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Patricia Barry
Barry with Val Dufour in First Love, 1954
Born
Patricia Allen White

(1921-11-16) November 16, 1921 (age 102)
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationActress
Years active1947–2001
Spouse(s)Philip Barry, Jr. (1950–1998, his death); 2 children

Patricia Barry (born November 16, 1921) is an American film and television actress.

Life and career

Patricia Allen White was born in Davenport, Iowa. She was signed under the name Patricia Barry for a Columbia Pictures contract almost immediately upon her graduation at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.[1] She began her film career in 1947 and later appeared in over 130 television series and movies.

On television, Barry appeared in such nighttime series as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Donna Reed Show, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Laramie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Going My Way, Thriller, Route 66, Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone.[2] (Episode: "The Chaser").

She was cast on March 3, 1959, as the recently widowed Doreen Bradley in the episode "The Giant Killer" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role.[2]

Barry appeared in daytime dramas, including Days of Our Lives (as Addie Horton Olson Williams, Julie and Hope's mother), All My Children (as Peg English, who raised Brooke while running a drug ring), The Guiding Light (as Sally Gleason who gave birth to Billy Lewis after an affair with H.B. Lewis) and Loving as Isabelle Alden where she was reunited with former "Guiding Light" co-star Larkin Malloy, again playing her son. She appeared on a children's television show, Ghostwriter as Lana Barnes. She made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murder accomplice Janice Atkins in the season 3 , 1960 episode, "The Case of the Frantic Flyer", murderer Dorine Hopkins in the season 4, 1961 episode, "The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather", and defendant Eva Belter in the season 6, 1963 episode, "The Case of the Velvet Claws". She appeared on The Rifleman as schoolmarm Adele Adams. In 1963, she portrayed Abigail Fletcher in the episode "Incident of the Married Widow" on CBS's Rawhide.[2]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "Patricia Barry biography". MSN. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  2. ^ a b c Patricia Barry at IMDb