Tony Barry
Department: Acting
Biography
Tony Barry (born 28 August 1941) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.
Known For
Paperback Hero
1999
Frog Dreaming
1986
We of the Never Never
1982
The Man From Snowy River II
1988
Mullet
2001
Goodbye Pork Pie
1981
I Own the Racecourse
1986
Solo
2006
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1980
Jack Be Nimble
1993
Newsfront
1978
The Last of the Ryans
1997
La spagnola
2001
The Night We Called It a Day
2003
Mystery Road
2013
The Ballad of Betty & Joe
2008
The Picture Show Man
1977
The Settlement
1984
Fresh Air
1999
The Widower
2004
Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
2003
Pallet on the Floor
1986
The Last Tattoo
1994
The Mango Tree
1977
Break of Day
1976
The Surfer
1986
Never Say Die
1988
Platypus Cove
1986
The Rainbow Warrior
1997
The Odd Angry Shot
1979
Rest for the Wicked
2011
Initiation
1987
Absent Without Leave
1993
The Coca-Cola Kid
1985
BabaKiueria
1986
Little Boy Lost
1978
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
1976
Home by Christmas
2010
Shame
1988
Australia
2008
Keiron: The First Voyager
1985
Archer's Adventure
1985
Old Scores
1991
One Answer to Cancer
2013
Grace
2017
Puzzle
1978
Lady Vengeance
2005
Dead Easy
1982
Demolition
1979
Change Of Heart
1999
Shadow of the Cobra
1989
Typhon's People
1993
Nobody's Child
2017
Hard Knocks
1980
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997
BlackJack
2003
Rose Against the Odds
1991
Midnite Spares
1983
Cross Life
2007
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
1988
The Earthling
1980
The Irishman
1978
The Silence
2006
Hell Has Harbour Views
2005
Wild Man
1977
Gone
2006
Two Friends
1986
Joyful and Triumphant
1993
Remember Belsen
2025
Almost
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Ned
2003
The End
2020
False Witness
2009
Halifax f.p.
1994
Dirt Game
2009
Total Control
2019
The Time of Our Lives
2013
The Flying Doctors
1986
Bay of Fires
2023
Scales of Justice
1983
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo
2011
Faraway Downs
2023
The Sullivans
1976
Cyclone Tracy
1986
Police Rescue
1991
The Man from Snowy River
1994
Harrow
2018
Soldier Soldier
1991
All Saints
1998
Grass Roots
2000