Patricia Barry is an American television, film and theater actress. She starred in hundreds of television series from the 1950s to 1980s, often portraying minor characters. Patricia Barry has been nominated for an Emmy award three times. In addition to being busy on stage, she was a renowned philanthropist. The actress lived a long life and passed away at the age of 93.
Patricia Barry is a prolific television actress who has appeared in more than 100 TV series and television films throughout her career. The actress has also starred in several theatrical productions. The actress began her career in the mid-1940s, when the professionals of the world of cinema noticed the outward resemblance of a young girl to Hollywood star Rita Hayworth. The future actress, under her own name, Patricia White, went to participate in the look-alike competition and won it. The Warner Bros film studio signed a contract with an artistic girl, and already in 1946, Patricia made her debut on the big screen.
Patricia Barry's youth
Patricia Barry, née Patricia Allen White, was born on November 16, 1922 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. The father of the future actress worked as a therapist. Patricia graduated from Stevens College in Missouri, and then moved to New York, where she studied theater under the guidance of Swedish actress Maud Adams (twice James Bond's "girlfriend").
Patricia Barry's career in theater and cinema
The first stage experience Patricia began to receive in the summer theater in New Hampshire. In 1945, Barry made her Broadway debut in a short comedy play.
After several impersonal roles in films where Patricia White was credited as "nurse", "student", she finally got the opportunity to embody a full-fledged image on the screen. The first real film work of the aspiring actress was the horror film "The Beast with Five Fingers" in 1947, where the rising star played the role of Clara. This film is one of the classics of American cinema. Lovers of old horrors will remember the scene of the pianist's dead hand crawling along the Italian mansion.
The actress starred under the name Patricia White for four years, but after marriage changed it to Patricia Barry.
In 1950, Barry was invited to participate in one episode about Vincent Van Gogh on the TV series Goodyear Television Theater. Over the next ten years, the American actress appeared in many other television series, such as Theater 90, which aired television versions of the best Broadway plays, or Sunset Strip 77, a six-season crime series.
Particularly successful in Patricia Barry's career was 1964, when the American actress got the opportunity to participate in several successful films: comedy melodrama Don't Send Me Flowers with Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the crime drama Cat with the Whip with Ann-Margret, family comedy with Glenn Ford.
In the same year, Patricia Barry starred as the wife of Jack Klugman's character in Harris vs. the World. However, after the release of the 13th episode, the project was canceled, and Barry had to return to work in other television series. Mostly the actress had supporting roles or completely episodic roles ("Columbo: Review", "Quiet Pier", "Endless Love", etc.).
Patricia Barry has been featured in television films too. In 1970, she landed the role of Felicia in the horror drama Crowhaven Farm. In 1978, she starred in the drama You Cry First with actress Mary Tyler Moore, the plot of which is dedicated to the main character, a journalist with an incurable disease. Two years later, the biographical drama "Gods" was released, where Patricia Barry performed the image of Zelda O'Moor.
Patricia Barry has starred in several episodes of the acclaimed horror series The Twilight Zone.
In 1989, the actress played a lonely elderly woman in the crime melodrama Sea of Love who responds to dating letters. The main male role went to the famous Al Pacino.
The actress's last film work was the 2014 thriller "Delusional" about an insane girl, where she played an aging woman named Annie Walson.
Personal life of Patricia Barry
Since 1950, Patricia Barry has been married to American producer Philip Barry Jr. The couple met while staging a theatrical play by Philip's father.
The couple had two daughters, Miranda Barry and Stephanie Barry. Later, two grandchildren were born.
Philip Barry Jr. died in 1998 at the age of 74. The American actress herself survived her husband by 18 years, and died in Los Angeles on October 11, 2016 at the age of 93.
Patricia Barry was one of the founders of the non-profit society Women in Cinema and its president, which aims to equalize actors and actresses on and off the set. In 1999, Patricia Barry was awarded a Special Achievement in Community Service Award.
In addition to acting, Patricia Barry owned her own business in Southern California to lend fully furnished homes to visiting celebrities and filmmakers.
After the death of Patricia Barry, the house of the American actress was put up for sale and within one month was redeemed for $ 10.3 million. The Barry family has lived in this mansion since 1969, and the building itself was built back in 1937. The home of the southern colonial-style actress had a large foyer, an enclosed terrace, five bedrooms and five bathrooms, two fireplaces, an outdoor swimming pool, a perfect lawn, and tall trees.
