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Edgar Barrier

{{short description|Film, radio and television actor}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Edgar Barrier

| image = Edgar Barrier in Macbeth.jpg

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| caption = Barrier as Banquo in Macbeth, 1948

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|03|04}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|06|20|1907|03|04}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1932–1964

}}

Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre{{cite web|url=http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logm1017.htm |title=Mercury Theater .. episodic log |publisher=Otrsite.com |access-date=2014-02-23}} and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show.{{cite web|url=http://www.saint.org/actor-edgar-barrier.htm |title=Edgar Barrier, Actor |publisher=Saint.org |access-date=2014-02-23}} He also appeared in two films with Welles, Journey into Fear (1943) and Macbeth (1948). Barrier also appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, which was long believed lost but was rediscovered in 2013.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/movies/early-film-by-orson-welles-is-rediscovered.html|title=Early Film by Orson Welles Is Rediscovered|first=Dave|last=Kehr|newspaper=The New York Times|date=Aug 7, 2013|access-date=Feb 24, 2020}}

He was a guest star on a few episodes of Disney's Zorro as Don Cornelio Esperon.{{Citation needed |date=November 2020}}

Barrier was born in New York City and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

Broadway roles

Edgar Barrier's Broadway stage credits are listed at the Internet Broadway Database.[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=31061 Edgar Barrier] at the Internet Broadway Database

Selected filmography

File:Too-Much-Johnson-Cotten-Barrier.jpg and Edgar Barrier shooting film sequences for the stage production Too Much Johnson (1938)]]

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.saint.org/actor-edgar-barrier.htm The Saint.org profile]
  • {{IMDb name|0057422}}
  • {{IBDB name|31061}}

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Category:1907 births

Category:1964 deaths

Category:Male actors from New York City

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male stage actors

Category:American male radio actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery