Tony Barry
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.
Filmography 90
Movies (71)
Remember Belsen2025Narrator
Grace2017Mr. Symonds
Nobody's Child2017Hank
Mystery Road2013Sarge
One Answer to Cancer2013Narrator
Rest for the Wicked2011Murray
Home by Christmas2010Ed
Australia2008Sergeant Callahan
The Ballad of Betty & Joe2008Joe
Cross Life2007Bill
Gone2006UTE Driver
The Silence2006Dennis Riordan
Solo2006Louis
Lady Vengeance2005Jenny's Adoptive Father
Hell Has Harbour Views2005Frank Flannery- The Widower2004
- Lennie Cahill Shoots Through2003Lennie
The Night We Called It a Day2003Ralph Blue
Ned2003Bartender
BlackJack2003Joe Bueneroti
Mullet2001Col Maloney
La spagnola2001Dr. Knuckey
Fresh Air1999Bob
Paperback Hero1999
Change Of Heart1999Mervyn
Doing Time for Patsy Cline1997Dwayne
The Last of the Ryans1997Father Brosnan
The Rainbow Warrior1997Greenpeace Activist
The Last Tattoo1994James Carroll
Joyful and Triumphant1993George Bishop
Shows (19)
Faraway Downs2023Sergeant Callahan
Bay of Fires2023Joseph
The End2020Willie
Total Control2019Phillip Anderson
Harrow2018Jack Twine
The Time of Our Lives2013Ray Tivolli
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo2011Sir Frank Packer
Dirt Game2009Alec Nolan
False Witness2009The Libertine
Grass Roots2000Drew Leonard
All Saints1998Frank O'Hara
Halifax f.p.1994Bob 'Dizzy' Gillespie
The Man from Snowy River1994Bernard Hardwick
Soldier Soldier1991Ron Jenkins
Police Rescue1991Clyde
Cyclone Tracy1986Mick Brennan
The Flying Doctors1986Bruce Logan
Scales of Justice1983Nipper Jackson
The Sullivans1976Ginger