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Garrett "Barry" Atwater (May 16, 1918 – May 24, 1978) was an American character actor who appeared frequently on TV from the 1950s into the 1970s. He appeared on Twilight Zone (1960); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Mission:Impossible (1966); Hawaii Five-0 (1970); Kung Fu (1974); and The Rockford Files (1977). The son of a renowned landscape painter of the same name, Garrett Atwater was born in Denver, Colorado. He served as head of the UCLA Sound Department before he began his acting career. His work teaching audio techniques led to a role in the student film A Time Out of War,... MORE

Garrett "Barry" Atwater (May 16, 1918 – May 24, 1978) was an American character actor who appeared frequently on TV from the 1950s into the 1970s. He appeared on Twilight Zone (1960); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Mission:Impossible (1966); Hawaii Five-0 (1970); Kung Fu (1974); and The Rockford Files (1977). The son of a renowned landscape painter of the same name, Garrett Atwater was born in Denver, Colorado. He served as head of the UCLA Sound Department before he began his acting career. His work teaching audio techniques led to a role in the student film A Time Out of War, a Civil War allegory that won the Oscar as best short film of 1954. He began appearing often in TV episodes, often as a primary guest star, even playing the title characters on episodes of such shows as The Millionaire, Meet McGraw, The Court of Last Resort, One Step Beyond (as Abraham Lincoln), and Cheyenne (as George Custer). By 1960, he had achieved enough stature to be named by host Rod Serling in the on-screen promo as one of the stars of the well-known Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." This flourishing period of TV appearances coincided with some major supporting LESS