Barry Primus

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Barry Primus (born February 16, 1938 in New York City ) is an American actor in stage, film and television.

Live and act

Primus attended Bennington College and then the City College of New York . He took his first acting steps at the theater, where he was performed, beginning in May 1959 with The Nervous Set at the Broadway stage at Henry Miller's Theater, in the plays The King and the Duke, The Changeling, Henry IV., The Creation , among others of the World and Other Business, Indians, The Price and Teibele and the Demon . The Lincoln Center Repertory became an important stage for him , but Primus also played at other venues, such as the Arena Stage Theater in Washington, DC or the Odyssey Theater Ensemble in Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the 1960s, there were also countless orders from television and later also from the cinema. In the next five and a half decades Primus was given an abundance of more or less major supporting roles in which he embodied the most varied of characters: he played police officers as well as doctors, lawyers as well as state representatives and petty crooks as well as professors; once the young Hermann Göring and once even himself. Barry Primus worked several times with Robert DeNiro , whom he won in 1991 to direct his only film, the comedy drama Mistress, co-produced by De Niro .

As a member of the Actors Studio , Barry Primus has repeatedly given acting classes at the American Film Institute , the Lee Strasberg Theater and UCLA , has run his own courses at Loyola Marymount University and Columbia University and has stayed well into the new millennium despite his intense filming and television activity still active as a stage actor. The artist has been married to the (former) choreographer Julia Arenal for over half a century.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 2001. Quigley Publishing Company, Larchmont, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-900610-67-7 , p. 337.

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personal data
SURNAME Primus, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor in stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States