Barry K. Barnes

Barry K. Barnes

Born: December 27, 1906
Died: January 12, 1965
in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Barry K. Barnes (born Nelson Barry Mackintosh Barnes; 27 December 1906 – 12 January 1965) was an English film and stage actor. The son of Horatio Nelson Barnes and Anne Mackintosh Barnes, he was born and died in London. He appeared in sixteen films between 1936 and 1947. He played Sir Percy Blakeney in the 1937 film Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel. His film career was cut short in 1947 due to an undiagnosable illness contracted during the war. He was married to actress Diana Churchill, and worked with his wife on stage during the 1940s and 1950s, taking West End revivals of The Admirable Crichton and On Approval on profitable tours.

Movies for Barry K. Barnes...

Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Title: Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Character: Grumpy Customer
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Paul Baker
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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Bedelia
Title: Bedelia
Character: Ben Chaney
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Stephen Farringdon
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Law and Disorder
Title: Law and Disorder
Character: Larry Preston
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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The Midas Touch
Title: The Midas Touch
Character: Evan Jones
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
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This Man in Paris
Title: This Man in Paris
Character: Simon Drake
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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Spies of the Air
Title: Spies of the Air
Character: Peter Thurloe
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
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The Ware Case
Title: The Ware Case
Character: Michael Adye
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Dr. Georges Marechal
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
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This Man Is News
Title: This Man Is News
Character: Simon Drake
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
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Who Goes Next?
Title: Who Goes Next?
Character: Hamilton
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Sir Percy Blakeney alias The Scarlet Pimpernel
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Dodging the Dole
Title: Dodging the Dole
Character: The Dole Dodger
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An exasperated clerk at a labour exchange tries to find jobs for two idle scroungers.