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Byron Barr is a Actor American born on 18 august 1917 at Corning (USA)
Byron Barr (August 18, 1917 – November 3, 1966) sometimes billed as Byron S. Barr, was an American actor born in Corning, Iowa.
Barr was in 17 films in his career. He is perhaps best known for his role as Nino Zachetti in Double Indemnity, his first appearance. He also had a role in films like Love Letters, Pitfall, Down Dakota Way, They Made Me a Killer, and The File on Thelma Jordon.
Barr retired from acting in 1951.
Barr died on November 3, 1966 in Sacramento County, California, he was 49 years old.
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 august 1917 at Corning (USA)
Death 3 november 1966 (at 49 years) at Sacramento County (USA)
Birth 18 august 1917 at Corning (USA)
Death 3 november 1966 (at 49 years) at Sacramento County (USA)
Barr was in 17 films in his career. He is perhaps best known for his role as Nino Zachetti in Double Indemnity, his first appearance. He also had a role in films like Love Letters, Pitfall, Down Dakota Way, They Made Me a Killer, and The File on Thelma Jordon.
Barr retired from acting in 1951.
Barr died on November 3, 1966 in Sacramento County, California, he was 49 years old.
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb, Stacy Harris
Roles Policeman
Rating64%
Témoin d'un meurtre, sœur Augustine parvient à identifier l'un des malfaiteurs. Elle informe aussitôt le commissaire Goddard. Ce dernier décide de s'infiltrer dans la bande qui projette de faire un hold-up.
Appointment with Danger (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Stacy Harris, Jack Webb
Roles Policeman
Rating64%
The film tells of Al Goddard (Alan Ladd), a U.S. Postal Inspector of the United States Postal Inspection Service. He's assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered another U.S. Postal Inspector.
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Steven Rauber
Roles McCary
Rating68%
Thelma Jordon shows up late one night in the office of married assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall with a story about prowlers and burglars. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in a love affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is hiding something.
Down Dakota Way (1949)
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Elisabeth Risdon, Dale Evans, Gig Young, Byron Barr, Roy Barcroft
Roles Steve Paxton
Rating60%
Roy Rogers is called in to investigate after the murder of a veterinarian by a rancher named McKenzie who is illegally selling cattle with hoof-and-mouth disease.
Pitfall (1948)
, 1h26Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel, Ann Doran
Roles Bill Smiley
Rating70%
Living in Los Angeles, John Forbes (Powell), is a bored man who works for an insurance company. He's a middle-class husband and father that craves excitement in his day-to-day life. He gets his wish when he begins investigating an embezzlement case and meets Mona Stevens (Scott), who works for a department store.
Seven Were Saved (1947)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Denning, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Ann Doran, Byron Barr, Richard Loo, John Eldredge
Roles Lt. Martin Pinkert
Rating58%
An army nurse undergoes a mission in taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, to the United States via plane. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causing the plane to spiral out of control, and it plummets into the sea...
They Made Me a Killer (1946)
, 1h4Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Robert Lowery, Barbara Britton, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Frank Albertson, Elisabeth Risdon
Roles Steve Reynolds
Rating59%
Tom Durling quits his job and drives across country after his brother is killed in an accident. He gives an attractive girl a ride and he's forced at gun point to be the driver in a bank robbery. During the crime, Steve Reynolds, another innocent man is involved and killed in the escape. After a high-speed chase, the car crashes and Durling is knocked unconscious while the bandits get away. The police arrest Durling but refuse to believe that he wasn't one of the robbers.
Tokyo Rose (1946)
, 1h9Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Actors Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Donald Douglas, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, William Challee
Roles Pete Sherman
Rating56%
Love Letters (1945)
, 1h41Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Anita Louise
Roles Derek Quinton
Rating70%
Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten), an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland (Robert Sully), a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can express feelings he has never expressed in person. He realizes that Victoria has fallen in love with the letters and is concerned that she will be disappointed by the real Roger. However, Roger abruptly leaves for paratrooper training in England.
