Barry Corbin Filmography

Born:: October 16, 1940 in Lamesa, TX
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Leonard Barrie Corbin
Biography:: Actor Barry Corbin may be best remembered for portraying Maurice Minnifield, the blustery but good-hearted ex-astronaut and entrepreneurial owner of Cicely, Alaska, in the popular TV show Northern Exposure (1990-95). Prior to that, he worked steadily on stage, screen and television since the mid...Read More

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Beer for My Horses

Actors: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Ted Nugent, Willie Nelson, Claire Forlani

Synopsis: Country music star Toby Keith writes and stars in this road movie comedy as a deputy that takes to the road with a fellow cop (played by co-writer Rodney Carrington) in order to save their kidnapped girlfriends. The CMT Films production will be directed by Michael Salomon (A Glimpse of Hell), with Ted Nugent Read More

1/1/09
No Country for Old Men

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just Read More

11/9/07
In the Valley of Elah

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco

Synopsis: When a model soldier who recently returned to the U.S. from the front lines of Iraq goes AWOL, his veteran father enlists the aid of a dedicated police detective in seeking out his son's true fate of his son in director/screenwriter Paul Haggis's follow up to the Oscar-winning 2004 indie-hit Read More

9/14/07
Cowboy Country: The Complete Story of the Wild West [Documentary Series]

2006
Hidden Places

Actors: Sydney Penny, Jason Gedrick, Shirley Jones, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Robert Tate Miller adapts Lynn Austin's best-selling, Christy Award-winning 2001 novel for the screen in the family-friendly drama Hidden Places. Sydney Penny (All My Children) stars as Eliza Wyatt, a Christian widow and mother of two grappling with a loss of faith, and forced to pull in the Read More

2006
Beautiful Dreamer

Actors: Brooke Langton, Colin Egglesfield, Barry Corbin, James Denton

2005
River's End

Actors: Sam Huntington, Barry Corbin, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: A concerned grandfather gives his troubled grandson one last shot at redemption in director William Katt's sensitive tale of survival in the wilderness. Clay Watkins (Sam Huntington) is a seventeen-year old boy who still hasn't gotten over the recent death of his father. His anger over the death Read More

2005
Alien Express

Synopsis: Produced for cable's Sci-Fi Channel, Alien Express makes up in speed what it lacks in production finesse. Among the passengers on the maiden trip of a new, streamlined "bullet train" is a collection of millionaires, presidential candidates and beauty contest winners--not to mention a band of Read More

2005
One Tree Hill: Season 03

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, Barry Corbin, Paul Johansson

2005
One Tree Hill: Season 02

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Moira Kelly, Hilarie Burton, Barbara Alyn Woods

Synopsis:
The big news that broke during the finale of One Tree Hill's first season -- namely, the marriage between wealthy, arrogant high school basketball star Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and Haley James (Bethany Joy Lenz), the lifelong friend of Nathan's half brother, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) Read More

2004
Monte Walsh

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of Read More

2003
One Tree Hill: Season 01

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz, Paul Johansson, Sophia Bush, Barry Corbin, Craig Sheffer, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Growing up on the proverbial "opposite sides of the tracks" does not prevent wealthy high-school basketball star Nathan (James Lafferty) and less-than-wealthy but equally athletic Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) from becoming teammates, competitors, and occasional kindred spirits as One Tree Hill Read More

2003
Dunsmore

Actors: W. Earl Brown, Kadeem Hardison, Jeanetta Arnette, Rus Blackwell, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: The death of a feared and hated man leads to a conspiracy of silence in this drama. Walter Taylor (Kadeem Hardison) is an investigator from the state attorney general's office who is sent to a small Southern town to investigate an unusual murder. Ronny Roy Pritchett (W. Earl Brown) was a town Read More

2003
Drive-In Movie Memories

Actors: Leonard Maltin, Beverly Garland, Barry Corbin, Robert Fuller, Burton Gilliam

2002
Hope Ranch

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Lorenzo Lamas, Gail O'Grady, Barry Corbin, Stephen Wozniak

