Search movies and TV series
Acting
Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. After four years of playing villains and henchmen at various studios, Barry got the role that changed his image: Red Ryder in the Republic Pictures serial Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). Although he had appeared in westerns for two years or so, this was the one that kept him there. 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. Unfortunately, while Barry could in fact be a good actor when he wanted to be -- as he showed in the World War II drama The Purple Heart (1944) -- his "feistiness", combative nature and oversized ego caused him to alienate many of the casts and crews he worked with at Republic (ace serial director William Witney detested him, calling him "the midget", and director John English worked with him once and refused to ever work with him again). Barry made a series of westerns at Republic throughout the 1940s, but by 1950 his career had pretty much come to a halt, and he was reduced to making cheaper and cheaper pictures for bottom-of-the-barrel companies like Lippert and Screen Guild. Barry continued to work and still appeared in westerns up through the 1970s, but they were often in small supporting roles, sometimes unbilled. In 1980 he committed suicide by shooting himself.

Back Roads
as Pete

The Dream Merchants
as Capt. Casey

Goldie and the Boxer
as Radio Announcer

Knots Landing
as Jeremiah Clemmons

Undercover with the KKK
as Ben Wright

240-Robert

A Cry For Justice
as Virgil Hall

Donovan's Kid
as Sheriff at Stagecoach

The Crash of Flight 401
as Helicopter Pilot

Hooper
as Sheriff

Hot Lead & Cold Feet
as Bartender

Buckstone County Prison
as Warden Coley

The Swarm
as Pete Harris

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Devery's Foreman

Doctor Dracula
as Elliot

Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys

CHiPs
as Truck Driver

Orca
as Dock Worker

Quincy, M.E.
as Charlie Turner

Charlie's Angels
as Harry Silvers

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
as Robert Barnes

Big John, Little John
as Lionel P. Crabtree

From Noon Till Three
as Red Roxy

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
as Marshal

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)

The Bionic Woman

Hustle
as Airport Bartender

Whiffs
as Sgt. Post

Barbary Coast

Boss Nigger

Blazing Stewardesses
as Mike Trask

Starsky & Hutch
as Doctor in Morgue

Baretta

Punch and Jody
as Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Tyrell Security Guard

The Rockford Files
as Shorty McCall

Police Woman
as Lt. Bocina

Little House on the Prairie
as Larabee

Petrocelli
as Vern

The Six Million Dollar Man
as Howie

Partners in Crime
as Bartender

Police Story

Hawkins
as Ben

Incident on a Dark Street
as Miles Henderson

Ghost Story
as First Cowboy

The Waltons
as Deputy Sheriff

The Rookies

Junior Bonner
as Homer Rutledge

The Eyes of Charles Sand
as Trainer

Emergency!
as Dave Grogan

McMillan & Wife
as Sam

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Jenkins

Johnny Got His Gun
as Jody Simmons

One More Train to Rob
as Charlie

The Immortal

Dan August
as Ed Gurney

Rio Lobo
as Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
as Rusty

Hunters Are for Killing
as Hank Phillips

Love, American Style
as Sam