Fred Barry

Fred Barry (1945)

Frédéric "Fred" Barry (born October 28, 1887 in Montreal ; † August 17, 1964 there ) was a Canadian actor and singer.

Career

Barry appeared in the Le Cercle Molière , an amateur drama group, at the age of ten . He made his professional debut in 1914 at the Théâtre Canadien-Français under the direction of Fernand Dhavrol . From 1916 he directed the Imperial Theater Company in Québec, with which he performed French melodramas and comedies. In the 1920s he mainly worked for the radio and participated in revues and operettas.

In 1929 he founded the Barry-Duquesne troupe with Albert Duquesne , which from 1930 resided in the Cinéma Chanteclerc ( Theater Stella , today Théâtre du Rideau Vert ). The troupe, which, under the direction of Antoine Godeau, included actors such as Pierre Durand , Bella Ouellette , Gaston Dauriac , Jeanne Demons , Antoinette Giroux and Jacques Auger , brought a new production of a play currently successful in Paris to the stage every week during the season. Nevertheless, the Stella had to close after five seasons.

Barry was hired by Gratien Gélinas as actor and deputy director of the Fridolinades , an annual revue that ran from 1938 to 1946 and led to the production of the film Tit Coq . Pierre Dagenais cast him in his production L'Équipe (1943-48). In 1959, Claude Jutra made a documentary about him. Philippe Laframboise published the book Fred Barry et la petite histoire du théâtre au Québec with Editions Logiques in 1996 . The city of Quebec named Place Fred-Barry after him in 1976 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Barry, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barry, Frédéric (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1964
Place of death	Montreal