The best Don Barry’s action movies

Don Barry

Don Barry

11/01/1912- 17/07/1980
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Hooper

Hooper
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 28/07/1978
  • Character: Sheriff
Legendary stunt man, Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now
7.4/10
Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.

Boss Nigger

Boss Nigger
6.3/10
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

Alvarez Kelly

Alvarez Kelly
6.3/10
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.

Town Tamer

Town Tamer
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 07/07/1965
  • Character: Tex (as Donald Barry)
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.

The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1944
  • Character: Lt. Peter Vincent (as Donald Barry)
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Hot Lead & Cold Feet
6/10
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

Arizona Terrors

Arizona Terrors
5.2/10
Madden has forged a phony Spanish land grant and gets crooked gambler Halliday to pose as the heir....

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder
7.2/10
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

Fort Courageous

Fort Courageous
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/05/1965
  • Character: Captain Harvey
In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.

The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 06/08/1938
  • Character: Pete Mariola
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.

Frontier Vengeance

Frontier Vengeance
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 10/10/1940
  • Character: Jim Sanders
Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.

The Duke of West Point

The Duke of West Point
6.4/10
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

Panama Patrol

Panama Patrol
5.1/10
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Lightnin' in the Forest

Lightnin' in the Forest
6.9/10
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...

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