Patrick Barr

Patrick Barr

Infobox actor
name = Patrick Barr


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birthdate = birth date|1908|02|13|df=y
location = Akola, India
deathdate = death date and age|1985|08|29|1908|02|13|df=y
deathplace = London, England
occupation = actor
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spouse =

Patrick Barr (born 13 February 1908 — 29 August 1985) was a British actor born in Akola, India.

British actor Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with "The Merry Men of Sherwood" (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficient authority figures and "reliable friend" types, picking up where he left off in 1946 after six years of serving as an ambulance driver in Africa during the 2nd World War. Barr refused to carry a weapon as he was a conscientious objector. It was in Africa where he met his future wife Anne "Jean" Williams. After meeting, they were married after ten days, it would have been sooner but they had to get permission from London. They stayed together ever since.

In the early 1950s, he began working in British television, attaining popularity that had undeservedly eluded him while playing supporting parts in such films as "The Frightened Lady" (1941) and "The Blue Lagoon" (1949).

This latter-day fame enabled Barr to insist upon better roles and command a higher salary for his films of the 1950s and 1960s: among the films in which he appeared during this period were "The Dam Busters" (1955), "Saint Joan" (1957), "Next to Next Time" (1960), "Billy Liar" (1963), "The First Great Train Robbery" (1978) and "Octopussy" (1983). He also appeared in "Doctor Who" in 1967 as Hobson in the serial entitled "The Moonbase"; and appeared once in "The Avengers". In the 1981 BBC4 radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings", Barr voiced the role of Gamling.

In 1985, Patrick Barr died in London, England at the age of 77.

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NAME=Patrick Barr
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=British actor
DATE OF BIRTH=February 13 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH=Akola, India
DATE OF DEATH=August 29 1985
PLACE OF DEATH=London, England


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