Tony Barry

Acting

Born August 28, 1941, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Tony Barry (1941 - 2022) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.

Filmography

• 2025Remember Belsen — Narrator
• Bay of Fires — Joseph
• Faraway Downs — Sergeant Callahan
• The End — Willie
• Total Control — Phillip Anderson
• Harrow — Jack Twine
• 2017Grace — Mr. Symonds
• 2017Nobody's Child — Hank
• 2013Mystery Road — Sarge
• 2013One Answer to Cancer — Narrator
• The Time of Our Lives — Ray Tivolli
• Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo — Sir Frank Packer
• 2011Rest for the Wicked — Murray
• 2010Home by Christmas — Ed
• Dirt Game — Alec Nolan
• False Witness — The Libertine
• 2008Australia — Sergeant Callahan
• 2008The Ballad of Betty & Joe — Joe
• 2007Cross Life — Bill
• 2006Gone — UTE Driver
• 2006Solo — Louis
• 2006The Silence — Dennis Riordan
• 2005Hell Has Harbour Views — Frank Flannery
• 2005Lady Vengeance — Jenny's Adoptive Father
• 2004The Widower
• 2003BlackJack — Joe Bueneroti
• 2003Lennie Cahill Shoots Through — Lennie
• 2003Ned — Bartender
• 2003The Night We Called It a Day — Ralph Blue
• 2001La spagnola — Dr. Knuckey
• 2001Mullet — Col Maloney
• Grass Roots — Drew Leonard
• 1999Change Of Heart — Mervyn
• 1999Fresh Air — Bob
• 1999Paperback Hero
• All Saints — Frank O'Hara
• 1997Doing Time for Patsy Cline — Dwayne
• 1997The Last of the Ryans — Father Brosnan
• 1997The Rainbow Warrior — Greenpeace Activist
• Halifax f.p. — Bob 'Dizzy' Gillespie
• 1994The Last Tattoo — James Carroll
• The Man from Snowy River — Bernard Hardwick
• 1993Absent Without Leave — Peter
• 1993Jack Be Nimble — Clarrie
• 1993Joyful and Triumphant — George Bishop
• 1993Typhon's People — The Minister
• 1991Old Scores — Barry Brown
• Police Rescue — Clyde
• 1991Rose Against the Odds — Jack Rennie
• Soldier Soldier — Ron Jenkins
• 1989Shadow of the Cobra
• 1988Never Say Die — Insp. Evans
• 1988Shame — Tim Curtis
• 1988The Man From Snowy River II — Jacko
• 1988Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller — Mad Mile
• 1987Initiation — Pat
• 1986BabaKiueria — Father (Mr. Smith)
• Cyclone Tracy — Mick Brennan
• 1986Frog Dreaming — Gaza
• 1986I Own the Racecourse — Bert Hammond
• 1986Pallet on the Floor — Larkman
• 1986Platypus Cove — Frank Nelson
• The Flying Doctors — Bruce Logan
• 1986The Surfer — Calhoun
• 1986Two Friends — Charlie
• 1985Archer's Adventure — Squatter
• 1985Keiron: The First Voyager — Moulen
• 1985The Coca-Cola Kid — Bushman
• 1984The Settlement — The Sergeant
• 1983Midnite Spares — Howard
• Scales of Justice — Nipper Jackson
• 1982Dead Easy — Ozzie
• 1982We of the Never Never — Mac
• 1981Goodbye Pork Pie — John
• 1980Beyond Reasonable Doubt — Det. John Hughes
• 1980Hard Knocks — Barry
• 1980The Earthling — Red
• 1979Demolition
• 1979The Odd Angry Shot — Black Ronnie
• 1978Little Boy Lost — Const. O'Day
• 1978Newsfront — Greasy
• 1978Puzzle — Det. Const. Langdon
• 1978The Irishman — Rob Dalgleish
• 1977The Mango Tree — Tommy Smith
• 1977The Picture Show Man — Policeman
• 1977Wild Man — Dombey Morgan
• 1976Break of Day — Joe
• 1976The Haunting of Hewie Dowker — Police Officer
• The Sullivans — Ginger
• Almost — Dr. Khan