Barry Sullivan

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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)

literature

  • Barry Sullivan . In: Eddie Garrett: I Saw Stars in the 40's and 50's . Trafford Publishing, 2005, pp. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. Der Spiegel , June 1994.