Barry Corbin

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Barry Corbin

Peg Phillips and Barry Corbin, 1993
Born Leonard Barrie Corbin
October 16, 1940 (1940-10-16) (age 68)
Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas, USA

Leonard Barrie "Barry" Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American actor with more than one hundred film, television and video game credits.

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[edit] Career

Corbin began his life as a Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he is more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed murderous villains as well. To moviegoers he is well remembered as the general in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or Roscoe Brown, who was July Johnson's bumbling deputy, in the acclaimed western Lonesome Dove.

In 1983-1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series Boone. Corbin's role was that of father to the young actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons. From 1990 to 1995, Corbin portrayed former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on CBS's Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy nomination.[1] In 1994, Corbin narrated the acclaimed TBS documentary MoonShot, telling the story of the 1960s space race from the first-person viewpoint of Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton. In 2007, He played the character Clay Johnson, father of Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer series.[1]

From 2003-2008, Corbin was a cast member of the teenage drama series One Tree Hill, where he portrayed a basketball coach for the Tree Hill Ravens.[1]

Corbin lost most of his hair in the 1990s due to alopecia areata. Since then, he has played various roles with a shaved head, wearing a cowboy hat, or occasionally wearing a full toupee.

Corbin does voice promotions for the radio station KPLX in Fort Worth, Texas.

[edit] Personal life

Corbin was born in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, south of Lubbock in west Texas. He graduated from Monterey High School, where one of his classmates was the Lubbock deejay Bud Andrews. He was the son of Alma LaMerle Scott, a school teacher, and Kilmer Blaine Corbin, a judge and member of the Texas State Senate for two terms from 1949-1957.[2] Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He was a United States Marine.[3] Many of his films have been westerns, and Corbin's proficiency in the saddle is no act. He played a corrupt sheriff in the 2001 Tom Selleck Turner Network Television film Crossfire Trail. Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small Texas ranch near Fort Worth. He volunteered his time to charity rodeos for many years. In 2006, he participated in the Lubbock centennial.[4] Corbin has been quoted as being an avid enthusiast of riding horses.[5]

Corbin lives on the ranch with his daughter, Shannon Ross (born 1965) and grandchildren. Corbin found Shannon in June 1991, when she was twenty-six. Shannon had been adopted as an infant; her birth mother, who had an affair with Corbin, gave up the child through the Methodist Mission Home in San Antonio, without having told Corbin of the pregnancy. Corbin has three sons: Bernard (born 1970), Jim (born 1979), and Christopher (born 1982). He and his second wife, Susan Berger, divorced in 1992.[3]

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[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Barry Corbin from The Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Barry Corbin Biography
  3. ^ a b Northern Exposure: Barry Corbin bio
  4. ^ http://www.barrycorbin.com/awards.htm
  5. ^ Barry Corbin Biography from The Internet Movie Database

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