Patricia Barry

Patricia Barry
Patricia Barry in an episode of The Twilight Zone, in 1960.
Born	Patricia Allen White (1921-11-16)November 16, 1921 Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
Died	October 11, 2016(2016-10-11) (aged 94) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1945–2005
Spouse(s)	Philip Barry, Jr. (1950–1998; his death); 2 children

Patricia Barry (née White; November 16, 1921 – October 11, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

The daughter of a physician, Barry was born Patricia Allen White in Davenport, Iowa. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she received her academic and practical training in acting in the school's drama department, which was administered by the distinguished Broadway actress and teacher Maude Adams. After Barry's graduation from college, she gained some professional experience on stage in 1944 before winning a Rita Hayworth look-alike contest. The resulting publicity from that contest led to Barry being signed to a Hollywood movie contract with Warner Brothers.

Barry's theatrical debut came in summer theater at Peterborough, New Hampshire. Later appearing on Broadway, her credits there include The Pink Elephant (1953) and Goodbye Again (1956). She also starred in productions in Los Angeles, California, and Flagstaff, Arizona.

Barry's performances in Hollywood productions began in 1946 with her involvement in five Warner Brothers films released that year. However, she received a screen credit–as Patricia White–in only one of those five, in The Beast with Five Fingers. She played "Clara" in that horror film, which starred Robert Alda, Andrea King, and Peter Lorre. From 1947 to 1950, Barry gained additional acting experience in no fewer than sixteen other movies with Paramount Pictures, Columbia, RKO, and Gene Autry Productions. As before, when credited for her performances in those films, she continued to be recognized by her maiden name, although after her marriage to producer Philip Barry, Jr., in 1950 she began to use her married name professionally. She also began at that time to focus her acting career almost exclusively on the film industry's quickly rising competitor in entertainment, television. She did, though, return to film work occasionally. She had roles in four movies that were released in 1964: Safe at Home, Send Me No Flowers, Kitten With a Whip, and Dear Heart. Following those performances, she appeared in a few other theatrical releases in the coming decades, but the vast majority of her work continued to be on television. Some of her other films during that latter stage of her career include (1971), The End of August, (1982), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), For Keeps (1989), City Rhythms (1989), and Sea of Love (1989). In 2014, just two years before her death and 25 years after her role in Sea of Love, Barry would appear in her final film, Delusional.