David Barry
David Barry has been an actor for almost 50 years having started as a child actor, performing in a film with Tyrone Power, and working on stage with Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He played Frankie Abbott in the 70s sitcoms Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and his first broadcast TV script was for Fenn Street Gang. In the ‘80s he wrote for Keep It in the Family for Thames TV, and has appeared in countless theatre and TV productions, including episodes of The Bill and A Mind to Kill, and played in dozens of pantomimes, usually playing Dame. His first novel, Each Man Kills, (Gomer Press) a police thriller, was published in 2002. His autobiography, Flashback (Authorsonline), was published in 2006, and includes his childhood memoirs of touring Europe in Titus Andronicus in 1957 with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh with the first British theatre company to perform behind the Iron Curtain. This has now been published as a Kindle e-book. He has also written a children’s book The Ice Cream Time Machine, which has been published by Andrews UK Ltd as an e-book as has his other book Willie the Actor. His book, Mr Micawber Down Under was recently published by Robert Hale books who are also publishing two of his thrillers. And his two novels Careless Talk and More Careless Talk have just been published by AUK.
He has two grown up children and lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
website: www.davidbarryauthor.co.uk