Patrick Barr

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Patrick Barr
Born	Patrick David Barr (1908-02-13)February 13, 1908 Akola, India
Died	August 29, 1985(1985-08-29) (aged 77) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932-1986
Spouse	Anne "Jean" Williams
Children	Belinda Barr

Patrick David Barr (February 13, 1908 – August 19, 1985) was a British film and television actor.

Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types. As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Barr helped people in the Blitz in London's East End before serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit in Africa. There he met his wife Anne "Jean" Williams, marrying her after ten days; it would have been sooner, but they had to get permission from London. They stayed together ever afterwards.

In 1946, he picked up where he left off, and in the early 1950s, he began working in British television, attaining popularity that had undeservedly eluded him while playing supporting parts in such films as The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) and The Blue Lagoon (1949).

This latter-day fame enabled Barr to insist upon better roles and command a higher salary for his films of the 1950s and 1960s: among the films in which he appeared during this period were The Dam Busters (1955), Room in the House Randall & Hopkirk Deceased 1968 episode "You can always find a fallguy" (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Next to Next Time (1960), Billy Liar (1963), The First Great Train Robbery (1979) and Octopussy (1983). He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1967 as Hobson in the serial entitled The Moonbase; and appeared once in The Avengers. In the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Barr voiced the role of Gamling.

Patrick Barr died in London in 1985 at the age of 77. His interment was in England.

Selected filmography

• Irish Hearts (1934)
• Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Wednesday's Luck (1936)
• East Meets West (1936)
• The Show Goes On (1937)
• Incident in Shanghai (1938)
• Yellow Sands (1938)
• Marigold (1938)
• The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
• Star of the Circus (1938)
• Let's Be Famous (1939)
• The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
• The Blue Lagoon (1949)
• Golden Arrow (1949)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
• To Have and to Hold (1951)
• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
• Black Orchid (1953)
• Sailor of the King (1953)
• Black 13 (1953)
• Murder at Scotland Yard (1953)
• Escape by Night (1953)
• Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)
• Time Is My Enemy (1954)
• The Dam Busters (1955)
• The Brain Machine (1955)
• Room in the House (1955)
• It's Never Too Late (1956)
• Saint Joan (1957)
• At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
• Lady of Vengeance (1957)
• Urge to Kill (1960)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Ring of Spies (1964)
• Last of the Long-haired Boys (1968)
• Guns in the Heather (1969)
• The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
• House of Whipcord (1974)
• The Black Windmill (1974)
• Home Before Midnight (1979)
• The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
• Octopussy (1983)

External links

• Patrick Barr at IMDb
• Patrick Barr at the Internet Broadway Database