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Actor Born: August 29, 1912 in New York City, NY Death: June 6, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, CA Biography:Actor "Barry Sullivan" was a theater usher and department store employee at the time he made his first Broadway appearance in 1936. His "official" film debut was in the 1943 Western "Woman of the Town", though in fact Sullivan had previously appeared in a handful of two-reel comedies produced by the Manhattan-based Educational Studios in the late '30s. A bit too raffish to be a standard leading man, Sullivan was better served in tough, aggressive roles, notably the title character in 1947's "The Gangster" and the boorish Tom Buchanan in the 1949 version of "The Great Gatsby". One of his better film assignments of the 1950s was as the "Howard Hawks"-style movie director in "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952). Sullivan continued appearing in movie roles of varying importance until 1978. A frequent visitor to television, "Barry Sullivan" starred as Sheriff Pat Garrett in the 1960s Western series "The Tall... Full Biography
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