Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could “make money” simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television.
One of Sullivan’s most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas. Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand. In 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own and replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris’ Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint. Unfortunately, Sullivan only lasted two episodes before the show was cancelled, and then resurrected five weeks later with Vincent Price once again playing the starring role.
Sullivan’s first starring TV show was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957, as secret agent Ken Thurston, the role Herbert Marshall originally portrayed before the microphone. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the adventure/drama television series Harbormaster. He played a commercial ship’s captain, David Scott, and Paul Burke played his partner, Jeff Kittridge, in five episodes of the series, which aired first on CBS and then ABC under the revised title Adventure at Scott Island.
In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the western television series The Tall Man (although the series ran for seventy-five half-hour episodes, the one in which Garrett kills Billy was never filmed). Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as John Chisum, but his scene was excised from the release print (though later restored to the film). He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. In additional to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, which aired on NBC on Monday, alternating with Perry Como), during the 1966-1967 season. Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride.
Sullivan guest starred in many series, including The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Reporter, The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, and McMillan and Wife. He starred in many Hallmark Hall of Fame specials including a highly acclaimed production of “The Price” opposite George C. Scott. Sullivan was consistently in demand for the entirety of his career. His acting career spanned romantic leading man roles to villains and finally to character roles. In his later years, Sullivan had roles in the films, Oh God with George Burns and Earthquake, where he shared scenes with Ava Gardner.
Sullivan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 1500 Vine St. for his work in television, and another at 6160 Hollywood Blvd. for motion pictures.
Barry Sullivan Biography / Wiki
| Name | Barry Sullivan |
| Also Know | БÑрри Салливан |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1912-08-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1994-06-06 |
Barry Sullivan Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Gangster | Shubunka | 1947-11-25 | Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakd… |
| Loophole | Mike Donovan | 1954-03-28 | Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, … |
| Pyro… The Thing Without a Face | Vance Pierson | 1964-01-22 | A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he’d come back… |
| Planet of the Vampires | Captain Mark Markary | 1965-09-15 | In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura. As the Argos lands on the planet her crew … |
| Dragoon Wells Massacre | Link Ferris | 1957-08-28 | A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country…. |
| The Miami Story | Mick Flagg | 1954-05-03 | Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to h… |
| No Questions Asked | Steve Keiver | 1951-06-15 | A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder…. |
| Intimacy | Walter Nicholson | 1966-05-01 | A money-strapped Los Angeles businessman hopes to solve his financial woes by blackmailing his wife’s married lover. Director Victor Stoloff’s 1966 dr… |
| Wolf Larsen | Wolf Larsen | 1958-10-26 | A mean-spirited ship captain keeps his crew under his autocratic thumb while indulging his more refined side. But when his men rise up in mutiny, Lars… |
| Buckskin | Chaddock | 1968-05-01 | A Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam…. |
| Stage to Thunder Rock | Sheriff Horne | 1964-11-11 | … |
| Bad Men of Tombstone | Tom Horn | 1949-01-21 | A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own…. |
| This Savage Land | Benjamin Pride | 1969-07-23 | Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harrassed by Confederate marauders…. |
| The Purple Gang | William P. Harley | 1959-12-18 | The story of the infamous Purple Gang – a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920’s Detroit…. |
| The Washington Affair | Walter Nicholson | 1977-03-04 | An unscrupulous businessman tries to win a government contract by playing up to the engineer assigned to review the project. He comes to the engineer’… |
| Another Part of the Forest | Marcus Hubbard | 1972-10-02 | A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals…. |
| Shark | Mallare | 1969-10-08 | A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he’s stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested… |
| Suspense | Joe Morgan | 1946-06-15 | The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act o… |
| Cry of the Hunted | Lieutenant Tunner | 1953-05-08 | A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps…. |
| Queen Bee | Avery “Beauty” Phillips | 1955-11-07 | A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sist… |
| Jeopardy | Doug Stilwin | 1953-03-30 | A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him…. |
| Playgirl | Mike Marsh | 1954-04-21 | If you remember Shelley Winters from “The Poseidon Adventure” or “Bloody Mama,” you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. … |
| Cause for Alarm! | George Z. Jones | 1951-03-30 | A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter…. |
| Forty Guns | Griff Bonell | 1957-09-10 | An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle … |
| Another Time, Another Place | Carter Reynolds | 1958-05-02 | In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fe… |
| Payment on Demand | David Anderson Ramsey | 1951-02-03 | David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken u… |
| Yuma | Nels Decker | 1971-03-02 | A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman’… |
| Seven Ways from Sundown | Jim Flood | 1960-09-25 | Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a… |
| China Venture | Cmdr. Bert Thompson | 1953-09-07 | American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII…. |
| The Maverick Queen | Jeff Younger | 1956-05-03 | A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue…. |
| Texas Lady | Chris Mooney | 1955-11-23 | Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father’s newspaper. He… |
| Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon | Dillon | 1972-02-22 | After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters…. |
| How to Steal the World | Dr. Robert Kingsley | 1968-09-18 | Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world…. |
| Framed | Steve Price | 1947-05-25 | Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous … |
| Julie | Cliff Henderson | 1956-10-17 | A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband…. |
| The Unknown Man | District Attorney Joe Bucknor | 1951-11-09 | A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he”s gotten off was really guilty…. |
| Violent Naples | ‘O’ Generale | 1976-08-07 | Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sulliv… |
| Man in the Middle | General Kempton | 1964-01-27 | In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. … |
| Nancy Goes to Rio | Paul Berten | 1950-03-10 | Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man…. |
