Acting

Barry Bell

Born 1951-06-22 · Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Barry Bell is an American film, television, stage and voice actor. Bell is best known for portraying Steve Gayton from Stephen King's (1986) film Maximum Overdrive, Barnett Gibons from This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) film, Rocco Petrone from HBO's From the Earth to the Moon 1998, Saul Hertz from Morning (2000) film, Wilkinson from Bruno (2000) film, Lt. Feuer from One of Her Own 1994 (TV) film, Dugan from Legacy 1999 and as Mason, CIA from Target Earth a 1998 TV film.

Acting credits

Maximum Overdrive poster
5.8

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Maximum Overdrive

1986

Radioland Murders poster
5.8

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Radioland Murders

1994

Trick or Treat poster
6.1

Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of his unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings the rocker back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...It's life and death.

Trick or Treat

1986

This World, Then the Fireworks poster
5.3

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder.

This World, Then the Fireworks

1997

Twilight Man poster
6.4

Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when he goes for his annual check up, things go wrong. Someone is tampering with his computer files and all his tests are bad. He is admitted to the hospital and dragged off to the county hospital late that night for a brain operation that he does not need. His electronic records are changing. He gets cable he did not order and then his girlfriend is murdered in his car. Someone is trying to ruin the life of Cooper, and he has to find out who and why before the police catch up to him.

Twilight Man

1996

Doomsday Man poster
5.5

After his wife is killed researching a deadly virus, a doctor, out of anger and guilt, infects himself with the virus and threatens the world.

Doomsday Man

2000

Love-Struck poster
4.8

Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?

Love-Struck

1997

One of Her Own poster
7.0

A rookie female cop, raped by a fellow officer, risks her career and her life when she reports the attack. Based on a true story.

One of Her Own

1994

A Different Kind of Christmas poster
4.9

When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.

A Different Kind of Christmas

1996

Chain Gang poster
10.0

The year is 1979. The man is Mac McPherson (Earl Owensby), a construction worker who is headed toward a new job in Georgia. A tough but good man, McPherson is framed for murder and sentenced to the famous Black Creek Prison Farm, from which there is no escape...

Chain Gang

1984

Perfect Crime poster
6.2

Mitzi Kapture portrays a military investigator trying to convict an officer of killing his wife. Convinced the officer committed the crime but hindered by lack of physical evidence (including a body), she must interview military personnel who have differing views of the events and circumstances surrounding the murder.

Perfect Crime

1997

To Dance with Olivia poster
8.0

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.

To Dance with Olivia

1997

Terror in the Night poster
6.0

A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.

Terror in the Night

1994

The Electric Chair poster
3.4

The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it?

The Electric Chair

1976

The White Girl poster
10.0

A female law student with a bright future gets drawn into the world of cocaine after trying it at college.

The White Girl

1990

The Perfect Daughter poster
5.0

Alexandra Michaelson has spent two years on the city streets as a runaway, but she awakens after an accident with no memory of her recent past. Her family welcomes her back, but soon she's visited by a man who claims he's her boyfriend. While trying to rekindle her memory, he tells Alexandra that somewhere she has hidden $100,000 stolen from a dangerous drug dealer.

The Perfect Daughter

1996