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

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 ''

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'' as did another talented female voice-over artist who he later worked with,

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. 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

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in 1942 just a few months after the United States entered the war. Barry started as a

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comic in the

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while serving in the

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during World War II and traveling with the

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(USO) along with

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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 Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million; for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she reign ...

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, Sammy Davis Jr.,

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and later

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. In 1966 Barry headlined the Dessert Inn variety musical sho
"Hello America,"
and later "Hooray For Hollywood," which were produced by Vegas extravaganza king

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. Later, for nearly a decade in the 1970s Barry provided the comedy opening act for Midnight Idol

, warming audiences at a variety of

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-owned Hotels (the Sands, The Dessert Inn and the Frontier).

Voice acting career

Since 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

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, Warner Bros.,

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, and

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. 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. (''

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'') mogul

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with the Hollywood-themed ''

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'' (1936), where he voiced actor

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, ''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

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) approached him at the bar after the show. He said they needed a deeply baritone voice for

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in a series of ''

Popeye Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.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

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and

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, which he did with gusto in countless ''

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'' and ''

'' cartoons. He also voiced

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stone in ''

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'' (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), '' 8 Ball Bunny'' (1950) and the star-studded ''

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'' (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

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show (October 26, 1952) with

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and Bergen's ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy. He also provided numerous voices for

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children's albums in the 1950s like "Bozo Under The Sea" with

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, ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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and Mr. Magoo. Barry also worked with well known voice actor

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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 ''

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'' in 1976. Previously he had also 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

in the B-movie ''

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'' (1948), and eleven years later he was reunited with her in what was perhaps his most famous role: bumbling band manager Beinstock in

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's comedy ''

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'' (1959). He appeared on ''

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'' in the 1950s. He also guest-starred on television series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Get Smart ''Get Smart'' is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s, with the release of the ''James Bond'' films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, an ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and in his final role as Jack Brice in the 1978 episode ''High Rollers'' of '' Flying High'' on

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. In 1963, Barry was cast as Harry in the episode "Has Anyone Seen Eddie?" of

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's ''

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'', with

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, an adaptation of the 1944

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of the same name.

Nightclub career

Barry also worked as a club entertainer and comedian in

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. He started working stand-up in Vegas in 1946 at the

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and the original Last Frontier, and later at the

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and the Hacienda Resort. He worked as the opening act for famous performers such as

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, and many more. He appeared with

at the height of Newton's popularity for more than a decade in the 1970s at the

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, Sands, and

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. Dave Barry also appeared regularly in comedy clubs across the USA: Chicago (

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), San Francisco (

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), New York (

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), Austin TX (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

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). Nightclub work in these glamorous cigarette smoke-filled showrooms paired Barry with top names of the period including Sammy Davis Jr.,

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Liberace Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordi ...

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, and

Tommy Dorsey Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombo ...

. In June 1949 Barry was flown in for a one-month engagement at the

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paired with

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(

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and

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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

Discography

Television

References

External links

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