| Smart Woman | Frank McCoy | 1948-04-30 | A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past…. |
| The Outriders | Jesse Wallace | 1950-03-01 | Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raider… |
| Inside Straight | Johnny Sanderson | 1951-03-01 | A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption…. |
| The Immortal | Jordan Braddock | 1969-09-30 | A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-million… |
| Her Twelve Men | Richard Y. Oliver, Sr. | 1954-08-11 | An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty…. |
| Getting Gertie’s Garter | Ted Dalton | 1945-11-27 | Dennis O’Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O’Keefe’s former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an… |
| My Blood Runs Cold | Julian Merriday | 1965-03-24 | Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driv… |
| Stalked | Narrator | 1968-04-02 | In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home t… |
| The Woman of the Town | King Kennedy | 1943-12-31 | Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master… |
| It Takes All Kinds | Orville Benton | 1969-06-12 | After possibly killing a man in a brawl at a farewell party Tony Gunther, an American merchant seaman, is knocked out and wakes up in the apartment of… |
| No Room to Run | Garth Kingswood | 1977-05-18 | Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When… |
| High Explosive | Mike Douglas | 1943-03-27 | Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend “Buzz” Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca… |
| The Way to the Gold | Marshal Hannibal | 1957-05-10 | Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village…. |
| Mr. Imperium | Paul Hunter | 1951-03-02 | A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance int… |
| The Human Factor | Edmonds | 1975-11-19 | After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible…. |
| Tension | Lt. Collier Bonnabel | 1949-11-25 | Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, … |
| Strategic Air Command | Rocky Samford | 1955-07-12 | Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his baseball career…. |
| A Gathering of Eagles | Col. Bill Fowler | 1963-06-21 | Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect… |
| Three Guys Named Mike | Mike Tracy | 1951-03-01 | A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman…all of whom are named Mike. When… |
| And Now Tomorrow | Jeff Stoddard | 1944-11-22 | Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn’t … |
| An American Dream | Police Lt. G. Roberts | 1966-08-31 | Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Debor… |
| Skirts Ahoy! | Paul Elcott | 1952-05-28 | Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn’t long marches or several weeks in a small b… |
| Hurricane | Hank Stoddard | 1974-09-10 | Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town…. |
| Rainbow Island | Ken Masters | 1944-10-05 | Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the nati… |
| The Price | Walter Franz | 1971-01-02 | After the death of their father, two brothers face each other, their past and the consequences of their career decisions…. |
| Grounds for Marriage | Chris Bartlett | 1951-01-12 | Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett…. |
| Harlow | Marino Bello | 1965-05-14 | Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two “Harlow” film biographies that appeared in 1965, this… |
| Johnny Belinda | Black MacDonald | 1967-10-22 | In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor’s efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda… |
| Casino | Sam Fletcher | 1980-08-01 | Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino sh… |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Fred Amiel | 1952-12-25 | Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari… |
| Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Calvet | 1969-10-31 | While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive m… |
| The Great Gatsby | Tom Buchanaan | 1949-07-13 | Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th… |
| Lady in the Dark | Dr. Brooks | 1944-02-10 | A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life…. |
| Nightmare at Ground Zero | Daniel Joyce | 1958-05-15 | After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected – which may have terrible results…. |
| Night Gallery | Dr. Frank Heatherton | 1969-11-08 | This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: “The Cemetery,” directed by Boris Sagal; “Eyes,” directed by … |
| Dime a Dance | Sailor | 1937-12-23 | June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first… |
| Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Chisum | 1973-05-23 | Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid…. |
| Caravans | Richardson | 1978-11-02 | This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener’s best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern … |
| Take a Hard Ride | Kane | 1975-10-29 | After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, M… |
| Savage | Judge Daniel Stern | 1973-03-31 | A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court…. |
| A Life of Her Own | Lee Gorrance | 1950-09-01 | A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man…. |
| House on Greenapple Road | Chief Frank Untermyer | 1970-01-11 | A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive…and the body…. |
| The Hoaxters | Narrator (voice) | 1952-12-05 | A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life…. |
| Letters from Three Lovers | Joshua | 1973-10-03 | Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed…. |
| The Magician | Joseph Baker | 1973-03-17 | Bill Bixby stars in this NBC pilot movie as a famous stage magician and escape artist who solves crimes…. |
| Cannon [Pilot] | Calhoun | 1971-03-26 | In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man’s wife of suspicion in his death…. |
| Light in the Piazza | Noel Johnson | 1962-02-07 | A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Na… |
| Any Number Can Play | Tycoon | 1949-07-15 | When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds i… |
| Earthquake | Dr. Willis Stockle | 1974-01-01 | Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California…. |
| Oh, God! | Bishop Reardon | 1977-10-07 | When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world…. |
| Dates and Nuts | Collegian | 1937-12-31 | Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman’s partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced … |
| The Bastard | Abraham Ware | 1978-05-22 | Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o… |
| The Immigrants | Grant Whittier | 1978-11-20 | A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn’t fin… |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Griff Bonnell (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 | Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips…. |
| Duffy’s Tavern | Danny Murphy | 1945-09-28 | The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy’s Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy…. |
| Poppies Are Also Flowers | Chasen | 1966-05-20 | In this anti-drug film narrated by Grace Kelly, a group of narcotics agents working for the United Nations inject a radioactive compound into a seized… |
| The Arrangement | Chet Collier (uncredited) | 1969-11-18 | An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown…. |
| The Green Hornet Strikes Again! | Thug in Car’s Back Seat | 1940-12-24 | Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato…. |
Barry Sullivan Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their … | ||
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