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Don "Red" Barry (January 11, 1912 – July 17, 1980) was an American film actor who got his nickname "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following the success of Red Ryder, but none reached the success of the Ryder film series. By the 1950s, Barry was a supporting actor instead of playing leads in westerns; one more or less typical example of his work was as a black-clad gunfighter in a 1961 episode of the... MORE

Don "Red" Barry (January 11, 1912 – July 17, 1980) was an American film actor who got his nickname "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following the success of Red Ryder, but none reached the success of the Ryder film series. By the 1950s, Barry was a supporting actor instead of playing leads in westerns; one more or less typical example of his work was as a black-clad gunfighter in a 1961 episode of the western television series Maverick with Jack Kelly and Buddy Ebsen called "Last Stop: Oblivion." On January 13, 1965, he appeared in the final episode of the short-lived Mickey sitcom starring Mickey Rooney. Barry was cast as a freeloading friend who had saved Mickey's life in World War II. Barry played a supporting role in Shalako in 1968 with Sean Connery. Barry played supporting roles in dozens of TV shows, particularly westerns. He appeared 8 times on the long running series The Virginian in the 1960s. He also appeared in at least two episodes of Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie. In LESS