Barry Clifton

Acting

Barry Clifton

Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA

Barry recently had the privilege of performing with Academy Award winning actress Tatum O'Neal, John Corbett, and Ted McGinley in God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness and has appeared in a multitude of independent short films, spec films, including Chop with Natalie Canerday, and several student films with local university graduate students over the last 3 years. On stage, Barry became an Equity Membership Candidate while performing in Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and West Side Story in 2016. He has also appeared in two World Premier plays, Karski's Message based on the life of Jan Karski and Mrs. Miniver based on the Academy Award winning film of 1942. Barry began acting at age 9, performing in several musicals at The University of Arkansas of Fort Smith. When aged 15, he set acting aside and began following a "Long and Winding Road". Finally, in 1991, after many years of life and loss, he began the journey back home, signing with a local talent agency in Little Rock, AR. He was fortunate enough to get some work, even earning SAG eligibility in 2000 after working on Chasing the Dragon, starring Lisa Marie. In 2014, nearly 40 years after his last play, he returned to the stage as Duncan in The Savage Muse production of Macbeth. After that, the fire was rekindled. His [mis]adventures during the first 30 years of his life, coupled with the personal growth and healing over the last 25 years, have provided him an incomparable platform on which to build unique and rich characters. He has reclaimed his passion and is looking forward to bringing new characters to life to an ever widening audience.

Acting credits

Hellfire poster
5.3

A drifter with a mysterious past arrives in a small town and finds the residents in the grip of a ruthless crime boss and realizes he has to help them.

Hellfire

2026

Sovereign poster
6.7

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as Jerry’s ideology consumes them, they are set on a collision course with a police chief who has spent his life upholding the rules that Jerry has spent his tearing down.

Sovereign

2025

Mindcage poster
5.9

Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.

Mindcage

2022

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness poster
6.5

Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

2018

Mouse poster
9.0

Callie and Minnie’s relationship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer before their senior year of high school. Left rudderless without her charismatic best friend, Minnie starts to form a complicated friendship with Callie’s mother.

Mouse

2026

Good Time Charley poster
NR

After exposing a comet conspiracy, astronomer Charley Codwell must redeem himself, uncover the truth, and stop mass hysteria before it's too late.

Good Time Charley

2025

10/31 poster
4.6

A Halloween treat bag of all the things that go bump in the night. From masked killers to scarecrows, witches and tricksters. There’s a scare for everyone in this anthology of horror and the macabre from the creators of ‘The Barn’ and ‘Volumes of Blood'.

10/31

2017

Bury the Hatchet poster
NR

Mable Manden, the wealthy matriarch of the Manden family, is dead. Now her relatives, a group of misfits and idiots, are in a mad dash to the death for all her money. Can the unorthodox detective Nemo Smithfield solve the mystery before the entire Manden clan winds up dead?

Bury the Hatchet

2019

No artwork available
NR

A mysterious mermaid trapped and forgotten for years in the water tower of a small Southern town.

The Tower

In His Name poster
NR

Long-time best friends Lisa and Samantha stop to rescue an abused woman to return her home, only to find that they've been deceived by a family full of dangerous religious zealots with their own Biblical interpretations.

In His Name

Mudpuppy poster
NR

A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. 

Mudpuppy

The Wizard in the Alley poster
NR

A fantasy-obsessed boy forms an unexpected friendship with a real wizard after being replaced as the Dungeon Master in his DnD club. The two go on a fantastical adventure together through the modern world which gives them both a new sense of fulfillment.

The Wizard in the Alley

2026