Barry Sullivan
Known for Acting · 178 credits
- Born
- 1912-08-29
- Died
- 1994-06-06
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Бэрри Салливан · Patrick Barry Sullivan
Biography
Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television.
One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas. Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand. In 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own and replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint. Unfortunately, Sullivan only lasted two episodes before the show was cancelled, and then resurrected five weeks later with Vincent Price once again playing the starring role.
Sullivan's first starring TV show was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957, as secret agent Ken Thurston, the role Herbert Marshall originally portrayed before the microphone. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the adventure/drama television series Harbormaster. He played a commercial ship's captain, David Scott, and Paul Burke played his partner, Jeff Kittridge, in five episodes of the series, which aired first on CBS and then ABC under the revised title Adventure at Scott Island.
In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the western television series The Tall Man (although the series ran for seventy-five half-hour episodes, the one in which Garrett kills Billy was never filmed). Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as John Chisum, but his scene was excised from the release print (though later restored to the film). He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. In additional to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, which aired on NBC on Monday, alternating with Perry Como), during the 1966-1967 season. Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride.
Known For
TV Shows (74)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Ironside
1967
Perry Mason
1957
as Ken Kramer
The Love Boat
1977
as Phillip Shaffer
Bonanza
1959
as Attorney Dayton Fuller / Mark Burdette
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Frederick Holbrook
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Paul Sampson
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Alex Lowell
Fantasy Island
1978
as Prof. Neville Marlowe
Climax!
1954
as Dr. Donald Carter / Dr. Edwards
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Morgan Hilliard
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Dr. Herbert Stone
Mannix
1967
as Victor Fortune
Studio One
1948
as Michael Norman / Steve Burke / Edward Roberts
The Virginian
1962
as Frank Dawson / John Springfield
Charlie's Angels
1976
as DeMargeran
Run for Your Life
1965
as Sheriff Trumbell
Cannon
1971
12 O'Clock High
1964
The High Chaparral
1967
as Dan Casement
The Bionic Woman
1976
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Raney Benson / Jed Lorimer / Clint Shannon
Route 66
1960
Ben Casey
1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mark Robeson
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Gordon McKenna / Jason Craig
The Tall Man
1960
as Pat Garrett
McCloud
1970
as Gen. Ralph Touhy
Night Gallery
1970
as Dr. Simsich
Medical Center
1969
as Professor Tink Polk
McMillan & Wife
1971
as Walt Harmon
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Marty Wallach / Breitbach / Chris 'Ace' Bane / Murray Brennan
The Name of the Game
1968
as Creston Collins / Dane Bigelow
That Girl
1966
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Maj. Victor Hanley
It Takes a Thief
1968
as Gen. Wiley
Police Story
1973
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Dr. Robert Kingsley
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Grant Chase
Vega$
1978
Harry O
1974
Startime
1959
as Jules
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jeff Foster / Dan
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Richard Bradley
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Miles Calman
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Blaine Chandler / Steve McCoy
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Walter Franz
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
as Sen. Paxton
The Great Adventure
1963
as William Ralston / E.J. Edwards
The Loner
1965
as The Doctor
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Rod
The Sixth Sense
1972
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
Sam Benedict
1962
as Doug Stover
The Immortal
1970
The Invisible Man
1975
as Lionel Parks
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Walter Franz
Movies (104)
Earthquake
1974
as Dr. Willis Stockle
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Chisum
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
as Link Ferris
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Fred Amiel
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Col. Bill Fowler
Seven Ways from Sundown
1960
as Jim Flood
A Volta do Besouro Verde
1940
as Thug in Car's Back Seat
Buckskin
1968
as Chaddock
Texas Lady
1955
as Chris Mooney
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Chasen
Caravans
1978
as Richardson
The Maverick Queen
1956
as Jeff Younger
Strategic Air Command
1955
as Rocky Samford
The Great Gatsby
1949
as Tom Buchanaan
Planet of the Vampires
1965
as Captain Mark Markary
Jeopardy
1953
as Doug Stilwin
Oh, God!
1977
as Bishop Reardon
Night Gallery
1969
as Dr. Frank Heatherton
Cause for Alarm!
