Barry Kelley

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Biography

American actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 19 August 1908
  • Place of birth
  • Chicago
  • Death date
  • 1991-06-15
  • Death age
  • 83
  • Place of death
  • Woodland Hills· Los Angeles

Movies

TV

Trivia

On stage from 1930. Brought to Hollywood by director Elia Kazan in 1947.

Did his best work in westerns and films noir, often as corrupt lawmen or judges.

Trained for acting at Chicagos Goodman Theatre.

Kelleys gruff, authoritarian face is on the many political posters seen on the walls of streets in "West Side Story.".

Heavy-set actor who was wholly adept at portraying heavy-handed Hollywood heavies.

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