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Patrick Barr is a Actor British born on 13 february 1908 at Akola (Inde)

Patrick Barr

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Birth name Patrick David Barr
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 february 1908 at Akola (Inde)
Death 29 august 1985 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Patrick David Barr (13 February 1908 – 29 August 1985) was a British film and television 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. As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Barr helped people in the Blitz in London's East End before serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit in Africa. There 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 Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) 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 Randall & Hopkirk Deceased 1968 episode "You can always find a fallguy" (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Next to Next Time (1960), Billy Liar (1963), The First Great Train Robbery (1979) 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 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Barr voiced the role of Gamling.

Patrick Barr died in London in 1985 at the age of 77. His interment was in England.

Best films

The Longest Day (1962)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Patrick Barr (59 films)

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Octopussy
Octopussy (1983)
, 2h11
Directed by John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Steven Berkoff, Desmond Llewelyn, Kristina Wayborn
Roles British Ambassador
Rating64% 3.248593.248593.248593.248593.24859
British agent 009 is found dead at the British embassy in East Berlin, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg. MI6 immediately suspects Soviet involvement and, after seeing the real egg appear at an auction in London, sends James Bond—agent 007—to investigate and find out who the seller is. At the auction Bond is able to swap the real egg with the fake and engages in a bidding war with exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan, forcing Khan to pay £500,000 for the fake egg. Bond follows Khan back to his palace in Rajasthan, India, where Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon. Bond escapes with his Indian colleague Vijay, evading Khan's bodyguard Gobinda's attempts to kill them both. Bond is seduced by one of Khan's associates, Magda, and notices that she has a blue-ringed octopus tattoo. Magda steals the real Fabergé egg fitted with a listening device by Q, while Gobinda captures Bond and takes him to Khan's palace. After Bond escapes from his cell he listens in on the bug in the Fabergé egg and discovers that Khan is working with Orlov, a Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet control into Central Europe.
The First Great Train Robbery, 1h50
Directed by Michael Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Pamela Salem, Malcolm Terris
Roles Burke
Rating68% 3.447763.447763.447763.447763.44776
In 1854, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), to all appearances a charismatic and well-established member of London's high society, is secretly an opportunistic and cynical master thief. He plans to steal a shipment of gold (sent monthly to finance the Crimean War) travelling from London to Folkestone. The bank has taken strict precautions, including locking the gold in two heavy Chubb safes, each of which has two locks, requiring a total of four keys to open them. When a test robbery (using a hired stooge to test the security measures) goes awry, Pierce recruits his old acquaintance Robert Agar (Donald Sutherland), a pickpocket and screwsman. Pierce's mistress Miriam (Lesley-Anne Down), a beautiful actress, and his driver Barlow (George Downing) join the plot, and the guard to the safe car, Burgess (Michael Elphick), is also bribed into participation. Pierce plans the robbery in exquisite detail, and procures information on the security measures and locations of the keys. The executives of the bank who store the gold and arrange its transport, Mr. Henry Fowler and Mr. Edgar Trent, each possess a key; the other two are locked in a cabinet at the offices of the South Eastern Railway at the London Bridge train station. The keys are not to be stolen, but wax impressions are to be made of them in order to hide the robbers' intentions.
The Black Windmill, 1h46
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill
Roles Gen. St. John
Rating62% 3.148583.148583.148583.148583.14858
Two schoolboys are playing with a model plane on an abandoned military base in the English countryside. They are approached by two RAF personnel who rebuke them for trespassing, and take them to see their commanding officer. It soon becomes apparent that they are not really in the military and the two boys are kidnapped.
House of Whipcord, 1h42
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ray Brooks, Patrick Barr, Sheila Keith, Penny Irving, Ann Michelle, Ivor Salter
Roles Justice Bailey
Rating58% 2.904182.904182.904182.904182.90418
The film opens with a semi-nude young woman running down a highway and being picked up by a trucker.
The Satanic Rites of Dracula, 1h27
Directed by Alan Gibson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley, William Leo Franklyn, Freddie Jones, Richard Vernon
Roles Lord Carradine
Rating55% 2.751622.751622.751622.751622.75162
A Secret Service agent (Maurice O'Connell) barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are celebrated. Before he dies of his wounds, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society – a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist – are involved in the cult, led by Chin Yang (Barbara Yu Ling). Photos of the four dignitaries taken by the agent are developed, and a fifth photo, apparently showing an empty doorway, is assumed to be a mistake. In order to avoid any reprisals by the minister, secret service official Colonel Mathews (Richard Vernon) calls in Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray (Michael Coles) to work on the case independently. Murray (who had appeared in the preceding Dracula film) suggests consulting noted occult expert Professor Lorrimar Van Helsing (Peter Cushing).
The Flesh and Blood Show, 1h26
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jenny Hanley, Ray Brooks, Luan Peters, Candace Glendenning, Robin Askwith, Tristan Rogers
Roles Major Bell / Sir Arnold Gates
Rating54% 2.707082.707082.707082.707082.70708
A anonymous producer assembles a group of unemployed actors and actresses to be in a play, rehearsing in an abandoned theatre beside the sea. A murderer, who wears black gloves, kills all of the actors in various ways. The murderer is later revealed to have previously been an actor, who trapped his wife and her new lover in the wall, re-emerging 30 years later to commit murder again.
Last of the Long-haired Boys
Actors Richard Todd, Gillian Raine, Patrick Barr, Malcolm Tierney, Sonia Dresdel, Susan Jameson
Roles Conyers