1951
as George Z. Jones
The Arrangement
1969
as Chet Collier (uncredited)
The Outriders
1950
as Jesse Wallace
Man in the Middle
1964
as General Kempton
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969
as Calvet
And Now Tomorrow
1944
as Jeff Stoddard
Stage to Thunder Rock
1964
as Sheriff Horne
Light in the Piazza
1962
as Noel Johnson
Violent Naples
1976
as 'O' Generale
The Human Factor
1975
as Edmonds
The Washington Affair
1977
as Walter Nicholson
Take a Hard Ride
1975
as Kane
An American Dream
1966
as Police Lt. G. Roberts
Her Twelve Men
1954
as Richard Y. Oliver, Sr.
Another Time, Another Place
1958
as Carter Reynolds
The Immigrants
1978
as Grant Whittier
Queen Bee
1955
as Avery "Beauty" Phillips
Payment on Demand
1951
as David Anderson Ramsey
Any Number Can Play
1949
as Tycoon
China Venture
1953
as Cmdr. Bert Thompson
The Gangster
1947
as Shubunka
How to Steal the World
1968
as Dr. Robert Kingsley
Shark
1969
as Mallare
It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Orville Benton
Cry of the Hunted
1953
as Lieutenant Tunner
Savage!
1973
as Judge Daniel Stern
Nightmare at Ground Zero
1958
as Daniel Joyce
The Hoaxters
1952
as Narrator (voice)
The Miami Story
1954
as Mick Flagg
Survival
1976
House on Greenapple Road
1970
as Chief Frank Untermyer
Grounds for Marriage
1951
as Chris Bartlett
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
as Tom Horn
Yuma
1971
as Nels Decker
The Magician
1973
as Joseph Baker
Dates and Nuts
1937
as Collegian
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
as Paul Berten
Framed
1947
as Steve Price
Stalked
1968
as Narrator
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
as Mike Tracy
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
as Paul Elcott
Mr. Imperium
1951
as Paul Hunter
The Unknown Man
1951
as Joe Bucknor
My Blood Runs Cold
1965
as Julian Merriday
Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
as Ted Dalton
No Questions Asked
1951
as Steve Keiver
Julie
1956
as Cliff Henderson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
as Griff Bonnell (archive footage)
Smart Woman
1948
as Frank McCoy
The Purple Gang
1959
as William P. Harley
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Lee Gorrance
Lady in the Dark
1944
as Dr. Brooks
Tension
1949
as Lt. Collier Bonnabel
Wolf Larsen
1958
as Wolf Larsen
Johnny Belinda
1967
as Black MacDonald
Duffy's Tavern
1945
as Danny Murphy
The Woman of the Town
1943
as King Kennedy
Rainbow Island
1944
as Ken Masters
Harlow
1965
as Marino Bello
Intimacy
1966
as Walter Nicholson
Forty Guns
1957
as Griff Bonell
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
1964
as Vance Pierson
Casino
1980
as Sam Fletcher
The Immortal
1969
as Jordan Braddock
Loophole
1954
as Mike Donovan
Letters from Three Lovers
1973
as Joshua
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972
as Dillon
This Savage Land
1969
as Benjamin Pride
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
1957
as Hard Boiled Harry
The Secret of Lost Valley
1980
as Dr. Seldon
Hurricane
1974
as Hank Stoddard
Suspense
1946
as Joe Morgan
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
The Way to the Gold
1957
as Marshal Hannibal
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
Playgirl
1954
as Mike Marsh
Inside Straight
1951
as Johnny Sanderson
Dime a Dance
1937
as Sailor
High Explosive
1943
as Mike Douglas
Cannon
1971
as Calhoun
Ain't No Time for Glory
1957
as Self - Host
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
as Dean Acheson
Another Part of the Forest
1972
as Marcus Hubbard
No Room to Run
1977
as Garth Kingswood
Grand Jury
1977
as Don Bentine
The Price
1971
as Walter Franz
About Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television. One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in Th… With 178 credits spanning from 1937 to 2002, Barry Sullivan has appeared in 104 films and 74 TV shows.
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Most Popular Barry Sullivan Movies
- Earthquake (1974) — as Dr. Willis Stockle
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) — as Chisum
- Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) — as Link Ferris
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) — as Fred Amiel
- A Gathering of Eagles (1963) — as Col. Bill Fowler
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