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MICHAEL BARRY
The
Counting House, Dodington, Bridgwater, Somerset TA5 1LE
Tel
01278 733100
Mobile
07906 364189; E-mail mailto:michaelis@perceptivecreation.co.uk
Born:
21 May 1942
NI
number: YH 079529D
Driver's
licence: BARRY/405212/MJ9UJ
issue no: A2750272
Equity
number: 45722 (under Honourable Withdrawal)
Physical Skills:
Swimming,
skiing, (hang-gliding, microlight pilot, paragliding - refresher
needed).
Drive
cars, motor-bikes, up to 7.5 ton trucks.
Photography;
Horse-riding (rusty).
Measurements:
Height
6'0", chest 40", waist 35", inside leg 31",
head
7/7.25, weight ca 13 stone.
Collar
15 1/2; shoe 8 1/2; hair grey; eyes brown.
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Acting CV.
Professional acting experience includes:
TV: Mortier's Aide - "War
and Peace" (BBC) Articled
Clerk - "Glan Hafran"
"The
Jolly Potters" (Stage show filmed BBC)
Victim - “Natural Mystery” (paranormal series HTV)
Surgeon
- "Crime Limited" (BBC)
Founding Chairman Sun Life (corporate)
Clerk
of Court - "Ty fyn, Ty fas" (Pontcanna/ S4C) Businessman in
"Going Down" (short drama)
Sir
John Fortescue – “Monarchy” (ITV)
and Supporting Artist roles: “Torchwood” (evangelising
preacher); “Skins” (sexed-up janitor); "Coming Home"
(Vicar); "Dangerfield" (Police Superintendent, prison officer,
SCO); "The Choir" (School
Governor); "Wycliffe"; "House of Elliott" (MP);
"Backup"; "The Revenue Men", "Jam Omelette"
(Sextet series), "Casualty" (anaesthetist, senior paediatrician,
patient, police inspector, judge, paramedic etc), "Thin End of the
Wedge", "Mourning Brooch", "Eagle of the Ninth",
"Mayor's Charity", "The Standard"; "Berkeley
Square"; "Animal Ark"; "Vanity Fair", "East
Enders", "Pobol y Cwm"; "Harbour Lights"; "Wives
and Daughters"; "Dr Xargol"; "Dalziel & Pascoe";
"The Prince & The Pauper"; "A Respectable Trade";
"Tom Jones"; "The Last Salute"; "Mortimer's Law";
"Love of Rowens" (Nye Bevan Story); "Dinosaur Hunters",
"Bertie & Elizabeth", "Down to Earth";
“Afterlife”, “Dr Who”; “Teachers” (Regular
Teacher 2004). Films: "The James Gang"; "Nightingale",
"The Visitors", "Blackball", “Lucky Break”,
“The Truth About Love”, “Echo of Guilt”, “Four
Seasons”.
Photographic Model: Take-a-Break
(several)
Corporate Roleplay: Extensive experience (Private Patients Plan, Liverpool Victoria, Frizzell
Group, Teachers Insurance, Abbey Life, Nat West/Norwich Union, Bristol
University Law Dept, MOD, National Audit Commission, Enpower). Videos for
Psychodynamix, World Dating Partners.
Stage:
Slender - "The
Merry Wives of Windsor"
Ferneze's Knight -
"Jew of Malta"
Lexy Mill -
"Candida"
Several parts in
"The Jolly Potters"
2 lead parts on Brian Way tour
(schools)
Mr Lockwood - "Wuthering Heights"
Dr Gribble - "Love
from a Stranger"
Old Tyme Music Hall
Captain Baltinsky -
"Offshore Island"
2 roles - "The
Enchanted Square"
2 roles - "The Time
Fisher" children's plays
Male lead - "Mixed
Doubles" (2 hander)
Bardolph/Sir Michael -
"Henry IV"
Hunter - "Ten
Minute Alibi"
Convict - "See how
they run"
Peters - "Temple Folly
"
Dudley - "Let Sleeping
Wives Lie"
Ogden - "Verdict"
Renfield -
"Dracula"
Frith -
"Rebecca"
Chotomate - "Birds
on the Wing"
Theatres acted in: Edinburgh Gateway; Victoria Stoke-on-Trent; Her Majesty's Barrow-in-Furness; Traverse Edinburgh; Dundee Rep;
Devonshire Park Eastbourne; Brewhouse Taunton.
Career (non-acting):
10 (+ 13 part-time)
years professional theatre - a number of acting parts (but mainly technical,
directing, management).
4 years broadcast TV - writer/
researcher
10 (+ 10 freelance)
years corporate production - producer/ director/ writer.
Now
development/ production of drama projects for TV and feature film market
Ran/founded The Wessex Actors Company (professional
regional touring theatre co. – 1993-2006).
Also vineyard owner/ wine-making, property rental,
on-line publishing
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