After the end of the Second World War an RAF pilot struggles to adjust to civilian life.
Ring of Spies, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham
Roles Captain Warner
Rating64% 3.2463.2463.2463.2463.246
A dissatisfied Navy clerk begins handling secret documents when he is approached by secret Czech intelligence to hand over documents to them. Although he is being blackmailed, he agrees to do so while also being paid for the information. He begins an affair with the secretary who also has access to greater secret documents. Together, the couple continue to procure information for Czech intelligence while getting paid. Soon, the British government gets wind of their betrayal.
Billy Liar
Billy Liar (1963)
, 1h38
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Mona Washbourne, Finlay Currie, Leonard Rossiter, Gwendolyn Watts
Roles Inspector MacDonald
Rating72% 3.6457753.6457753.6457753.6457753.645775
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) lives in Yorkshire with his parents (Wilfred Pickles and Mona Washbourne) and grandmother (Ethel Griffies), and works as an undertakers' clerk overseen by the rigid Mr. Shadrack (Leonard Rossiter). Billy wishes to get away from his stifling job and family life. To escape the boredom of his humdrum existence, he constantly daydreams and fantasizes, often picturing himself as the ruler and military hero of an imaginary country called Ambrosia. He also makes up stories about himself and his family, causing him to be nicknamed "Billy Liar".
The Longest Day, 2h51
Directed by Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Radio, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Patrick Barr, Richard Burton, Lyndon Brook, Robert Mitchum
Roles Group Capt. J.N. Stagg (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.8493.8493.8493.8493.849
The movie is filmed in the style of a docudrama. Beginning in the days leading up to D-Day, it concentrates on events on both sides of the channel, such as the Allies waiting for the break in the poor weather and anticipating the reaction of the Axis forces defending northern France. The film pays particular attention to the decision by Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of SHAEF, to go after reviewing the initial bad-weather reports as well as reports about the divisions within the German High Command as to where an invasion might happen or what the response to it should be.
The Valiant, 1h30
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Political films
Actors John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, Liam Redmond, Leonardo Cortese
Roles Rev. Ellis
Rating65% 3.273863.273863.273863.273863.27386
Alexandria December, 1941. Two Italian frogmen are captured under suspicion of placing a mine under the HMS Valiant. They are brought onto the ship for questioning.
Urge to Kill, 59minutes
Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Patrick Barr, Wilfrid Brambell, Rita Webb
Roles Superintendent Allen
Rating60% 3.0477953.0477953.0477953.0477953.047795
While making her way home from the cinema one night in a particularly grey and drab town, a young woman is murdered in an unusually brutal and sadistic manner. Local suspicion immediately falls on Hughie (Knapp), a strangely behaved and not very bright local youth who has a habit of wandering aimlessly around the town at all hours randomly collecting stray bits and pieces, with a particular fondness for broken glass – which unfortunately for Hughie happens to have been one of the weapons used in the fatal attack.
Next to No Time, 1h33
Directed by Henry Cornelius
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Kenneth More, Betsy Drake, Roland Culver, Patrick Barr, Maureen Connell, Reginald Beckwith
Roles Jerry Lane
Rating57% 2.862682.862682.862682.862682.86268
A mild-mannered British planning engineer is sent across the Atlantic by his firm to negotiate a deal for which he feels hugely out of his depth. He finds however, that his personality changes in synchronization with a clock.