Barry Brown

Acting

Barry Brown

Born 1951-04-19 · San Jose, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barry Brown (April 19, 1951 – June 25, 1978) was an American author, playwright and actor who performed on stage and in television dramas and feature films, notably as Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974), adapted from the classic Henry James novella (1878). Bogdanovich praised Brown's contribution to the film, describing him as "the only American actor you can believe ever read a book." Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Brown (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Piranha poster
5.9

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Piranha

1978

Bad Company poster
6.4

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.

Bad Company

1972

Daisy Miller poster
6.3

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Daisy Miller

1974

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid poster
5.7

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

1972

Flesh poster
5.6

A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.

Flesh

1968

The Disappearance of Aimee poster
8.7

In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.

The Disappearance of Aimee

1976

The Birdmen poster
7.7

During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity and convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider in which they plan to escape.

The Birdmen

1973

The Ultimate Thrill poster
5.3

At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.

The Ultimate Thrill

1974

Halls of Anger poster
5.3

An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.

Halls of Anger

1970

Lawman Without a Gun poster
9.0

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

The Bravos poster
6.5

The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.

The Bravos

1972

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children poster
10.0

A hip psychiatrist teams up with an ex-addict to combat drug addiction in a small town in this pilot for "The Psychiatrist."

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children

1970

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NR

Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.

The Teen-Age Revolution

1965

Lapin 360 poster
6.5

Delia Peletier has been paid to have a child for a wealthy man who wants an heir. She has the baby and turns it over to her "employer," but subsequently decides she wants the child back. She hires three men to kidnap the child. The quartet hides out in the house of Bernard Lapin, a nuclear scientist they believe to be away on business. Lapin returns, however, and becomes romantically involved with Delia. Meanwhile, her three kidnappers turn on her when they learn she actually wants the child and not the ransom money as she claimed.

Lapin 360

1972

Premonition poster
5.5

A hippie student and his friends share deadly premonitions.

Premonition

1972

Behind the camera