Tony Barry
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.574 |
| Birthday | 1941-08-28 |
| Place of Birth | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
| Also Known As |
1986
Frog Dreaming
5.622/45
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange event...
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Frog Dreaming
1982
We of the Never Never
5.9/12
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexu...
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We of the Never Never
1988
The Man From Snowy River II
6.7/41
After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
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The Man From Snowy River II
2001
Mullet
5.2/4
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to...
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Mullet
1981
Goodbye Pork Pie
6.7/23
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...
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Goodbye Pork Pie
2006
Solo
5.5/2
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm o...
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Solo
1980
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
5/1
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1993
Jack Be Nimble
5.3/17
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a...
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Jack Be Nimble
1999
Fresh Air
2/1
Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy and kitchen-sink drama. It is also a realistic de...
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Fresh Air
2013
Mystery Road
6.269/156
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in...
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Mystery Road
1984
The Settlement
0/0
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-...
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The Settlement
2004
The Widower
0/0
Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. When Neville is diagnosed as terminally ill his son B...
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The Widower
1983
The Dismissal
0/0
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-Genera...
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The Dismissal
1986
Pallet on the Floor
5/1
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a dr...
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Pallet on the Floor
1994
The Last Tattoo
5.5/4
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt f...
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The Last Tattoo
1986
Platypus Cove
0/0
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
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Platypus Cove
1988
Never Say Die
3.8/3
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside A...
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Never Say Die
2011
Rest for the Wicked
6.5/1
Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the...
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Rest for the Wicked
1993
Absent Without Leave
7/1
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted...
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Absent Without Leave
1985
The Coca-Cola Kid
5.429/49
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley o...
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The Coca-Cola Kid
1986
BabaKiueria
6.5/6
Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white natives? In 1788, the first white settlers arrived in...
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BabaKiueria
1978
Little Boy Lost
5/1
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers,...
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Little Boy Lost
2010
Home by Christmas
4.5/2
A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II exper...
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Home by Christmas
1988
Shame
6/22
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle ma...
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Shame
2008
Australia
6.593/2229
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to pro...
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Australia
1985
Archer's Adventure
5/6
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbo...
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Archer's Adventure
1991
Old Scores
6/1
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966...
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Old Scores
2013
One Answer to Cancer
10/1
This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is legal. The other has been curing cancer for 2000 year...
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One Answer to Cancer
2017
Grace
0/0
A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship w...
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Grace
1978
Puzzle
0/0
Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
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Puzzle
2005
Lady Vengeance
7.5/1608
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
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Lady Vengeance
1982
Dead Easy
6.5/2
Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results i...
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Dead Easy
1979
Demolition
3/2
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repeti...
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Demolition
1999
Change Of Heart
4/1
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Change Of Heart
1989
Shadow of the Cobra
7/1
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia duri...
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Shadow of the Cobra
1993
Typhon's People
0/0
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway t...
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Typhon's People
2017
Nobody's Child
0/0
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that finding him will right all wrongs. Her quest leads her...
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Nobody's Child
1980
Hard Knocks
0/0
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society...
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Hard Knocks
1997
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
6.2/4
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nas...
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline
2003
BlackJack
7/1
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral...
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BlackJack
1991
Rose Against the Odds
0/0
The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
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Rose Against the Odds
1983
Midnite Spares
5.9/10
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to c...
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Midnite Spares
2007
Cross Life
0/0
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights o...
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Cross Life
1988
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
5.9/13
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "sta...
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
1980
The Earthling
6.375/24
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes acros...
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The Earthling
1978
The Irishman
0/0
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, t...
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The Irishman
2005
Hell Has Harbour Views
4.5/2
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on...
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Hell Has Harbour Views
2006
The Silence
6/3
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.
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The Silence
1977
Wild Man
0/0
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island duri...
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Wild Man
2006
Gone
4.989/89
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and...
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Gone
1986
Two Friends
5.9/11
The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.
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Two Friends
1986
I Own the Racecourse
0/0
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Austr...
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I Own the Racecourse
1997
The Last of the Ryans
0/0
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.
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The Last of the Ryans
2001
La spagnola
5.4/9
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter L...
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La spagnola
2003
The Night We Called It a Day
5.2/13
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the cou...
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The Night We Called It a Day
2008
The Ballad of Betty & Joe
0/0
Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earn...
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The Ballad of Betty & Joe
1986
The Surfer
5/1
Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thriller. When his best friend is murdered, Sam takes on...
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The Surfer
1979
The Odd Angry Shot
6.1/25
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp...
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The Odd Angry Shot
1987
Initiation
6.2/3
After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her d...
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Initiation
1999
Paperback Hero
6.3/23
An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Compli...
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Paperback Hero
1978
Newsfront
5.6/11
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing tim...
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Newsfront
1977
The Picture Show Man
6.3/6
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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The Picture Show Man
2003
Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
0/0
An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.
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Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
1977
The Mango Tree
0/0
Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of hig...
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The Mango Tree
1976
Break of Day
1/1
Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her...
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Break of Day
1997
The Rainbow Warrior
5.3/3
Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear t...
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The Rainbow Warrior
1976
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
0/0
Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions o...
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