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Paul Bryar
Highest Rated: 89% Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Lowest Rated: 71% Arise, My Love (1940)
Birthday: Feb 21, 1910
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, USA
Character actor Paul Bryar, like countless other people struggling to maintain a movie career in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, was frequently employed by the so-called Poverty Row studios like Republic, Monogram, and PRC who each cranked out cheap but profitable fare at a dizzying rate. When he wasn't making action-packed serials such as "Spy Smasher" or co-starring in espionage thrillers like William "One-Shot" Beaudine's "Foreign Agent," he was working sans credit on the Warner Brothers gangster movie "The Roaring Twenties" (which starred James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart) or in Paramount's "Midnight" (starring glamorous Claudette Colbert and the dashing Don Ameche). He co-starred in three PRC Michael Shayne mystery pictures--"Larceny in Her Heart," "Blonde for a Day," and "Three on a Ticket." Actors like John Wayne, who first made their name working in the Poverty Row productions, eventually progressed to bigger things. But the ones who didn't break out had to wait for television to offer up better roles. In 1965, Bryar had a regular gig as Sherriff Harve Anders in the drama series "The Long, Hot Summer," his most visible role in some time. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after its first season and he was back doing bit parts for years leading up to his death at age 75. Many viewers will remember him best for his small role as a card player at the beginning of the revisionist Western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
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Paul Bryar
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway | Counterman (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conspiracy of Terror | Pawnbroker (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Family Kovack | Charlie (Character) | - | 1974 |
89% |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Card Player No. 1 (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saintly Sinners | Duke (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Squad Car | Police Lt. Beck (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Gunman's Walk | Bartender (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bob Mathias Story | Bill Andrews (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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She's Back on Broadway | Ned Colby (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Easy to Love | Mr. Barnes (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Dangerous When Wet | Pierre (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | White Lightning | Stew Barton (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Mrs. Hoyle | Willie (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Navy Bound | C.P.O. Robert Garrells (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Madame Bovary | Bailiff (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mississippi Rhythm | Sad Sam Beale (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows Over Chinatown | Mike Rogan (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gas House Kids | Shadow Sarecki (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady Chaser | Garry (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larceny in Her Heart | Tim Rourke (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jungle Siren | Sgt. Mike Jenkins (Character) | - | 1942 |
82% |
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Lady From Chungking | Pat O'Roulke (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Swiss waiter (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Criminal Investigator | Stuart (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Queen of Broadway | Rosy (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desperate Cargo | Henchman Desser (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marked Men | Joe Mellon (Character) | - | 1940 |
71% |
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Arise, My Love | Desk Clerk (Character) | - | 1940 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Jake Barky (Guest Star) | 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973-1974 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bob Newhart Show | Mr. Firman (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Al (Bartender) (Guest Star) | 1974-1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Desk Guard Sheer (Guest Star) | 1972 1974-1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Car Wash Owner (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Sheriff Ryan (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Harry Wendel (Guest Star) | 1966-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Sergeant McKay (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Mother the Car | Sheriff (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Bewitched | Basil Koenig (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Burdett (Guest Star) | 1957 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Ed Sudano (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Andy Griffith Show | Mr. Osgood (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Range Master (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Scalper (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Man | Joe (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leave It to Beaver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Bartender (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Reb Thomas (Guest Star) | 1955 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Papa Leprie (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lou Henry (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Behind the Badge | Chief of Police (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Topper | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Letter to Loretta | Unknown (Character) | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Jeb Parkes (Guest Star) | 1953 |