Barry Tubb

Barry Tubb is an American actor and director who worked in television and film from 1983 to 2014. Born in Snyder, Texas, he trained for the stage in San Francisco before moving to Hollywood in the mid-1980s. His early television work included a regular role on the baseball series Bay City Blues and a recurring part as a young police officer on Hill Street Blues. He also appeared in the television films Consenting Adult and Billionaire Boys Club. His most popular television role was Jasper Fant in the Western Lonesome Dove and its follow-up, Return to Lonesome Dove (1993). On film he took supporting roles in Mask and The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) and played Wolfman in Top Gun (1986). In 1988 he appeared on Broadway in Sweet Sue opposite Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave. He later appeared in Warm Summer Rain and directed the family film Grand Champion (2002).