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Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
Born: Aug 29, 1912 in New York City, New York
Died: Jun 06, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Western
Career Highlights: The Bad and the Beautiful, Kung Fu, Strategic Air Command
First Major Screen Credit: High Explosive (1943)
12 Videos for Barry Sullivan
Backstairs at the White House (1979) Take a Hard Ride (1974) Planet of the Vampires (1965)
The Bastard (1978) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) Another Time, Another Place (1958)
Oh, God! (1977) The Candidate (1972) Queen Bee (1955)
Earthquake (1974) The Arrangement (1969) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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Biography:

Actor Barry Sullivan was a theater usher and department store employee at the time he made his first Broadway appearance in 1936. His official film debut was in the 1943 Western Woman of the Town, though in fact Sullivan had previously appeared in a handful of two-reel comedies produced by the Manhattan-based Educational Studios in the late '30s.

A bit too raffish to be a standard leading man, Sullivan was better served in tough, aggressive roles, notably the title character in 1947's The Gangster and the boorish Tom Buchanan in the 1949 version of The Great Gatsby. One of his better film assignments of the 1950s was as the Howard Hawks-style movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

Sullivan continued appearing in movie roles of varying importance until 1978. A frequent visitor to television, Barry Sullivan starred as Sheriff Pat Garrett in the 1960s Western series The Tall Man, and was seen as the hateful patriarch Marcus Hubbard in a 1972 PBS production of Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.