Barry Brown

Barry Brown was an American actor, playwright and author. Born in San Jose, California, he began acting at five. At ten he acted alongside Van Johnson in a stage version of The Music Man. His first important screen role came at 19 in Halls of Anger (1970). He followed it with The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) and broke through as Drew Dixon, a Civil War draft dodger, in Robert Benton's Bad Company (1972), with Jeff Bridges. He played Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974), an adaptation of Henry James, and the director said he was the only American actor who seemed to have read a book. Brown then worked mainly in television, including The Disappearance of Aimee (1976). His final features included Joe Dante's Piranha (1978) and The Ultimate Thrill (1974). He also wrote on film history and contributed to Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors and magazines such as Films in Review.