Ivor Barry (12 April 1919 – 12 December 2006) was a Welsh film and television actor.
Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his acting career. After bit parts in England, he moved to Canada in the early 1950s where he also wrote and adapted scripts for radio as well acting in television. He eventually moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, and made many television and film appearances over the next 25 years.
He played the part of Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet (Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science.
Barry's television appearances included Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, Punky Brewster, and Highway to Heaven.
He died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on 12 December 2006, aged 87.
Filmography Under Capricorn (1949) – 1st Guard in Hall (uncredited) Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) – Interviewer The King's Pirate (1967) – Cloudsly The Scorpio Letters (1967) – Rt. Hon. John Murney In Enemy Country (1968) – Air Marshal Evelyn The Lawyer (1970) – Wyler The Andromeda Strain (1971) – Murray (uncredited) Carola (TV – 1973) – Parmentier Herbie Rides Again (1974) – Chauffeur Lost in the Stars (1974) – Carmichael The Dove (1974) – Kenniston The Island at the Top of the World (1974) – The Butler To Be or Not to Be (1983) – General Hobbs Weird Science (1985) – Henry Donnelly Action Jackson (1988) – Stuffy Old Guy
Selected TV series CBC Summer Theatre (1955) – (1 episode) – the bishop On Camera (1957) – (1 episode) – Duke A Midsummer Theatre (1958) – (1 episode) – role unknown First Performance (1955 – 1959) – (2 episodes) – role unknown The Unforeseen (1958 – 1960) – (6 episode) – Roles Unknown General Motors Theatre (1956 – 1960 ) – (20 episodes) – different character in each episode Hudson's Bay (1959) – (3 episode) – Roger Phipps/The Director/The Governor R.C.M.P. (1960) – (1 episode) – Lee Fletcher First Person (1960 – 1961 ) – (2 episode) – unknown role/Prince of Milan Festival ( 1960 – 1967) – (12 episodes) – various characters Quest (1962 – 1963) – (4 episode) – unknown role/Professor Bjoernson/unknown role The Forest Rangers (1963) – (1 episode) – Professor Black Scarlett Hill (1963) – (2 episode) – Elston/Walter Pendleton Playdate (1962 – 1964) – (6 episode) – various roles Moment of Truth (1964) – (unknown episode) – Dr. Russell Wingate Seaway (1966) – (2 episodes) – Huberman Laredo (1966) – (1 episode) – Count Frollo The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) – (1 episode) – Freuchen-Nagy Run for Your Life (1966) – (1 episode) – Dr. McEwen 12 O’Clock High (1966) – (1 episode) – Air Marshal Kingsford Daniel Boone (1966 – 1969) – (4 episodes) – President Washington/British Commandant/Commodore Morrison/Hamilton Bonanza (1966-1972) – (2 episodes) – Morgan / Preacher The Flying Nun (1967) – (1 episode) – Bishop Dillion Love on a Rooftop (1967) – (1 episode) – Dean Claridge Bewitched (1971) – (2 episodes) – Chamberlain The Partridge Family (1972) – (1 episode) – Mr. Hensley The Starlost 1974 - Episode: "Space Precinct" - Chief Rathe Masters The Streets of San Francisco (1974 – 1977) – (2 episodes) – Raymond Howard/Judge Dudley Cramer Hawaii Five-O (1974) – (1 episode) – S.N. Savage/Dempster The Rockford Files (1976) – Cryder Barnaby Jones (1978) – (1 episode) – Dr. Kirby Father Murphy (1982) – (1 episode) – Butler The A-Team (1983) – (1 episode) – old man in cab Matt Houston (1985) – (1 episode) – Lloyd Hutchins Hotel (1985 – 1986) – (2 episodes) – Byron Singer/Alan Mahoney Highway to Heaven (1984 – 1987) – (3 episodes) – Dr. Erhardt / Parks – Butler / Joseph Jake and the Fatman (1988) – (1 episode) – Edward
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