Tony Barry

Born: 1941-08-28

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.


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as Sergeant Callahan
Released: 2008-11-18

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling...

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Lady Vengeance

as Jenny's Adoptive Father
Released: 2005-07-29

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing...

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The Coca-Cola Kid

as Bushman
Released: 1985-07-14

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase...

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Gone

as UTE Driver
Released: 2006-10-26

A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the...

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Mystery Road

as Sarge
Released: 2013-08-15

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets...

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The Last Tattoo

as James Carroll
Released: 1994-07-01

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the...

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The Earthling

as Red
Released: 1980-07-24

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the...

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The Night We Called It a Day

as Ralph Blue
Released: 2003-08-14

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a...

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The Man From Snowy River II

as Jacko
Released: 1988-03-24

After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy...

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Shame

as Tim Curtis
Released: 1988-02-26

Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But...

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Frog Dreaming

as Gaza
Released: 1986-05-01

American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative,...

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The Odd Angry Shot

as Black Ronnie
Released: 1979-03-01

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter...

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Dead Easy

as Ozzie
Released: 1982-09-13

Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob...

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Goodbye Pork Pie

as John
Released: 1981-02-05

Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose...

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Shadow of the Cobra

as uncredited
Released: 1989-07-18

Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who...

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Paperback Hero

as uncredited
Released: 1999-03-25

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best...

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Newsfront

as Greasy
Released: 1978-07-29

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their...

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BlackJack

as Joe Bueneroti
Released: 2003-03-16

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in...

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Archer's Adventure

as Squatter
Released: 1985-11-03

During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the...

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Two Friends

as Charlie
Released: 1986-05-13

The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course...

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The Silence

as Dennis Riordan
Released: 2006-09-08

A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of...

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We of the Never Never

as Mac
Released: 1982-11-04

Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true...

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Midnite Spares

as Howard
Released: 1983-02-17

After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's...

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

as Det. John Hughes
Released: 1980-01-31

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey...

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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

as Mad Mile
Released: 1988-12-08

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend...

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Doing Time for Patsy Cline

as Dwayne
Released: 1997-09-25

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote...

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Mullet

as Col Maloney
Released: 2001-06-28

Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city...

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The Dismissal

as The Press Secretary
Released: 1983-03-06

The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of...

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Typhon's People

as The Minister
Released: 1993-01-01

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he...

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Absent Without Leave

as Peter
Released: 1993-02-20

In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed,...

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Hell Has Harbour Views

as Frank Flannery
Released: 2005-01-30

Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune....

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The Rainbow Warrior

as Greenpeace Activist
Released: 1993-05-22

Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in...

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Grace

as Mr. Symonds
Released: 2017-12-17

A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her...

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Hard Knocks

as Barry
Released: 1980-10-23

A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion...

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Rose Against the Odds

as Jack Rennie
Released: 1991-09-29

The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up...

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Wild Man

as Dombey Morgan
Released: 1977-01-01

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast...

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Demolition

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-21

When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of...

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Old Scores

as Barry Brown
Released: 1991-01-01

Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed...

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Never Say Die

as Insp. Evans
Released: 1988-12-09

Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones...

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La spagnola

as Dr. Knuckey
Released: 2001-04-05

Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie...

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Initiation

as Pat
Released: 1987-06-20

After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in...

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The Irishman

as Rob Dalgleish
Released: 1978-02-28

Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is...

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Fresh Air

as Bob
Released: 1999-05-06

Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban...

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Solo

as Louis
Released: 2006-07-27

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as...

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The Mango Tree

as Tommy Smith
Released: 1977-12-13

Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years...

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Rest for the Wicked

as Murray
Released: 2011-11-24

Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he...

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Pallet on the Floor

as Larkman
Released: 1986-01-01

A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking...

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The Last of the Ryans

as Father Brosnan
Released: 1997-04-23

Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence,...

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Puzzle

as Det. Const. Langdon
Released: 1978-12-05

Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and...

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The Settlement

as The Sergeant
Released: 1984-07-19

Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking...

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BabaKiueria

as Father (Mr. Smith)
Released: 1986-01-01

Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white...

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Change Of Heart

as Mervyn
Released: 1999-01-01

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The Picture Show Man

as Policeman
Released: 1977-05-05

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

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Jack Be Nimble

as Clarrie
Released: 1993-09-15

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after...

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I Own the Racecourse

as Bert Hammond
Released: 1986-01-01

A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major...

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The Surfer

as Calhoun
Released: 1986-03-18

Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action...

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One Answer to Cancer

as Narrator
Released: 2013-01-01

This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is...

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Nobody's Child

as Hank
Released: 2017-01-01

Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that...

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Platypus Cove

as Frank Nelson
Released: 1986-01-01

After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a...

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Little Boy Lost

as Const. O'Day
Released: 1978-11-16

The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a...

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Break of Day

as Joe
Released: 1976-12-31

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his...

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Cross Life

as Bill
Released: 2007-07-02

Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people...

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Home by Christmas

as Ed
Released: 2010-04-29

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's...

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The Ballad of Betty & Joe

as Joe
Released: 2008-07-23

Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the...

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The Flying Doctors

as Bruce Logan
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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The Man from Snowy River

as Bernard Hardwick
First aired: 1994-09-23

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The...

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The Sullivans

as Ginger
First aired: 1976-11-15

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which...

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Halifax f.p.

as Bob 'Dizzy' Gillespie
First aired: 1994-10-09

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to...

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Harrow

as Jack Twine
First aired: 2018-03-09

When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical...

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Police Rescue

as Clyde
First aired: 1991-02-14

Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales...

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The End

as Willie
First aired: 2020-02-10

Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out...

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Bay of Fires

as Joseph
First aired: 2023-07-16

Stella is unexpectedly dropped into a small community with her children. It is the kind of place...

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Faraway Downs

as Sergeant Callahan
First aired: 2023-11-26

The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in...

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Dirt Game

as Alec Nolan
First aired: 2009-04-19

Enter the dramatic and dangerous world of Australia's oldest and riskiest pursuit – mining. A...

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Total Control

as Phillip Anderson
First aired: 2019-10-13

A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after...

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The Time of Our Lives

as Ray Tivolli
First aired: 2013-06-16

The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their...

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Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

as Sir Frank Packer
First aired: 2011-04-17

In early 1972, Ita Buttrose and Kerry Packer got together to create a magazine that became one...

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Cyclone Tracy

as Mick Brennan
First aired: 1986-11-05

Cyclone Tracy is a 1986 Australian mini series about Cyclone Tracy.

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Scales of Justice

as Nipper Jackson
First aired: 1983-09-20

Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael...

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False Witness

as The Libertine
First aired: 2009-01-11

A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to...

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