Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan (born August 29, 1912 in New York City , † June 6, 1994 in Sherman Oaks , California ) was an American actor .
life and career
Sullivan began his career as a stage actor on Broadway in the 1930s . In 1937 he played a small role in his first Hollywood film . He was never one of the big stars in his career, but played in over 100 films by the 1980s. He was a popular actor, especially as a character actor in first-class supporting roles. With the beginning of the television era in the 1950s, he appeared in numerous television series. He played his most famous roles in 1952 under the direction of Vincente Minnelli as a film director in The Bad and the Beautiful with Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner , and in 1957 in Samuel Fuller's Avantgarde - Western Forty Rifles with Barbara Stanwyck .
The Mirror described Sullivan in his obituary as follows: “His face looked like a blow from a fist had shaped it like a hammer on armor, and his eyes had narrowed so that no one could see what was going on. He wasn't a man for psychological subtleties, but a good hero for those directors who painted their films with rough lines or bright colors in their fifties ... "
Filmography (selection)
- 1943: The Woman of the Town
- 1944: A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
- 1946: Suspense
- 1949: The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
- 1949: Any Number Can Play
- 1949 stretched to breaking point (Tension)
- 1951: My husband wants to get married (Grounds for Marriage)
- 1951: The Ambitious (Payment on Demand)
- 1952: City of Illusions (The Bad and the Beautiful)
- 1953: Scream of the Haunted ( Cry of the Hunted )
- 1953: Seconds of Fear ( Jeopardy )
- 1954: Her Twelve Men (Her Twelve Men)
- 1955: Marriage in Shackles (Queen Bee)
- 1955: In a secret matter of command (Strategic Air Command)
- 1956: Murder in the Clouds (Julie)
- 1957: Massacre (Dragoon Wells Massacre)
- 1957: Forty Guns (Forty Guns)
- 1958: The Sea Wolf (Wolf Larsen)
- 1959: Bonanza (TV series, episode The Sun Mountain Herd )
- 1960: Seven Ways to destruction ( Seven Ways from Sundown )
- 1962: Light in the Piazza ( Light in the Piazza )
- 1963: The Commodore (A Gathering of Eagles)
- 1964: Plea for a murderer ( Man in the Middle )
- 1964: Stage to Thunder Rock (Stage to Thunder Rock)
- 1965: Planet of the Vampires (Terrore nell'spazzio)
- 1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower (The Poppy Is Also a Flower)
- 1966: Second Hand Murder (An American Dream)
- 1969: Bloody Trail (Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here)
- 1969: Outsider (Shark!)
- 1973: Pat Garrett chases Billy the Kid (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
- 1974: Earthquake (Earthquake)
- 1975: One slammed in front of the bib (La parola di un fuorilegge ... è legge!)
- 1976: Camorra - A bull cleans up (Napoli violenta)
- 1977: Oh God ... (Oh God!)
literature
- Barry Sullivan . In: Eddie Garrett: I Saw Stars in the 40's and 50's . Trafford Publishing, 2005, pp. 216.
Web links
- Barry Sullivan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary for Barry Sullivan in: The New York Times
- Obituary for Barry Sullivan in: The Independent
- Films by Barry Sullivan with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data by Barry Sullivan in: Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) , by Andrew Spicer, Scarecrow Press, 2010, p. 291
- ↑ Der Spiegel , June 1994.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sullivan, Barry |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1994 |
Place of death | Sherman Oaks , California , USA |