Date of birth: 1941-08-28
Place of birth: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
1999-03-25
An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's
1986-05-01
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive an
1982-11-04
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of
1988-03-24
After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River.
2001-06-28
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city witho
1981-02-05
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife
1986-01-01
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Syd
2006-07-27
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The
1980-01-31
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and
1993-09-15
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of
1978-07-29
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dr
1997-04-23
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he an
2001-04-05
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. L
2003-08-14
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local r
2013-08-15
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the
2008-07-23
Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian t
1977-05-05
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
1984-07-19
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to
1999-05-06
Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy
2004-06-01
Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. Whe
2003-11-05
An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.
1986-01-01
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and ec
1994-07-01
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot
1977-12-13
Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of W
1976-12-31
Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his coun
1986-03-18
Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thrill
1988-12-09
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilba
1986-01-01
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a dec
1997-03-28
Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985,
1979-03-01
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the
2011-11-24
Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds o
1987-06-20
After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Aus
1993-02-20
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who
1985-07-14
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market pe
1986-01-01
Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white nat
1978-11-16
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a conti
1976-11-06
Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilit
2010-04-29
A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's inter
1988-02-26
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell'
2008-11-18
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch
1985-01-01
Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.
1985-11-03
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbo
1991-01-01
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confess
2013-01-01
This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is lega
2017-12-17
A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elde
1978-12-05
Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and int
2005-07-29
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her
1982-09-13
Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss,
1979-06-21
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-
1999-01-01
1989-07-18
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed o
1993-01-01
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is as
2017-01-01
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that findi
1980-10-23
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion mod
1997-09-25
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian t
2003-03-16
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking do
1991-09-29
The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until
1983-02-17
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely de
2007-07-02
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by
1988-12-08
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralp
1980-07-24
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness
1978-02-28
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way thin
2006-09-08
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murde
2005-01-30
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It w
1977-01-01
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold
2006-10-26
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Austral
1986-05-13
The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of ni
1993-12-19
Follow the Bishop family through 40 years of Christmases from 1949 to 1989.
2025-06-25
An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded
Thanks to film student Kate Ruth's making-of doco we get an intimate look at egos in crisis, as two