Biography

David Barry has been an actor for more than 40 years having started as a child actor, touring Europe with 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.

His first novel, Each Man Kills, a police thriller, was published by Gomer Press (2002), and his autobiography, Flashback, by Authorsonline (2006). In 2007/08 he worked as Writer in Residence in Aberdeen, during which time his third book, Willie the Actor, was published by Libros International, who have also published his children’s book, The Ice Cream Time Machine (2009).

He has also written many corporate films and drama training scripts for public sector organisations such as The Department of Trade & Industry, and a full-length play about diversity issues, which was performed at London’s Mermaid Theatre and Lillian Bayliss Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, and he wrote and directed two short films for Kent Youth & Community.

Website: www.davidbarryauthor.co.uk

Books available via Amazon

Willie The Actor by David Barry
Libros International (ISBN 978-1905988198)
£7.99

Why does Willie the Actor rob banks? Because that's where the money is!

New York City in the prohibition era, and Bill Sutton’s wife thinks he earns an honest crust as a rent collector. Instead, he leads an extraordinary double-life as ‘Willie the Actor’, a notorious bank robber.

Based on a true story, the novel’s protagonist is a gentle gunman who never once fires a shot. But it was believed he was jinxed and almost everyone he works with comes to a violent end.

Flashback by David Barry
Authors Online Ltd (ISBN 978-0755202263)
£9.40

David Barry’s autobiography spans almost five decades of theatre, film and television experience. As a 14 year old he toured Europe with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, who took a shine to him and he saw both sides of her complex character first hand.

In the 1970s he starred in Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and those days are recounted with great humour. Hilarious events unfold as he describes working with dodgy producers and argumentative actors. His is a story that covers everything from the pitfalls of working in live television to performing with hard drinking actors.