Synopsis: Not dissimilar to such earlier Hollywood features as Boys' Ranch and Johnny Holiday, this made-for-cable drama stars Bruce Boxleitner as ex-cop and former marine J.T. Hope. The owner of a 2,000-acre ranch in Utah, Hope makes it his mission in life to rehabilitate youngsters who, as a result of Read More

2002
Clover Bend

Actors: Barry Corbin, Erin Gray, Robert Urich, David Keith, Dorien Wilson

2001
The Gristle

Actors: Michael Dorn, Barry Corbin, Orson Bean, Richard Riehle, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: David Portlock's darkly comic film about race, The Gristle, concerns a pair of struggling medical technicians who get a moonlighting gig to deliver kidneys to a Senator. Complications ensue when a drug deal set to go down in the same place and at the same time leads to the wrong deliveries being Read More

2001
Crossfire Trail

Actors: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, Brad Johnson, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Tom Selleck plays the drifter Rafe Covington in this respectful adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Crossfire Trail, presented by Turner Network Television. A romantic Western, Crossfire Trail follows Rafe as he struggles to honor his vow to a dying friend to protect his wife and daughter and Read More

2001
The Journeyman

Synopsis: Two brothers follow separate paths to tragic results in this western from director James Crowley. Separated at a young age following a raid on Samuel Hancock's (Willie Nelson) ranch by bandits, it's thirteen long years before they once again cross paths. A wandering stranger who has developed a Read More

2001
Held Up

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, Eduardo Yañez, John Cullum, Jake Busey

Synopsis: In this fish-out-of-water comedy, Jamie Foxx plays a man named Michael Dawson, though he's confused for both Puff Daddy and Mike Tyson by the citizenry of the podunk southwest town that serves as the setting for Held Up. Road-tripping Michael and Rae (Nia Long) stop in for gas in Michael's new Read More

5/12/00
No One Can Hear You

Actors: Kelly McGillis

Synopsis: A woman tracking a dangerous criminal discovers the criminal may be tracking her as well in this thriller. Trish Burchall (Kelly McGillis) is an investigative reporter whose latest assignment has her tracking a serial killer who has been murdering young women and then moving on to kill their Read More

2000
A Face to Kill For

Synopsis: A woman is wrongly imprisoned after being set up by her husband. While in prison, she undergoes plastic surgery and seeks revenge on those responsible for her criminal conviction. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Fumbleheads

Actors: Ed Asner

Synopsis: Hell hath no fury like a football fan scorned in this sport-oriented comedy. The city of Quimby Falls is already going downhill when the owner of the local professional football team, the Buzzards, decides to bail out of the sinking ship and move the franchise elsewhere. But the team's most loyal Read More

1999
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Synopsis: A real-life murder story that commanded headlines for several months in 1990 served as the basis for the tense but unsatisfying cable-TV movie Judgment Day: Ellie Nesler Story. Christine Lahti stars as Ellie Nesler, who cannot help but notice that her seven-year-old son Brandon (Andrew Ducote) has Read More

1999
The Drew Carey Show: Nicki's Wedding

Synopsis: Drew (Drew Carey) astonishes his friends when he accepts a wedding invitation from his ex-girl friend Nicki (Kate Fifer), who is slated to be married on a boat in the middle of Lake Erie. To prove that he has gotten over Nicki (which he hasn't), Drew impulsively invites a video-store clerk named Read More

1998
The Drew Carey Show: Nicki's Parents

Synopsis: Drew (Drew Carey) plans to make his proposal to Nicki official when he meets her parents (Barry Corbin, Anne Francis); unfortunately, Nicki is unable to show up. A bad situation proceeds to get worse when the parents blame Drew for Nicki's enormous weight gain--then begin sniping at each other for Read More

1998
The Closer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Ed Asner, Penelope Ann Miller, David Krumholtz, Hedy Burress

Synopsis: This TV sitcom series centers around Denver advertising man Jack McLaren (Tom Selleck), such a powerhouse that he's nicknamed "The Legend." In the opening episode, his agency's biggest client is the U.S. Army, but after Jack beats the President of the United States on the golf course, he's out of Read More

