Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author.
Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film.
On television she is perhaps best known for her portrayal, between 1975 and 1978, of the wife of the namesake captain in the detective sitcom Barney Miller. Barrie also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1971 for originating the role of Sarah in Stephen Sondheim's Company.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.826 |
| Birthday | 1931-05-23 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Барбара Барри, Барбара Бэрри, |
1979
Breaking Away
7.11/250
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
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Breaking Away
1997
Hercules
7.505/7168
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along...
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Hercules
1999
Judy Berlin
5.8/10
Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lone...
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Judy Berlin
1978
Child of Glass
5.636/11
Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-o...
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Child of Glass
1987
End of the Line
5.5/12
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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End of the Line
2011
Harvest
4.8/5
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplift...
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Harvest
2009
Frame Of Mind
5.3/9
A New Jersey police detective comes across new evidence in the Kennedy assassination.
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Frame Of Mind
2011
Twelve Thirty
5.6/7
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled...
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Twelve Thirty
1964
One Potato, Two Potato
6.8/14
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for cust...
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One Potato, Two Potato
1990
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
0/0
The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town ecce...
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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
1979
The Bell Jar
3.8/3
Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New...
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The Bell Jar
1982
Two of a Kind
0/0
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things tha...
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Two of a Kind
1982
Not Just Another Affair
4.333/3
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becom...
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Not Just Another Affair
1987
Real Men
6.268/69
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
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Real Men
1978
Summer of My German Soldier
6.286/7
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and...
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Summer of My German Soldier
1981
The Children Nobody Wanted
6.2/6
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the yo...
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The Children Nobody Wanted
1986
Vital Signs
0/0
Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical...
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Vital Signs
1985
The Execution
7.3/3
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...
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The Execution
1994
My Breast
0/0
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life str...
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My Breast
1988
My First Love
10/1
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thi...
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My First Love
1982
Barefoot In the Park
5/2
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have jus...
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Barefoot In the Park
2000
$pent
5/1
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
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$pent
1971
The Rank and File
5/2
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike,...
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The Rank and File
1988
Winnie
7.7/3
Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through her...
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Winnie
1956
Giant
7.6/670
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m...
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Giant
2013
Six by Sondheim
7.313/24
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
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Six by Sondheim
1998
A Chance of Snow
6/9
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and daughters for a flight to her mother's home. At the a...
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A Chance of Snow
1982
Working
4.3/3
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a s...
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Working
1970
Original Cast Album: Company
7.412/17
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his dir...
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Original Cast Album: Company
1980
To Race The Wind
8.5/4
A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.
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To Race The Wind
2020
Significant Other
0/0
All of Jordan Berman’s best friends are setting a date…and he can’t even get one. Now when he needs brunch plans, emergency dating advice, or just som...
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Significant Other
1972
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
5/1
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
2018
Above All Things
7/2
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forc...
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Above All Things
1990
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
4.5/2
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1975
For the Use of the Hall
6/1
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty...
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For the Use of the Hall
2009
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
5.3/103
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
9/1
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a...
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
1988
After the Rain
0/0
A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The marriage is strong and bears four children, but Annie...
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After the Rain
1977
Tell Me My Name
0/0
Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption w...
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Tell Me My Name
1999
30 Days
2/1
Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is getting a quickie wedding. Jordan panics and breaks up...
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30 Days
1963
The Caretakers
6.2/11
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
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The Caretakers
1980
Private Benjamin
5.938/364
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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Private Benjamin
2023
Things Like This
2/1
When two guys with the same name start falling in love it seems like everything has aligned for them to be together. But is fate ever exactly how you...
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Things Like This
1993
The Odd Couple: Together Again
0/0
Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days, so that she can plan the wedding herself, wi...
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The Odd Couple: Together Again
2004
Second Best
5.5/1
Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly succes...
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Second Best
1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero
0/0
The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it sho...
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