Byron Barr

Byron Barr

Born: August 18, 1917
Died: November 3, 1966
in Corning, Iowa, USA

Movies for Byron Barr...

Covered Wagon Raid
Title: Covered Wagon Raid
Character: Roy Chandler
Released: June 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif, a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing and murdering settlers bound for the large Chandler ranch which has been cut up into small parcels of land for purchase.
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Appointment with Danger
Title: Appointment with Danger
Character: Policeman
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Character: Joe Pettigrew
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: McCary
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Down Dakota Way
Title: Down Dakota Way
Character: Steve Paxton
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the government. Rogers manages to straighten out the situation by appealing to the sensibilities of the aunt (Elizabeth Risdon) of McKenzie's hotheaded hired assassin (Byron Barr). The film also bears several musical numbers from Roy, Dale Evans, and Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage.
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Pitfall
Title: Pitfall
Character: Bill Smiley
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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The Main Street Kid
Title: The Main Street Kid
Character: Bud Wheeling (as Byron S. Barr)
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
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Seven Were Saved
Title: Seven Were Saved
Character: Lt. Martin Pinkert
Released: March 28, 1947
Type: Movie
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Vance Crane
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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They Made Me a Killer
Title: They Made Me a Killer
Character: Steve Reynolds
Released: May 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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Tokyo Rose
Title: Tokyo Rose
Character: Pete Sherman
Released: February 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
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Follow That Woman
Title: Follow That Woman
Character: John Evans
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Derek Quinton
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
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The Affairs of Susan
Title: The Affairs of Susan
Character: Chick
Released: July 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Practically Yours
Title: Practically Yours
Character: Navigator (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1944
Type: Movie
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Nino Zachetti
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.