Gene Barry grew up in Brooklyn and attended New Utrecht High School.
14 Facts About Gene Barry
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Gene Barry exhibited early artistic skills with singing and playing violin as a child and later spent two years at the Chatham Square School of Music in Greenwich Village on a scholarship awarded for his vocal ability.
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Gene Barry later portrayed Falke in Rosalinda, Nova Kovich in The Merry Widow, Lieutenant Bunin in Catherine Was Great, Dorante and Comte De Chateau-Gaillard in The Would-Be Gentleman, The Doctor in Happy as Larry, and played a variety of roles in the musical revue Bless You All.
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In 1950 Gene Barry began appearing on television with the NBC Television Opera Theatre.
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In 1951 Gene Barry was hired for his first movie, in the role of Dr Frank Addison in The Atomic City.
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Gene Barry again played in the title role, this time as a widower working with his son Peter.
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One of the magazines that Gene Barry's character published was called People, several years before the actual People began publication.
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In 1972, Gene Barry starred in the ITV television series The Adventurer, along with Gene Barry Morse and Catherine Schell.
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Gene Barry played Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who posed as a glamorous American movie star.
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Gene Barry was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Georges in Cage.
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In 1975 Gene Barry bought a home in Palm Springs, California.
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On October 22,1944, at age 25, Gene Barry married Betty Claire Kalb, whom he met on the set of Catherine Was Great.
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Gene Barry died on December 9,2009, at Sunrise Senior Living in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 90.
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Gene Barry was buried at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California, with his wife Betty, who died in 2003.