Dave Barry (born David Louis Siegel; August 26, 1918 – August 16, 2001) was an American actor and comedian.

He is best known for his role as the band manager Mister Beinstock in the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like It Hot. His other film appearances include Playgirl, High Society, Voice in the Mirror, Spinout and Ladies of the Chorus.

Barry voiced characters in over fifty cartoons, mostly uncredited. He was one of several actors to voice the villainous Bluto in the Popeye film series.

Biography Early life Dave Barry (family name David Siegel, last name legally changed in the 1940s) began his performing career in the 1930s at the age of sixteen with parts in radio and doing voice work for cartoons. The son of a furniture store owner, he made his debut on the radio talent show Major Bowes Amateur Hour as did Sara Berner, another talented female voice-over artist with whom he later worked. He built up a reputation as a stand-up comedian, entertaining troops during his military service in World War II on shows like Command Performance with Mary Pickford in 1942 just a few months after the United States entered the war.

Barry started as a Borscht Belt comic in the Catskill Mountains while serving in the United States Army during World War II and traveling with the United Service Organizations (USO) along with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton and many celebrities of the time. Starting in the mid-1940s, Barry became something of a fixture in Las Vegas just as the city was starting to become famous, playing engagements at the Flamingo, Desert Inn and the El Rancho Hotel, performing with celebrities of the day such as Betty Grable, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Rose Marie, Sammy Davis Jr., Debbie Reynolds and later Wayne Newton.

In 1966, Barry headlined the Desert Inn variety musical show "Hello America", and later "Hooray for Hollywood", which were produced by Vegas extravaganza king Donn Arden. Later, for nearly a decade in the 1970s, Barry provided the opening act for Midnight Idol Wayne Newton, warming audiences at a variety of Howard Hughes-owned Hotels (The Desert Inn, the Sands and the Frontier).

Voice acting career Because Barry excelled at mimicry and mastered an endless stream of accents/dialects and offbeat sounds, when he moved to Hollywood in the early 1940s, he sought out more cartoon voice work with Columbia, Warner Bros., Disney, Republic Pictures, and Screen Gems. He became sought after as an animation voice actor in the mid 1930s at the age of just 18, hired by the legendary Warner Bros. (Merrie Melodies) mogul Leon Schlesinger with the Hollywood-themed The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936), where he voiced actor Ned Sparks, Porky's Road Race (1937) and then a year later with Disney with the celebrity-filled Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938). Barry partnered with many of the most creative minds of early animation, and animated voice work (especially celebrities) became a lucrative side gig supplementing his comedy résumé and income. During a 1942 Miami stand-up performance, he was doing his stand-up act at a hotel when a man from the audience (who worked for the Miami-based Famous Studios) approached him at the bar after the show. He said they needed a deeply baritone voice for Popeye's nemesis Bluto in a series of Popeye features. Barry got the Miami job starting with the patriotic Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue (1943). Barry provided the deeply baritone swaggering voice for Bluto between 1942 and 1944 in six Popeye cartoons.

Barry's work in cartoons grew as animation gained popularity, voicing countless credited (and mostly uncredited) features. His most sought-after skill was uncannily impersonating celebrities of the period, including Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, James Cagney and Clark Gable, which he did with gusto in countless Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. He also voiced Elmer Fuddstone in Pre-Hysterical Hare (1958), standing in for Arthur Q. Bryan when he was ill and not able to voice him. For Looney Tunes, Dave Barry became best known for numerous appearances of Humphrey Bogart and other classic celebrities in cartoons such as Bacall to Arms (1946), Slick Hare (1947), 8 Ball Bunny (1950) and the star-studded Hollywood Steps Out (1941). He also voiced many nameless background characters.

Barry also performed a series of distinctive radio announcer voices for the famous "Marilyn Monroe is Getting Married" radio episode on the Edgar Bergen show (October 26, 1952) with Marilyn Monroe and Bergen's ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.

He also provided numerous voices for Capitol Records children's albums in the 1950s like "Bozo Under the Sea" with Pinto Colvig, Bugs Bunny, Merrie Melodies, Pink Panther, Popeye the Sailor, Roland and Rattfink and Sniffles along with Elmer Fudd and Mr. Magoo.

Barry also worked with well known voice actor Daws Butler on a number of novelty records in the 1960s including Capitol Records' "Dog's Best Friend / H-H-Him".

His last voice-over role was on The Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show in 1976. Previously, he had voiced various spies in the Pink Panther short "Pinkfinger" in 1965.

Film and television career At the end of the 1940s, Barry began also to garner roles in both film and television. He appeared with Marilyn Monroe in the B-movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948), and 11 years later, he was reunited with her in what was perhaps his most famous role: bumbling band manager Beinstock in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959).

He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s. He also guest-starred on television series such as 87th Precinct, Green Acres, The Monkees, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Emergency!, and in his final role as Jack Brice in the 1978 episode High Rollers of Flying High on CBS.

In 1963, Barry was cast as Harry in the episode "Has Anyone Seen Eddie?" of Going My Way, with Gene Kelly, an adaptation of the 1944 film of the same name.

Nightclub career Barry also worked as a club entertainer and comedian in Las Vegas. He started working stand-up in Vegas in 1946 at the El Rancho Vegas and the original Last Frontier, and later at the El Cortez and the Hacienda Resort. He worked as the opening act for famous performers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and many more. He appeared with Wayne Newton at the height of Newton's popularity for more than a decade in the 1970s at the Frontier, Sands, and Desert Inn.

