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Barry Atwater

Biography

Barry Atwater

Overview

  • Born
    May 16, 1918 · Denver, Colorado, USA
  • Died
    May 24, 1978 · Los Angeles, California, USA (stroke)
  • Birth name
    Garrett Barry Atwater Jr.
  • Height
    6′ 2½″ (1.89 m)

Biography

  • Barry Atwater was born on May 16, 1918 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), One Step Beyond (1959) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). He died on May 24, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Family

  • Parents
      Garrett Barry Atwater Sr.
      Wilhelmina Thudichum

Trivia

  • Tall, sinewy, rather hard-faced character actor, ideally suited to play tough cops, gunslingers and even zombies. Best as the vampire Janos Skorzeny in the 'Kolchak' pilot movie The Night Stalker (1972) and the venerable father of Vulcan philosophy, Surak, in The Savage Curtain (1969).
  • Taught recording and mixing techniques at the UCLA sound department from 1948 to 1952. Had a small role in the Oscar-winning short student film A Time Out of War (1954) which led to acting on the legit stage and for television (from 1955).
  • He had been battling terminal cancer at the time of his death from a stroke.
  • Son of landscape painter Barry Atwater (1892-1956).
  • He died eight days after his 60th birthday.

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