Biography

April 19, 1951 · San Jose, California, USA

June 27, 1978 · Silver Lake, California, USA (suicide)

Donald Barry Brown

5′ 11″ (1.80 m)

In August of 2003 his brother, James Brown, published "The Los Angeles Diaries," a memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family troubled by crime, alcoholism, drug abuse and the ultimate suicides of his two siblings, Barry Brown and Marilyn Brown, the latter having killed herself by jumping from a bridge into a concrete Los Angeles river bed.

Shot himself to death.

Co-authored "Unsung Heroes of the Horrors" with Jim Coughlin, which went unpublished following Barry's death in 1978.

Barry Brown's first film appearance was a bit, walk-on role in 1958's In Love and War; his last film was 1978's Piranha - both of which starred Bradford Dillman.

Brother of actress Marilyn Brown.

I usually do get typecast for my sensitivity and my soft looks, my gentle looks -- I very rarely get cast as a villain.

The only time I'm not unhappy is when I'm acting.

An overdeveloped imagination is necessary to being a good actor. But left to itself alone in a room, it can take over. It's like a demon that somehow leaps out of you and starts to do things to you.

The most important thing in the world is being in the spotlight. I don't know why.

Acting allows you to overcome anything.