Barry also appeared regularly in comedy clubs across the U.S.: Chicago (Chez Paree); San Francisco (Bimbo's 365 Club); New York (Paramount Theatre); Austin Texas (The Paramount); Florida (The Americana); and Los Angeles (Billy Gray's Band Box, Slapsy Maxie's Nightclub, The Moulin Rouge, The Chi Chi, The Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, Charlie Foy's Supper Club, and Ciro's).

Nightclub work paired Barry with top names of the period, including Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Della Reese, Frank Sinatra, Liberace, The Four Step Brothers, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Tommy Dorsey. In June 1949, Barry was flown in for a one-month engagement at the London Palladium with The Marx Brothers (Harpo Marx and Chico Marx).

Personal life and death Barry was the father of five children (Alan, Kerry, Steve, Dana, and Wendy) and was married to his wife, singer Ginny (Ginger), for over 50 years until his death from cancer in 2001.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1942 Kickin' the Conga 'Round Bluto voiceuncredited Alona on the Sarong Seas Bluto voiceuncredited A Hull of a Mess Bluto voiceuncredited 1943 Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue Bluto voiceuncredited Too Weak to Work Bluto voiceuncredited 1944 Tangled Travels George Givot / Narrator / Babbling Voices / Mad Russian voiceuncredited 1945 Life with Feathers Radio Announcer voiceuncredited Goofy News Views Commentator / Professor Crackabone / Joe the Riveter / Moe / Husband / Wife / Footballers / Professor Baggysacks voiceuncredited Hot Foot Lights W.C. Fields / Jimmy Durante / Lew Lehr / Red Skelton voiceuncredited Hare Conditioned Store Manager voiceuncredited 1946 Bacall to Arms Bogey Gocart voiceuncredited 1947 Up n' Atom Narrator / Mouse / Lady Cat Puppet imitating Mae West / Cat imitating Charles Boyer voiceuncredited Slick Hare Humphrey Bogart voiceuncredited Kitty Caddy Bob Hope / Bing Crosby voiceuncredited Catch as Cats Can Frank Sinatra Canary voiceuncredited It's a Grand Old Nag Mister Retake voiceuncredited Joe Palooka In The Knockout Eddie Steele 1948 Topsy Turkey Indian / Turkey / Moose voiceuncredited Embraceable You The Comic uncredited Lo, the Poor BuffalBuffalo Billingsly / Buffalo voiceuncredited 1949 The Coo-Coo Bird Dog Parrot voiceuncredited Ladies of the Chorus Ripple the Decorator uncredited Curtain Razor Bingo the Parrot voiceuncredited 1950 What's Up, Doc? Al Jolson voiceuncredited 8 Ball Bunny Humphrey Bogart voiceuncredited 1954 Playgirl Jonathan Hughes, Photographer 1955 High Society Palumbo the Pianist 1957 Four Girls in Town Vince The Shadow on the Window Miller uncredited 1958 Voice in the Mirror Quintet Pianist Pre-Hysterical Hare Elmer Fudd / Elmer Fuddstone voiceuncredited 1959 Some Like It Hot Beinstock 1965 Pinkfinger Spy voice 1966 Spinout Harry 1969 The Deadwood Thunderball Rattfink voice 1974 How to Seduce a Woman Ticket Seller 1979 Disco Sexpot

Discography Year Title Role Notes 1947 Bugs Bunny and the Tortoise Sneezing Duck 1948 Bozo Under the Sea swordfish, stingray, whale, clam, octopus, sailfish 1948 Hershel In Hollywood himself 1953 Cock-a-Doodle Benny/Brand Me with Your Kisses himself with Buddy Bregman 1955 The Daffy Duck Song Daffy Duck 1955 Elmer Fudd Bugs Bunny 1955 Bugs Bunny Easter Song and Mr. Easter Rabbit Bugs Bunny 1955 Sylvester the Cat / Sylvester the Cat's Nine Lives Sylvester the Cat 1956 Do-It-Yourself Psychiatry himself 1956 Out Of This World With Flying Saucers himself with Sara Berner 1959 The Dave Barry Laugh Show himself 1960 Laughs for Losers himself 1965 Dog's Best Friend / H-H-Him The Reporter with Daws Butler 1968 The Interpreter. Dave Barry at the United Nations himself 1968 It's Fun to Be Jewish himself 1972 Will The Real Howard Hughes Please Stand Up? himself with Selma Diamond 1973 Golda Goes to Washington/Nixon Goes to Tel Aviv himself

Television Year Title Role Notes 1955 The Danny Thomas Show episode: "The Benefit Show" 1957 M Squad Richard Lowell episode: "The Specialists" 1960 77 Sunset Strip Himself episode: "The Dresden Doll" 1961 87th Precinct Doug Quinn episode: "Run, Rabbit, Run" 1963 Going My Way Harry episode: "Has Anyone Seen Eddie?" 1967 The Monkees Inspector Blount S1:E26, "Monkee Chow Mein" 1969 The Pink Panther Show Secret Agent #1 / Secret Agent #2 voiceepisode: "Pickled Pink/Ape Suzette+/Pinkfinger" Green Acres Insurance Man episode: "You and Your Big Shrunken Head" 1976 The Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show Various characters voice 1976–1977 Switch Room Clerk / Wortheimer 2 episodes 1977 Emergency! Tom Jensen episode: "An Ounce of Prevention"

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