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Tony Barry

Date of birth: 1941-08-28

Place of birth: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Known for: Acting

Also known as:

Tony Barry

Biography

Tony Barry (born 28 August 1941) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.

Movie Credits

Paperback Hero
3

Paperback Hero

1999-03-25

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's

Frog Dreaming
2.8

Frog Dreaming

1986-05-01

American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive an

We of the Never Never
3

We of the Never Never

1982-11-04

Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of

The Man From Snowy River II
3.5

The Man From Snowy River II

1988-03-24

After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River.

Mullet
2.6

Mullet

2001-06-28

Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city witho

Goodbye Pork Pie
3.4

Goodbye Pork Pie

1981-02-05

Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife

I Own the Racecourse
0

I Own the Racecourse

1986-01-01

A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Syd

Solo
2.8

Solo

2006-07-27

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The

Beyond Reasonable Doubt
3.3

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

1980-01-31

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and

Jack Be Nimble
2.5

Jack Be Nimble

1993-09-15

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of

Newsfront
2.8

Newsfront

1978-07-29

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dr

The Last of the Ryans
0

The Last of the Ryans

1997-04-23

Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he an

La spagnola
2.7

La spagnola

2001-04-05

Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. L

The Night We Called It a Day
2.4

The Night We Called It a Day

2003-08-14

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local r

Mystery Road
3.1

Mystery Road

2013-08-15

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the

The Ballad of Betty & Joe
0

The Ballad of Betty & Joe

2008-07-23

Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian t

The Picture Show Man
3.3

The Picture Show Man

1977-05-05

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

The Settlement
0

The Settlement

1984-07-19

Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to

Fresh Air
1

Fresh Air

1999-05-06

Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy

The Widower
0

The Widower

2004-06-01

Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. Whe

Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
0

Lennie Cahill Shoots Through

2003-11-05

An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.

Pallet on the Floor
2.5

Pallet on the Floor

1986-01-01

A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and ec

The Last Tattoo
2.7

The Last Tattoo

1994-07-01

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot

The Mango Tree
0

The Mango Tree

1977-12-13

Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of W

Break of Day
0.5

Break of Day

1976-12-31

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his coun

The Surfer
2.5

The Surfer

1986-03-18

Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thrill

Never Say Die
1.9

Never Say Die

1988-12-09

Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilba

Platypus Cove
0

Platypus Cove

1986-01-01

After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a dec

The Rainbow Warrior
2.5

The Rainbow Warrior

1997-03-28

Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985,

The Odd Angry Shot
3

The Odd Angry Shot

1979-03-01

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the

Rest for the Wicked
3.3

Rest for the Wicked

2011-11-24

Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds o

Initiation
2.5

Initiation

1987-06-20

After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Aus

Absent Without Leave
3.5

Absent Without Leave

1993-02-20

In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who

The Coca-Cola Kid
2.7

The Coca-Cola Kid

1985-07-14

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market pe

BabaKiueria
3.3

BabaKiueria

1986-01-01

Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white nat

Little Boy Lost
2.5

Little Boy Lost

1978-11-16

The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a conti

The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
0

The Haunting of Hewie Dowker

1976-11-06

Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilit

Home by Christmas
1.9

Home by Christmas

2010-04-29

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's inter

Shame
3

Shame

1988-02-26

Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell'

Australia
3.3

Australia

2008-11-18

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch

Keiron: The First Voyager
0

Keiron: The First Voyager

1985-01-01

Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.

Archer's Adventure
2.5

Archer's Adventure

1985-11-03

During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbo

Old Scores
3

Old Scores

1991-01-01

Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confess

One Answer to Cancer
5

One Answer to Cancer

2013-01-01

This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is lega

Grace
0

Grace

2017-12-17

A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elde

Puzzle
0

Puzzle

1978-12-05

Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and int

Lady Vengeance
3.8

Lady Vengeance

2005-07-29

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her

Dead Easy
3.3

Dead Easy

1982-09-13

Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss,

Demolition
1.5

Demolition

1979-06-21

When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-

Change Of Heart
2

Change Of Heart

1999-01-01

Shadow of the Cobra
3.5

Shadow of the Cobra

1989-07-18

Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed o

Typhon's People
0

Typhon's People

1993-01-01

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is as

Nobody's Child
0

Nobody's Child

2017-01-01

Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that findi

Hard Knocks
0

Hard Knocks

1980-10-23

A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion mod

Doing Time for Patsy Cline
3.1

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

1997-09-25

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian t

BlackJack
3.5

BlackJack

2003-03-16

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking do

Rose Against the Odds
0

Rose Against the Odds

1991-09-29

The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until

Midnite Spares
3

Midnite Spares

1983-02-17

After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely de

Cross Life
0

Cross Life

2007-07-02

Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
3

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

1988-12-08

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralp

The Earthling
3.1

The Earthling

1980-07-24

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness

The Irishman
0

The Irishman

1978-02-28

Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way thin

The Silence
3

The Silence

2006-09-08

A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murde

Hell Has Harbour Views
2.3

Hell Has Harbour Views

2005-01-30

Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It w

Wild Man
0

Wild Man

1977-01-01

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold

Gone
2.5

Gone

2006-10-26

A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Austral

Two Friends
3

Two Friends

1986-05-13

The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of ni

Joyful and Triumphant
0

Joyful and Triumphant

1993-12-19

Follow the Bishop family through 40 years of Christmases from 1949 to 1989.

Remember Belsen
0

Remember Belsen

2025-06-25

An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded

Almost
0

Almost

Thanks to film student Kate Ruth's making-of doco we get an intimate look at egos in crisis, as two