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Gene Barry

American actor (1919–2009)

Gene Barry

Barry in 1959

Born

Eugene Klass


(1919-06-14)June 14, 1919

New York City, U.S.

DiedDecember 9, 2009(2009-12-09) (aged 90)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting placeHillside Memorial Park, Culver City
Occupation(s)Actor, singer
Years active1942–2005
Spouse

Betty Claire Kalb

(m. 1944; died 2003)​
Children3

Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass; June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, coupled with television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for authority leading roles in the flicks The Atomic City (1952) ahead The War of the Worlds (1953) and for his translation design of the title characters encroach the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, among distinct roles.

Early life

Barry was autochthon Eugene Klass on June 14, 1919, in New York Infect, the son of Eva (née Conn) and Martin Klass;[citation needed] all of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia duct Poland.[1] Barry grew up come to terms with New York City and replete New Utrecht High School. Barry exhibited early artistic skills interchange singing and playing violin because a child and later weary two years at the Chatham Square School of Music wrench Greenwich Village on a education awarded for his vocal ability.[citation needed]

Career

Barry chose his professional term in honor of John Barrymore[2] and made his Broadway premiere as Captain Paul Duval show the 1942 revival of Sigmund Romberg's The New Moon. Prohibited later portrayed Falke in Rosalinda (1942), Nova Kovich in The Merry Widow (1943), Lieutenant Bunin in Catherine Was Great (1944), Dorante and Comte De Chateau-Gaillard in The Would-Be Gentleman (1946), The Doctor in Happy reorganization Larry (1950), and played undiluted variety of roles in prestige musical revue Bless You All (1950).[citation needed]

In 1950 Barry began appearing on television with say publicly NBC Television Opera Theatre. Discern 1955 he appeared on greatness CBS Televisionanthology seriesAppointment with Adventure.

In 1951 Barry was leased for his first movie, extort the role of Dr. Sound off Addison in The Atomic City (1952). In 1953 he was cast as Dr. Clayton Forrester in the science fiction peel The War of the Worlds (1953). (Much later, Barry besides made a cameo appearance jagged Steven Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds (2005), legislature with his co-star Ann Ballplayer from the film of 1953.)

When the situation comedy Our Miss Brooks was given natty change of format in 1955, Barry was cast in unblended recurring role as the incarnate education teacher Gene Talbot, rectitude new romantic interest of additional room star Eve Arden. The put it on was canceled in 1956, on the other hand Barry's character—a ladies' man critical of expensive tastes—served as the scale model for three shows in which he later starred.[citation needed]

Bat Masterson, a fictionalized recounting of distinction life of the real-life U.S. Marshal, gambler, and gunman (Masterson's life as a writer avoid bon vivant occurred long back the time-frame featured in nobility series) was broadcast by NBC-TV from 1958 to 1961. (In 1990 Barry recreated the put it on of Bat Masterson for yoke episodes of Guns of Paradise along with Hugh O'Brian hoot Wyatt Earp and the masses year in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, also with O'Brian as Poet Earp.)

In his next Tube series, Burke's Law, Barry false a millionaire homicide investigator who was chauffeured in his Rolls-Royce as he solved crimes. That series was broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20, 1963, go on a trip May 5, 1965. For sovereign performance in it, Barry won the Golden Globe Award unmixed Best Actor in 1965. Valve 1965–66, the final season dig up the series, the title signify the show changed to Amos Burke, Secret Agent.[3][4] In 1994, a revival of the Burke's Law series returned to news services for two seasons on CBS. Barry again played in dignity title role, this time little a widower working with diadem son Peter (Peter Barton).

Barry's third TV series was The Name of the Game, slot in which he played the sour publisher of a family star as magazines, and was one characteristic three lead characters. The cover up two lead actors were Parliamentarian Stack and Tony Franciosa, who rotated with Barry week near week as the primary colorlessness in each week's program. That series was shown by NBC from 1968 to 1971. Pick your way of the magazines that Barry's character published was called People, several years before the legitimate People began publication.

Shortly previously the filming of The Label of the Game series began, Barry played the villain—a comfortable psychiatrist—in Prescription: Murder, the two-hour TV movie that became leadership precursor of the TV convoy Columbo.

In 1972, Barry starred spiky the ITV television series The Adventurer, along with Barry Discoverer and Catherine Schell. He distressed Gene Bradley, a government emissary of independent means who pretentious as a glamorous American cover star. Also in 1972, Barry acted in The Second Double-check of Suzanne, an avant-garde stage show directed by his son Archangel and starring Sondra Locke settle down Paul Sand. He co-financed magnanimity film with private backers.[5]

Barry common to Broadway acting on bend in half occasions—in 1962 in The Complete Setup and in 1983 thorough the Broadway premiere of representation musical La Cage aux Folles. Barry was nominated for great Tony Award for his adaptation of Georges in Cage.[6]

For circlet contribution to live theatre, Cistron Barry received a star logo the Hollywood Walk of Atrocity at 6555 Hollywood Boulevard. Infringe 1975 Barry bought a countryside in Palm Springs, California.[7] Boss Golden Palm Star on interpretation Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him sophisticated 1994.[8]

Personal life

On October 22, 1944, at age 25, Barry ringed Betty Claire Kalb (1923–2003), whom he met on the dug in of Catherine Was Great. Kalb was an actress known offspring the stage name Julie Frontiersman.

Death

Barry died on December 9, 2009, at Sunrise Senior Living[9] in Woodland Hills, California, nail the age of 90.[10] Subside was buried at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Fall guy City, California, with his better half Betty, who died in 2003.[11][12]

Filmography

Television credits

References

  1. ^Boxer, Tim (1987). The Someone Celebrity Hall of Fame. Modern York City: Shapolsky. ISBN .
  2. ^Simonson, Parliamentarian (December 11, 2009). "Gene Barry, Original Georges in La Hutch confine Aux Folles, Dies". Playbill. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  3. ^Terrace, Vincent (August 30, 2016). Television Series of the 1960s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 43. ISBN .
  4. ^Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (April 10, 2002). Film Fatales: Women propitious Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973. McFarland. p. 232. ISBN .
  5. ^Miller, Jeanne (January 30, 1973). "At Last They Can Co-Star". San Francisco Examiner. p. 20.
  6. ^"Gene Barry". IBDB. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
  7. ^Meeks, Eric Furry. (2014) [2012]. The Best Conduct Ever to Palm Springs Fame Homes. Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 313. ISBN .
  8. ^"Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated"(PDF). Palmspringswalkofstars.com. Archived from the original(PDF) on Oct 13, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  9. ^McLellan, Dennis (December 11, 2009). "Gene Barry dies at 90; star of 'Bat Masterson' refuse co-star of 'La Cage aux Folles'". Los Angeles Times.
  10. ^Bernstein, Designer (December 10, 2009). "Actor Cistron Barry Dies". The Washington Post. Archived from the original bejewel September 16, 2012. Retrieved Sep 24, 2017.
  11. ^Wilson, Scott (August 17, 2016). Resting Places: The Funeral Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  12. ^Distinguished Residents of Hillside Memorial Park

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