Wesley Barry

Wesley Barry

Born: August 10, 1907
Died: April 11, 1994
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Wesley Barry...

Stunt Pilot
Title: Stunt Pilot
Character: Glenn
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Spring Madness
Title: Spring Madness
Character: Dartmouth College Student
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Title: Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Character: 1st Sophomore
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
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The Mexicali Kid
Title: The Mexicali Kid
Character: The Mexicali Kid
Released: September 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Delivery Boy
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Assistant Director
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Rich Relations
Title: Rich Relations
Character: Albert
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
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The Plough and the Stars
Title: The Plough and the Stars
Character: Sniper
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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Lady Be Careful
Title: Lady Be Careful
Character: Texas
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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Night Life of the Gods
Title: Night Life of the Gods
Character: Alfred Lambert, Jr.
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
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The Life of Vergie Winters
Title: The Life of Vergie Winters
Character: Herbert Somerby
Released: June 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
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The Thoroughbred
Title: The Thoroughbred
Character: Tod Taylor
Released: August 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer. Tod elects to work for Riley, incurring the enmity of rival jockeys. Riley's daughter, Colleen, sympathizes with Tod and cares for his bruises. Trying to befriend Donovan, Tod wins a match between Riley's colt, Reckless, and Donovan's best horse; and many more victories bolster his confidence. His head is turned by Margie, a come-on girl for Drake, a gambler. She precipitates his dissipation, and Tod is induced to throw the race to avoid a jail sentence.
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Sunny Skies
Title: Sunny Skies
Character: Sturrle
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his steadfast supporter.
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Border Romance
Title: Border Romance
Character: Victor Hamlin
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.
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Skyscraper
Title: Skyscraper
Character: Redhead
Released: April 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
Title: Top Sergeant Mulligan
Character: Mickey Neilan
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: 'Skippy' Lowry
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.
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Wild Geese
Title: Wild Geese
Character: Martin Gare
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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The Midshipman
Title: The Midshipman
Character: Ted Lawrence
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the sister of a plebe. She is engaged to Basil Courtney, a wealthy reprobate who arranges with Rita to discredit James.
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The Fighting Cub
Title: The Fighting Cub
Released: July 27, 1925
Type: Movie
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Battling Bunyan
Title: Battling Bunyan
Character: Battling Bunyan
Released: February 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
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The Country Kid
Title: The Country Kid
Character: Ben Applegate
Released: October 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal guardian, but he's only concerned with getting his hands on the farm. He has Ben declared incompetent and packs off Joe and Andy to an orphanage. When things look darkest for the three boys, help comes from an unexpected source.
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The Printer's Devil
Title: The Printer's Devil
Character: Brick Hubbard
Released: August 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuriates Ira Gates, a local banker and a power in the town--and who also happens to be the father of Vivian Gates, whom Sidney is in love with. To complicate matters, the bank is robbed and Sidney is suspected of the crime.
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Heroes of the Street
Title: Heroes of the Street
Character: Mickey Callahan
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Marmaduke Clarke
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com
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Penrod
Title: Penrod
Character: Penrod
Released: February 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.
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The Lotus Eater
Title: The Lotus Eater
Character: Jocko
Released: November 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he takes off on a balloon trip to China.
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Bits of Life
Title: Bits of Life
Character: Tom Levitt, a boy
Released: September 26, 1921
Type: Movie
This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Chinese father and a white mother is sold into slavery by his father. The boy becomes a criminal and a cunning but cruel thief. The one time he stops to help a lady in distress he is thrown in jail. Wesley Barry is the young boy and Lon Chaney the grown-up criminal.
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Bob Hampton of Placer
Title: Bob Hampton of Placer
Character: Dick
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.
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Dinty
Title: Dinty
Character: Dinty O'Sullivan
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
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The County Fair
Title: The County Fair
Character: Tommy Perkins
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.
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The White Circle
Title: The White Circle
Character: Ferd
Released: August 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Having endangered his life by foolishly gambling away funds entrusted to him by the Carbonari, an Italian secret society, London banker Bernard Huddlestone appeals to Northmour, an adventurer, for protection. Northmour takes Huddlestone and his daughter Clara to his castle in Scotland, offering them safety in return for Clara's hand in marriage. There Clara encounters Frank Cassilis, an old adversary of Northmour's, and falls in love. Trouble brews between the two men, but when the Carbonari discovers Huddlestone's hiding place and storms the castle, the fugitives band together to fight the avengers. Coming to the realization that only his sacrifice will appease the attackers, Huddlestone steps out and meets his death. Northmour, deciding that married life would prove too monotonous, gives up his claim on Clara to Cassilis.
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Go and Get It
Title: Go and Get It
Character: Dinty
Released: July 18, 1920
Type: Movie
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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A Woman of Pleasure
Title: A Woman of Pleasure
Character: Danny Thomas
Released: November 9, 1919
Type: Movie
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Title: Her Kingdom of Dreams
Character: Office Boy
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Title: Daddy-Long-Legs
Character: Orphan Boy (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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The Unpardonable Sin
Title: The Unpardonable Sin
Character: George Washington Sticker
Released: April 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
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Johanna Enlists
Title: Johanna Enlists
Character: Johanna's Brother
Released: September 14, 1918
Type: Movie
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
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How Could You, Jean?
Title: How Could You, Jean?
Character: Morley Child
Released: June 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Title: Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Character: Amarilly's Brother (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
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The Phoney Cannibal
Title: The Phoney Cannibal
Released: April 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Ham fears he has accidentally killed his landlady so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as a missionary and a cannibal.