Barry CoeFilmography

The Pinballs

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Johnny Doran, Sparky Marcus, Priscilla Morrill, Walter Brooke

Synopsis: The protagonists of this ABC Afternoon Special are three parentless children of divergent backgrounds, all of whom share the same foster home. All their lives, Carlie (Kristy McNichol), Harvey (Johnny Doran), and Thomas J. (Sparky Marcus) have been "pinballs," bouncing around from one foster Read More

MacArthur

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Marj Dusay, Sandy Kenyon

Synopsis: Star Gregory Peck went into MacArthur disliking the title character that he was slated to play, but emerged from the experience with a deeper understanding and respect for this complex historical figure. The film is framed in flashback, with an octogenarian General
Douglas MacArthur (Peck) Read More

El Hombre Desnudo

Actors: Barry Coe, José Alonso, Irma Lozano

Synopsis: This Mexican vaquero (cowboy) film centers on a group of no-good, dirty, low-down varmints who want to drive a group of law-abiding folks away from where they live in order to pull off a land deal. They will stop at nothing: not rape, not murder, in order to accomplish this feat. However, they are Read More

Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls

Actors: John Considine, Moe Howard

Synopsis: John Considine does a cut-rate Vincent Price impersonation as the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next (which actually makes him more Read More

Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait

Synopsis: This low-budget Mexican production (originally produced for television) is a tepid but fairly accurate adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's tale, set during the Civil War. The story involves a young woman haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young bride, whose soul had been trapped for decades within Read More

The Seven Minutes

Actors: Robert Moloney, John Sarno, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Missile

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Enemy agent James Reed (David Sheiner) intends to steal the plans for a new missile guidance system. The IMF is assigned to hoodwink Reed into pilfering a set of bonus plans. Endangering the mission is escaped mental patient Hecker (John Beck), who believes that IMF agent Dana is his former Read More

Fantastic Voyage

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield

Synopsis: Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist (Jean del Val). Their mission is Read More

The Cat

Actors: Roger Perry, Peggy Ann Garner, Barry Coe, Dwayne Redlin, Shug Fisher

Synopsis: Toby Dwayne Redlin is an 8-year-old boy whose parents don't believe him when he says he has seen a wildcat. Punished for his overactive imagination, the boy takes off with the animal who is being cared for by the lovable oldster Bill Krim George "Shug" Fisher. Toby sees a rustler kill a ranger Read More

The 300 Spartans

Actors: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar

Synopsis: A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian invasion against overwhelming odds. King Leodinas (Richard Egan) rallies the locals to stop the attack of thousands of plundering Persian invaders led by evil King Xerxes (David Read More

Bonanza: The First Born

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Barry Coe

Synopsis: Season Four of Bonanza began on September 23, 1962 with what was intended to be a landmark episode. In "The First Born", Barry Coe plays Clay Stafford, a new ranchhand on the Ponderosa. Ordered to leave Virginia City after killing a man in self-defense (or so it seems), Clay reveals an astonishing Read More

The Wizard of Baghdad

Actors: Dick Shawn, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, John van Dreelen, Robert Simon

Synopsis: In this satirical costume fantasy, a clumsy no-talent genie ends up chastised by the genie king and given one last chance to prove himself. If he fails, he will end up a mere mortal. The hapless genie then heads for Baghdad astride a talking horse to try to become the Wizard of Baghdad. In that Read More

One Foot in Hell

Actors: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe

Synopsis: TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little Read More

But Not for Me

Actors: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Barry Coe

Synopsis: Clark Gable stars in this standard romantic comedy, one of his last films before his death in 1960. Based on the play Accent on Youth, this adaption of the love affair between an older man and his 22-year-old secretary ends differently. Russ Ward (Gable) has been producing for thirty years, and Read More

A Private's Affair

Actors: Sal Mineo, Christine Carère, Barry Coe, Barbara Eden, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: A trio of energetic young men try to put on a good show for their Army camp, in this lightweight comedy by Raoul Walsh. Luigi (Sal Mineo just risen to stardom), Jerry (Berry Coe), and Mike (Gary Crosby) are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition Read More

The Bravados

Actors: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant

Synopsis: Brooding Gregory Peck arrives in a small western town to witness the hanging of the men whom he holds responsible for the murder of his wife (they've been arrested for an unrelated crime). Through the help of a duplicitous executioner, the gang escapes--taking Kathleen Gallant as hostage. The Read More

Thundering Jets

Actors: Rex Reason, Dick Foran, Audrey Dalton, Robert Dix, Lee Farr

Synopsis: In this drama, a former Air Force hero becomes frustrated when he is pulled from active duty and is forced to train recruits at Edwards Air Force Base. He finds instructing the young fighter pilots terribly tedious. His frustration is compounded by his fear that one of his handsome bucks will Read More

Peyton Place

Actors: Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Diane Varsi

Synopsis: Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in this deluxe 20th Century-Fox production. Set during WWII, the film concentrates on several denizens of the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place. Read More

Love Me Tender

Actors: Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Robert Middleton, William Campbell

Synopsis: Elvis Presley made his motion picture debut in the Civil War drama Love Me Tender. Elvis, however, is not the star of the proceedings: that honor goes jointly to Richard Egan and Debra Paget. The story concerns three brothers--Egan, William Campbell and James Drury--who steal a Union payroll on Read More

On the Threshold of Space

Actors: Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak, Dean Jagger, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: The men behind America's first venture into space are honored in this drama that paid special emphasis on historical accuracy and obtained much input and assistance from the US Air Force. The story centers on an Air Force doctor who performs many detailed test to discover how the human body will Read More

House of Bamboo

Actors: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese Read More