T. Roy Barnes

T. Roy Barnes

Born: August 11, 1880
Died: March 30, 1937
in Lincolnshire, England, UK
Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies.

Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He retired from movies in 1935 and died two years later.

Movies for T. Roy Barnes...

Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: LaMaze
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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Village Tale
Title: Village Tale
Character: Goggy Smith
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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The Four Star Boarder
Title: The Four Star Boarder
Character: Felix
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Simonds, the Salesman
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Salesman
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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It's a Gift
Title: It's a Gift
Character: Insurance Salesman
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Alderman James 'Jim' Cameron
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Captain of the Marines
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Johnny Marvin
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Character: T. Roy Barnes
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
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How's My Baby?
Title: How's My Baby?
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
1930 Comedy short
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Bob Wyeth
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Sally
Title: Sally
Character: Otis Hooper
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
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Dangerous Curves
Title: Dangerous Curves
Character: Pa Spinelli
Released: July 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
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A Blonde for a Night
Title: A Blonde for a Night
Character: George
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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Chicago
Title: Chicago
Character: Reporter
Released: December 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: The Postman
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.
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A Regular Scout
Title: A Regular Scout
Character: Steve Baxter
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. Upon discovering that one of the gang members killed in the raid was the long-lost son of the Monroe family, so he decides to impersonate him to exact his revenge on the their family.
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The Unknown Cavalier
Title: The Unknown Cavalier
Character: Clout Pettingill
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community.....
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
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The Crowded Hour
Title: The Crowded Hour
Character: Matt Wilde
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents. Billy subsequently arranges for the Broadway debut of the act and falls in love with Peggy, who wholeheartedly returns his affection. When the World War breaks out, Billy remains unconcerned until his younger brother is killed in action. Billy then immediately enlists and is sent to France; Peggy joins the Red Cross to be with him, and Grace Laidlaw, Billy's wife, also goes to France, working with the Y. M. C. A. Billy is assigned to destroy an ammunition dump, and Peggy learns, after he has left on the mission, that he has been recalled.
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Seven Chances
Title: Seven Chances
Character: Billy Meekin
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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Reckless Romance
Title: Reckless Romance
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
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Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Character: Cy Dwyer
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Pritchett Spence
Released: July 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
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The Great White Way
Title: The Great White Way
Character: Jack Murray
Released: January 3, 1924
Type: Movie
The Great White Way
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: T. Roy Barnes
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Adam and Eva
Title: Adam and Eva
Character: The Salesman-Hero
Released: February 11, 1923
Type: Movie
An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Happy Jack
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Harry Miller
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in Tommy Robbins, who lives in an adjoining bungalow and whose wife Letty is devoted to the cabarets. Harry admires Letty as much as Tommy admires Grace, and suggests to his neighbor that they arrange an exchange of wives. The wives overhear their husbands' plotting to obtain divorces and, still in love with the men they married, conceive a counter-plan of a week of platonic trial marriages. Over the seven-day period, the wives make life so miserable for each other's husbands that the two men gladly return to their respective spouses.