning Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad, and Mufasa: The Lion King.
Barry John (theatre director)
Barry John, born 1946, is a British-born Indian theater director and teacher who founded Delhi's Theatre Action Group in 1973 and trained actors including Shah Rukh Khan.
Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan (born 1992, Summerhill, Dublin) is an Irish actor known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, The Banshees of Inisherin (BAFTA win, Oscar nomination), and Saltburn; cast as Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes's Beatles films.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer from Baltimore, Maryland, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988) and made the Baltimore films Diner and Avalon.
Barry Livingston
Barry Livingston (born 1953) is an American actor, full name Barry Gordon Livingston, best known as Ernie Douglas on My Three Sons (1963–72); later character actor in Zodiac, Argo, Jersey Boys, and author of The Importance of Being Ernie.
Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez (1945–2020) was an American essayist and short story writer whose works include Of Wolves and Men and Arctic Dreams, which won the National Book Award.
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's 1975 historical drama adapted from Thackeray's 1844 novel, starring Ryan O'Neal as an Irish social climber, famous for candlelit cinematography with NASA Zeiss f/0.7 lenses and four Academy Awards.
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus, born 1943, Brooklyn), American adult-contemporary singer-songwriter; 13 AC No. 1 hits including "Mandy" and "Copacabana," 29 platinum albums, Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner, Las Vegas resident headliner.
Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 1939), American Brill Building songwriter; with wife Cynthia Weil wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "On Broadway", "Somewhere Out There"; Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire (born 1935, Oklahoma City) is an American singer-songwriter, former New Christy Minstrels lead singer, whose 1965 protest hit "Eve of Destruction" topped the Billboard Hot 100; he later became a pioneering contemporary Christian music artist.
Barry Miller (actor)
Barry Miller (Barry Lee Miller, born 1958, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Bobby C. in Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married, and his 1985 Tony-winning Biloxi Blues role.
Barry Morse
Barry Morse (1918-2008), British-Canadian actor of over 3,000 roles, known as Lt. Philip Gerard in The Fugitive and Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999, Shaw Festival director.
Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson (1917-2007), born Haakon Robert Nielsen, was an American stage, film, and TV actor, the first to play James Bond, as American "Jimmy" Bond in CBS's live 1954 Climax! Casino Royale; later Tony-nominated for The Act and Stuart Ullman in The Shining.