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Film, radio and television actor
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Male
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Birth:
4 March 1907(New York City)
Death:
20 June 1964(Hollywood)
The details
Biography
Introduction
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 and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show. He also appeared in two films with Welles, Macbeth and Journey into Fear. Barrier also appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, which was long believed lost but was rediscovered in 2013.
He was a guest star on a few episodes of Disney's Zorro as Don Cornelio Esperon.
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.
- Mary of Scotland (1933) as Lord Douglas
- Idiot's Delight (1936) as Auguste
- The Magnificent Yankee (1946) as Mr. Justice Brandeis
- Edgar Barrier at the Internet Broadway Database
Selected filmography
- Too Much Johnson (1938)
- Comrade X (1940)
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- Eagle Squadron (1942)
- Danger in the Pacific (1942)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) as Voice of Terror (uncredited)
- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- Journey into Fear (1943)
- We've Never Been Licked (1943)
- The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943 film serial)
- Flesh and Fantasy (1943) (first segment only)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
- A Game of Death (1945)
- Cornered (1945)
- Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
- Macbeth (1948), as Banquo, the only Shakespearean role he played on film
- To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
- The Secret of St. Ives (1949)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), as Cardinal Richelieu, a role created for the film
- The Whip Hand (1951)
- Count the Hours (1953)
- The War of the Worlds (1953)
- The Stand at Apache River (1953)
- The Giant Claw (1957)
- Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)