Barbara Barrie
Birthday: 1931-05-23
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film. On television she is perhaps best known for her portrayal, between 1975 and 1978, of the wife of the namesake captain in the detective sitcom Barney Miller. Barrie also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1971 for originating the role of Sarah in Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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The Odd Couple: Together Again
Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few ...
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Breaking Away
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...
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Hercules
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in...
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For the Use of the Hall
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forg...
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Judy Berlin
Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, wher...
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Child of Glass
Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a...
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements....
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End of the Line
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate he...
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Frame Of Mind
A New Jersey police detective comes across new evidence in the Kennedy assassination....
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Harvest
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their pat...
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Twelve Thirty
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young ...
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Second Best
Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for t...
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One Potato, Two Potato
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an Afric...
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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysteri...
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The Bell Jar
Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to ...
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director ...
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Two of a Kind
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to...
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Not Just Another Affair
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is...
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Real Men
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes ...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patt...
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The Children Nobody Wanted
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming...
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After the Rain
A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The mar...
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Tell Me My Name
Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave he...
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30 Days
Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is gett...
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The Caretakers
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward o...
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Vital Signs
Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the ab...
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Private Benjamin
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficu...
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Things Like This
Struggling writer Zack Anthony meets Zack Mandel, an assistant to a talent agent. Their connection b...
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The Execution
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi conce...
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My Breast
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspir...
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My First Love
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrisse...
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Barefoot In the Park
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers...
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$pent
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends wi...
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The Rank and File
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies,...
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Winnie
Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while...
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Giant
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
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Six by Sondheim
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through ...
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Working
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing th...
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Original Cast Album: Company
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Co...
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To Race the Wind
A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School stude...
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Significant Other
All of Jordan Berman’s best friends are setting a date…and he can’t even get one. Now when he needs ...
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, l...
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Above All Things
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief i...
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smugglin...
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The Magnificent Meyersons
A complicated New York City family as they discover on one extraordinary day that although life-and ...
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First Impressions
Summer Stories: The Mall - Part 1 A girl is torn whether to meet her birth mother....
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A Chance of Snow
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and dau...
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