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Barry Brown

  • Born: Apr 19, 1951 in San Jose, California
  • Died: May 25, 1978 in Los Angeles, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Western
  • Career Highlights: Daisy Miller, Flesh
  • First Major Screen Credit: Flesh (1968)

Biography

The brother of actress Marilyn Brown, Barry Brown was 17 when he made his screen bow in Andy Warhol's Flesh. Brown's breakthrough role was Civil War draft dodger Drew Dixon in the 1972 sleeper Bad Company. His co-star was Jeff Bridges, a close friend whom Brown lionized in an essay written for Danny Peary's 1978 compendium Close-Ups; it was but one of many published works for Brown, who in addition to his acting accomplishments was also a noted film historian. After co-starring as Fred Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's uneven 1974 cinemadaptation of Daisy Miller, Brown slowly drifted away from show business. Barry Brown was 27 when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
 
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Barry Brown (April 19, 1951June 25, 1978), also known as Donald Barry Brown, was an American actor, and brother of the late actress Marilyn Brown and the writer James Brown.

Born in San Jose, California, Brown began his acting career as a child of five and took part in many television and live performances. He was a gifted young man born with a genius I.Q. and exerted himself in the manner of a child prodigy, early on appearing with Van Johnson in a stage production of "The Music Man" at the age of ten. He was 18 when he made his first major screen debut in "Halls Of Anger" (1969). Brown's breakthrough role was as the American Civil War draft dodger Drew Dixon in the 1972 critically acclaimed sleeper Bad Company, in which he co-starred with Jeff Bridges. The 70's rock and roll group would take their name and be inspired for their first album and pen their hit single "Bad Company", directly from this film.

After playing Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's 1974 film Daisy Miller, Brown slowly drifted away from show business. He appeared in only a few other movies with small roles, including the Joe Dante cult film "Piranha". He kept up his correspondence and his unanimously recognized expertise on film history throughout his life and was a leading authority on acting and its players. Fortune took an ever decreasing turn for the very sensitive young man, and in June of 1978, Brown committed suicide, by means of a gun, in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California.

Barry Brown was also the author of a critical, unpublished book called "Unsung Heroes of the Horrors" - a compendious work dedicated to memorializing the lives of certain well-known (although not famous) B-movie actors and actresses.

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