Biography
Patrick David Barr (13 February 1908 β 29 August 1985) was an English actor. In his career spanning over half a century, he appeared in about 144 films and television series. Born in Akola, British India in 1908, Barr was educated at Radley College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he rowed in the 1929 Boat Race and achieved a Blue. He went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types.As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Barr helped people in the Blitz in London's East End before serving with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in Africa. There he met his wife Anne "Jean" Williams, marrying her after ten days; it would have been sooner, but they needed permission from London.In 1946, he picked up where he had left off, and in the early 1950s he began working in British television, attaining a popularity greater than he had while playing supporting parts in such films as The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) and The Blue Lagoon (1949).This popularity enabled Barr to obtain better roles and command a higher salary for his films of the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the films in which he appeared during this period were The Dam Busters (1955), Room in the House (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Next to Next Time (1960), Billy Liar (1963), The First Great Train Robbery (1979) and Octopussy (1983). On television, he appeared in Doctor Who in 1967 as Hobson in the serial entitled The Moonbase; in the 1970 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "You Can Always Find a Fall Guy" and appeared once in The Avengers. In the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Barr voiced the role of Gamling.
Filmography
all 78
Movies 65
TV Shows 13
Narrator 1
Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
Octopussy (1983)
The Godsend (1980)
Home Before Midnight (1979)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
The Mackinnons (1977)
Days of Hope (1975)
The Venturers (1975)
The Black Windmill (1974)
House of Whipcord (1974)
Location North Sea (1974)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Crown Court (1972)
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
The Vortex (1969)
Department S (1969)
Guns in the Heather (1969)
The Main Chance (1969)
A Beast with Two Backs (1968)
The Great Pony Raid (1968)
Doctor Who: The Moonbase (1967)
In Two Minds (1967)
Ring of Spies (1964)
Billy Liar (1963)
On the Run (1963)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Valiant (1962)
The Avengers (1961)
Urge to Kill (1960)
Next to No Time (1958)
Lady of Vengeance (1957)
At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
Saint Joan (1957)
It's Never Too Late (1956)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955)
Room in the House (1955)
The Dam Busters (1955)
All Living Things (1955)
The Brain Machine (1955)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
Time Is My Enemy (1954)
Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)
Duel in the Jungle (1954)
Escape by Night (1953)
Black 13 (1953)
The Vanquished (1953)
The Intruder (1953)
Sailor of the King (1953)
Black Orchid (1953)
Murder at the Grange (1952)
King of the Underworld (1952)
The Three Hostages (1952)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
Death of an Angel (1952)
You're Only Young Twice (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
To Have and to Hold (1951)
Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Golden Arrow (1949)
Adam and Evelyne (1949)
Man on the Run (1949)
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
Contraband (1940)
Let's Be Famous (1939)
Marigold (1938)
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Star of the Circus (1938)
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
The Show Goes On (1937)
Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936)
Things to Come (1936)
Cash (1933)
Meet My Sister (1933)
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GenderMale
Birthday1908-02-13
Deathday1985-08-29 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceAkola, India
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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