Tony Barry
Birthday: 1941-08-28
Place of Birth: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
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.
Movies
Paperback Hero
An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's ...
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Frog Dreaming
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive an...
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We of the Never Never
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of...
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The Man From Snowy River II
After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. ...
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Mullet
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city witho...
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Goodbye Pork Pie
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife...
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I Own the Racecourse
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Syd...
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Solo
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The...
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and ...
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Jack Be Nimble
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of...
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Newsfront
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dr...
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The Last of the Ryans
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he an...
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La spagnola
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. L...
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The Night We Called It a Day
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local r...
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Mystery Road
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the ...
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The Ballad of Betty & Joe
Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian t...
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The Picture Show Man
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies...
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The Settlement
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to ...
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Fresh Air
Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy...
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The Widower
Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. Whe...
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Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave....
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Pallet on the Floor
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and ec...
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The Last Tattoo
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot...
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The Mango Tree
Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of W...
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Break of Day
Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his coun...
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The Surfer
Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thrill...
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Never Say Die
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilba...
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Platypus Cove
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a dec...
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The Rainbow Warrior
Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985,...
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The Odd Angry Shot
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the ...
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Rest for the Wicked
Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds o...
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Initiation
After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Aus...
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Absent Without Leave
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who...
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The Coca-Cola Kid
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market pe...
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BabaKiueria
Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white nat...
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Little Boy Lost
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a conti...
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The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilit...
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Home by Christmas
A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's inter...
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Shame
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell'...
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Australia
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ...
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Keiron: The First Voyager
Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves....
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Archer's Adventure
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbo...
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Old Scores
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confess...
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One Answer to Cancer
This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is lega...
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Grace
A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elde...
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Puzzle
Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and int...
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Lady Vengeance
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her ...
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Dead Easy
Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, ...
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Demolition
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-...
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Shadow of the Cobra
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed o...
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Typhon's People
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is as...
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Nobody's Child
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that findi...
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Hard Knocks
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion mod...
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian t...
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BlackJack
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking do...
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Rose Against the Odds
The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until ...
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Midnite Spares
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely de...
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Cross Life
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by...
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralp...
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The Earthling
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness...
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The Irishman
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way thin...
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The Silence
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murde...
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It w...
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Wild Man
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold...
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Gone
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Austral...
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Two Friends
The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of ni...
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Joyful and Triumphant
Follow the Bishop family through 40 years of Christmases from 1949 to 1989....
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Remember Belsen
An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded...
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Almost
Thanks to film student Kate Ruth's making-of doco we get an intimate look at egos in crisis, as two ...
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