Wesley Barry

Wesley Barry, an American actor who later directed and produced, began in silent pictures as a child. Born in Los Angeles in 1907, he was put to work at Kalem Studios. He became a star in his own right, with Dinty in 1920 a particular success, and he played opposite Mary Pickford in Daddy-Long-Legs and later opposite Gloria Swanson in Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female (1919). Other starring vehicles included School Days, Rags to Riches, and Heroes of the Street. After minor sound film roles through the 1930s, ending with Ladies' Day in 1943, he moved into directing and producing for TV and B-movies, among them The Steel Fist and Racing Blood. He also worked often as an assistant director, including on Roger Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, released in 1967. His best-known directorial effort, The Creation of the Humanoids, followed in 1962, and his final credit was The Jolly Genie, made in 1963. He died in 1994.