Barry MacKay

Barry MacKay

Born: January 8, 1906
Died: December 12, 1985
in London, England, UK
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Barry MacKay (8 January 1906 – 12 December 1985) was a British actor.

He was most prominently seen in light comedic roles in the British cinema of the 1930s and is perhaps best known as Jessie Matthews' leading man in Evergreen (1934), Gangway (1937) and Sailing Along (1938).

Other notable roles include Lieutenant Somerville in Brown on Resolution (1935) and as Fred, Scrooge's nephew, in MGM's film A Christmas Carol (1938), the latter being one of two films he made in the US; the other was the lead role in a B-picture, Smuggled Cargo (1939). After these films and serving in the Canadian navy during WW II, followed by stage work, there was a long gap in his film career until he reappeared as a character actor in the 1950s, making his last film (Timeslip a.k.a. The Atomic Man ) in 1955.

Barry also appeared in the 1954 Sheldon Reynolds produced Sherlock Holmes television series. He portrayed Reggie "Sardines" Taunton in episode 17; "The Case of the Laughing Mummy".

Movies for Barry MacKay...

Timeslip
Title: Timeslip
Character: Inspector Hammond
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: TV
The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade. Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series' associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one of the first women to attain a senior production role in a television series.
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Orders Are Orders
Title: Orders Are Orders
Character: R.S.M. Benson
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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Grand National Night
Title: Grand National Night
Character: Sergeant Gibson
Released: April 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Mr. Snubbins
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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Smuggled Cargo
Title: Smuggled Cargo
Character: Gerry Clayton
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Scrooge's Nephew Fred
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Who Killed John Savage?
Title: Who Killed John Savage?
Character: Anthony Benedict
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Who Killed John Savage?
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Sailing Along
Title: Sailing Along
Character: Steve Barnes
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him
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Gangway
Title: Gangway
Character: Bob Deering
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Glamorous Night
Title: Glamorous Night
Character: Anthony Allan
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
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The Great Barrier
Title: The Great Barrier
Character: Steve
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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The Private Secretary
Title: The Private Secretary
Character: Douglas Cattermole
Released: August 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Dick Welch
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Brown on Resolution
Title: Brown on Resolution
Character: Lt. Somerville
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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Oh, Daddy!
Title: Oh, Daddy!
Character: Jimmy Ellison
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
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Passing Shadows
Title: Passing Shadows
Character: Jim Lawrence
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
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Forbidden Territory
Title: Forbidden Territory
Character: Michael Farringdon
Released: October 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border
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Evergreen
Title: Evergreen
Character: Tommy Thompson
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Rodrigo, the Impostor, a Man of Romance
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The 1002nd Night
Title: The 1002nd Night
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.