Follow That Woman (1945)
, 1h9Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Gargan, Nancy Kelly, Regis Toomey, Edward Gargan, Byron Barr, Pierre Watkin
Roles John Evans
Rating58%
Nancy spends the evening with her boyfriend at the Downtown Club, a notorious hangout for members of the criminal underworld. Quite recently the club was the scene of a murder. Nancy witnesses what she believes is a holdup at the very next table, and instinctively she hits the gunman over the head with a champagne bottle, knocking him out completely. The gunman, Sam Boone, is really an undercover police officer posing as a gangster, who was trying to make an arrest when Nancy hit him. Even though Nancy and Sam really didn’t meet under the best of circumstances, they soon take a liking to each other, and eventually marry. Exactly two years later they return to the Downtown Club and the ”crime scene” in order to celebrate their first meeting.
The Affairs of Susan (1945)
, 1h50Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Don DeFore, Rita Johnson
Roles Chick
Rating65%
The plot concerns Susan Darell (Joan Fontaine), an actress from New York, who is about to be married, even though they have only known each other for a few weeks. Complications set in when her fiancé Richard Aiken (Walter Abel) gives a party to celebrate. He discovers that Susan has had three previous boyfriends when he sees their pictures in her living room. At the party he talks to the three former beaus of Susan, each of whom describes Susan as an entirely different person. They tell him how they met and fell in love with her. The first one to talk to Richard is Broadway producer Roger Berton (George Brent), who met Susan on a vacation island. He discovered her acting talent and cast her in role in his new production of Joan of Arc. The next beau is Mike Ward (Don DeFore), an industrialist Millionaire, whom he met when making a deal with the producer. He discovered that Susan was too much of a cosmopolitan girl for his taste. The third man was a novelist named Bill Anthony (Dennis O'Keefe), who met Susan in a park. While spending time with Bill, Susan began an intellectual era, but she decides not to go through with their plans to marry, leaving Bill at the altar. The fiancé Richard Aiken hesitates in going through with the wedding because he is not sure just who is the real Susan. All the other three men agree that they still love Susan, and she ultimately chooses the Broadway producer to be her husband.
Double Indemnity (1944)
, 1h43Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about capital punishment
Actors Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Gaines, Gig Young, Porter Hall
Roles Nino Zachetti
Rating82%
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant claims adjuster. The story, told primarily in flashback, ensues.
Practically Yours (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway, Robert Benchley, Tom Powers
Roles Navigator (uncredited)
Rating60%
When a young pilot, Daniel Bellamy, is presumed dead after crashbombing an enemy aircraft carrier, the footage of the crash and his presumably final reminiscence of walking in the park with 'Piggy' and kissing her on the nose is sent back home. A typographical error in transcribing his words becomes a tribute to heroism, while a girl who worked in his office, Peggy, is thought to be the object of his secret love. However, Dan returns home and in order to save embarrassment for both the girl and himself, he tries to keep up the pretense. Dan reveals that he was not speaking of a girl, but in fact he meant his dog. A series of comical mishaps ensue, leading to resolution of the misunderstanding. The resolution, however, is long coming.
The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
, 20minutesDirected by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Tobias, Richard Travis, Gig Young, Frank Wilcox, Knox Manning, Byron Barr
Rating56%
New York taxicab driver Malowski (George Tobias) and his cab Betsy enlist in the "First Armored Force" and get caught up in large-scale mechanized maneuvers. The tank featured in the short was the U.S Army's M3 Light Tank known as the Stuart.
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
, 1h5Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Harry Langdon, Betty Blythe, Ralph Byrd, Esther Muir, Gayne Whitman, Byron Barr
Rating52%
Absent-minded department store owner Henry Butler (Harry Langdon), forgetting his wedding anniversary ends up working late and missing the surprise anniversary party thrown by his wife, Effie, Betty Blythe. Trying to get away from work, he ends up being seen with a mannequin, which he is trying to get repaired. A friend of his wife who sees it, think it’s a blonde girl Henry is having an affair with. Others call the police, reporting a murdered woman.