Patrick Barr

Patrick David Barr (13 February 1908 – 29 August 1985) was a British actor.

Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types. Barr served as an ambulance driver in Africa during the Second World War, refusing to carry a weapon as he was a conscientious objector. It was in Africa where he met his wife Anne "Jean" Williams, marrying her after ten days; it would have been sooner, but they had to get permission from London. They stayed together ever afterwards.

In 1946 he picked up where he left off, and in the early 1950s he began working in British television, attaining popularity that had undeservedly eluded him while playing supporting parts in such films as The Frightened Lady (1941) and The Blue Lagoon (1949).

This latter-day fame enabled Barr to insist upon better roles and command a higher salary for his films of the 1950s and 1960s: among the films in which he appeared during this period were The Dam Busters (1955), Room in the House (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Next to Next Time (1960), Billy Liar (1963), The First Great Train Robbery (1978) and Octopussy (1983). He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1967 as Hobson in the serial entitled The Moonbase; and appeared once in The Avengers. In the 1981 BBC4 radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Barr voiced the role of Gamling.

In 1985 Patrick Barr died in London, at the age of 77.

External links

• Patrick Barr at the Internet Movie Database

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