Barry Brown (April 19, 1951 – June 25, 1978) was an American author, playwright and actor who performed on stage and in television dramas and feature films, notably as Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974), adapted from the classic Henry James novella (1878). Bogdanovich praised Brown's contribution to the film, describing him as "the only American actor you can believe ever read a book."
April 19, 1951, San Jose, California, United States
Died
June 25, 1978, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
San Jose, California, USA
Height
5' 11" (1.8 m)
Profession
Actor
Spouse
Jennie Vlahos (m. 1972–1972)
Parents
Vivian Brown, Donald Bernard Brown
Siblings
Marilyn Brown, James Brown
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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Acting allows you to overcome anything.
2
The most important thing in the world is being in the spotlight. I don't know why.
3
An overdeveloped imagination is necessary to being a good actor. But left to itself alone in a room, it can take over. It's like a demon that somehow leaps out of you and starts to do things to you.
4
The only time I'm not unhappy is when I'm acting.
5
I usually do get typecast for my sensitivity and my soft looks, my gentle looks -- I very rarely get cast as a villain.
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Fact
1
Barry Brown's first film appearance was a bit, walk-on role in 1958's In Love and War; his last film was 1978's Piranha - both of which starred Bradford Dillman.
2
In August of 2003 his brother, James Brown, published "The Los Angeles Diaries," a memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family troubled by crime, alcoholism, drug abuse and the ultimate suicides of his two siblings, Barry Brown and Marilyn Brown, the latter having killed herself by jumping from a bridge into a concrete Los Angeles river bed.
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