Malcolm Barbour

{{Short description|American television producer}}

{{distinguish|Malcolm Barber}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Malcolm Barbour

| nationality = American

| occupation = Television producer

| years active = 1983-1994

}}

Malcolm Barbour is an American former television producer and the co-creator and former executive producer of the television program Cops (alongside John Langley).{{cite news

| title = Fox network's 'COPS' off to Soviet Union

| first = Gail

| last = Shister

| newspaper = The Vindicator

| publisher =

| location = Youngstown, Ohio, United States

| date = 1989-04-20

| page = 49

}}{{cite news

| title = 'Cops' file bulges with rules broken, viewers captured

| first = Steven Cole

| last = Smith

| newspaper = Fort Worth Star-Telegram

| publisher =

| location = Fort Worth, Texas, USA

| issn = 0889-0013

| date = 1993-02-18

| page = 3

}} Prior to Cops, Barbour worked with Langley on Who Murdered JFK,{{Cite news|date=1988-07-11|title=Closed Circuit|work=Broadcasting|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/88-OCR/BC-1988-07-11-OCR-Page-0010.pdf|access-date=2021-10-16}} Cocaine Blues and American Vice: The Doping of a Nation. He stopped being a producer in 1994.{{cite news

|title=Like the 10 O'Clock News, 'Cops' Endures

|first=Dave

|last=Itzkoff

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/arts/television/09itzk.html

|newspaper=The New York Times

|issn=0362-4331

|date=2007-09-09

|accessdate=2010-12-22

|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240525033058/https://www.webcitation.org/5vAS2T8rm?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/arts/television/09itzk.html%3F_r=1

|archivedate=2024-05-25

|url-status=dead

}}

In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013165655/http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf |date=2012-10-13 }}