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Ivor Barry
Publicity Photo of Ivor Barry
Born	(1919-04-12)12 April 1919 Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
Died	12 December 2006(2006-12-12) (aged 87) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1949-1995

Ivor Barry (12 April 1919 – 12 December 2006) was a Welsh film and television actor.

Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his acting career. After bit parts in England, he moved to Canada in the early 1950s where he also wrote and adapted scripts for radio as well acting in television. He eventually moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, and made many television and film appearances over the next 25 years.

He played the part of Wyatt ( Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet ( Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science.

Barry's television appearances included Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, Punky Brewster, and Highway to Heaven.

He died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on 12 December 2006, aged 87. ^[1]

Filmography

• Under Capricorn (1949) – 1st Guard in Hall (uncredited)
• Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) – Interviewer
• The King's Pirate (1967) – Cloudsly
• The Scorpio Letters (1967) – Rt. Hon. John Murney
• In Enemy Country (1968) – Air Marshal Evelyn
• The Lawyer (1970) – Wyler
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) – Murray (uncredited)
• Carola (TV – 1973) – Parmentier
• Herbie Rides Again (1974) – Chauffeur
• Lost in the Stars (1974) – Carmichael
• The Dove (1974) – Kenniston
• The Island at the Top of the World (1974) – The Butler
• To Be or Not to Be (1983) – General Hobbs
• Weird Science (1985) – Henry Donnelly
• Action Jackson (1988) – Stuffy Old Guy

Selected TV series

• CBC Summer Theatre (1955) – (1 episode) – the bishop
• On Camera (1957) – (1 episode) – Duke
• A Midsummer Theatre (1958) – (1 episode) – role unknown
• First Performance (1955 – 1959) – (2 episodes) – role unknown
• The Unforeseen (1958 – 1960) – (6 episode) – Roles Unknown
• General Motors Theatre (1956 – 1960 ) – (20 episodes) – different character in each episode
• Hudson's Bay (1959) – (3 episode) – Roger Phipps/The Director/The Governor
• R.C.M.P. (1960) – (1 episode) – Lee Fletcher
• First Person (1960 – 1961 ) – (2 episode) – unknown role/Prince of Milan
• Festival ( 1960 – 1967) – (12 episodes) – various characters
• Quest (1962 – 1963) – (4 episode) – unknown role/Professor Bjoernson/unknown role
• The Forest Rangers (1963) – (1 episode) – Professor Black
• Scarlett Hill (1963) – (2 episode) – Elston/Walter Pendleton
• Playdate (1962 – 1964) – (6 episode) – various roles
• Moment of Truth (1964) – (unknown episode) – Dr. Russell Wingate
• Seaway (1966) – (2 episodes) – Huberman
• Laredo (1966) – (1 episode) – Count Frollo
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) – (1 episode) – Freuchen-Nagy
• Run for Your Life (1966) – (1 episode) – Dr. McEwen
• 12 O’Clock High (1966) – (1 episode) – Air Marshal Kingsford
• Daniel Boone (1966 – 1969) – (4 episodes) – President Washington/British Commandant/Commodore Morrison/Hamilton
• Bonanza (1966-1972) – (2 episodes) – Morgan / Preacher
• The Flying Nun (1967) – (1 episode) – Bishop Dillion
• Love on a Rooftop (1967) – (1 episode) – Dean Claridge
• Bewitched (1971) – (2 episodes) – Chamberlain
• The Partridge Family (1972) – (1 episode) – Mr. Hensley
• The Streets of San Francisco (1974 – 1977) – (2 episodes) – Raymond Howard/Judge Dudley Cramer
• Hawaii Five-O (1974) – (1 episode) – S.N. Savage/Dempster
• The Rockford Files (1976) – Cryder
• Barnaby Jones (1978) – (1 episode) – Dr. Kirby
• Father Murphy (1982) – (1 episode) – Butler
• The A-Team (1983) – (1 episode) – old man in cab
• Matt Houston (1985) – (1 episode) – Lloyd Hutchins
• Hotel (1985 – 1986) – (2 episodes) – Byron Singer/Alan Mahoney
• Highway to Heaven (1984 – 1987) – (3 episodes) – Dr. Erhardt / Parks – Butler / Joseph
• Jake and the Fatman (1988) – (1 episode) – Edward

References

External links

• Ivor Barry at IMDb