1998
The Hired Heart

Synopsis: Rural Wyoming is the setting for this made-for-cable romantic drama with ribald comic overtones. It has been two years since the husband of young Dr. Garnet Hadley (Penelope Ann Miller) was killed by a wild bull, but Garnet is still in love with her deceased soulmate and has no intention of Read More

1997
The Big Easy: Season 01

Actors: Tony Crane, Susan Walters, Barry Corbin

1996
My Son Is Innocent

Synopsis: The life of teenager Eric Sutter (Nick Stahl) is forever changed for the worse when he is arrested for attacking a neighbor woman with a knife--the case being "sealed" when the victim positively I.D.s the hapless Eric, who has harbored a crush on the woman for months. Anxious for a conviction, the Read More

1996
Solo

Actors: Jaime Gomez, Mario Van Peebles, Barry Corbin, Bill Sadler, Adrien Brody, Seidy Lopez, Abraham Verduzco

Synopsis: The American military-industrial complex has a blueprint for the perfect mechanical soldier. Unfortunately, the prototype, Solo (Mario Van Peebles), has responded appropriately to his programming (which requires him to reason things out on his own), with results that the designers didn't Read More

1996
Curdled

Actors: William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay, Mel Gorham, Barry Corbin, Lois Chiles

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, a woman fascinated with crime has an unexpected brush with a famous murderer's handiwork. Gabriela (Angela Jones) is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death since she saw a falling corpse pass by her window as a child. Today she works Read More

1996
Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

1996
Deadly Family Secrets

Synopsis: Millstone is the all-too-appropriate name of the Texas hometown of sophisticated career woman Martha (Loni Anderson). No sooner has Martha returned home after a 15-year absence than she witnesses a murder. Relating this information to her sisters, Martha is confused by their reaction. Only when it Read More

1995
Murphy Brown: Bad Company

Synopsis: In order to coerce Murphy (Candice Bergen) into working on a searing expose of a powerful software CEO, weaselly Andrew Lansing (Paul Reubens) leaks some "hot" information about the subject of the expose to Frank (Joe Regalbuto). Thus, though Murphy had originally resisted participating in the Read More

1995
Northern Exposure: Season 06

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Northern Exposure opens with the typically self-reflective "Dinner at Seven-Thirsty," in which Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), New York-born doctor of the Alaskan village of Cicely, envisions what life might have been like had he never left home. In a similar Read More

1994
Formula for Death

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, William Devane

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller was based on Robin Cook's bestseller Outbreak, but had to be retitled to avoid conflict with a similarly plotted theatrical feature of the same name (which in fact had been conceived long after Cook's novel hit the stands in 1987). Somewhere, somehow, someone has released Read More

1994
Northern Exposure: Season 05

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The opening episode of Northern Exposure's fifth season is even more surrealistic than usual, which is saying quite a lot considering the quirky goings on in the Alaskan village of Cicely. Said opener is "Three Doctors," in which the town's New York-bred doctor, Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) Read More

1993
Northern Exposure: Thanksgiving

1992
Northern Exposure: Northwest Passage

Synopsis: Northern Exposure was an unusually intelligent and witty hour-long comedy-drama set in a fictional Alaskan town that is filled with a quirky ensemble of residents. In this memorable episode, independent-minded but neurotic pilot Maggie O'Connell, who seems to be romantically cursed to have all of Read More

1992
Northern Exposure: Season 04

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: Season four of Northern Exposure dawns on the tiny Alaskan village of Cicely and the eccentric residents living therein -- not to mention New York-born doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), still reluctantly working off his student loans as Cicely's general practitioner. The season opener Read More

1992
The Keys

Synopsis: When his son becomes involved in a drug kingpin's land scheme, a Florida businessman's tentative feelers towards re-establishing a relationship with his estranged family takes a decidedly different turn. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Career Opportunities

Actors: Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, John M. Jackson, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: John Hughes strip-mines familiar terrain -- in this case his own past successes -- in this comedy that Hughes produced and scripted, directed by Bryan Gordon. Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a 21-year-old con-man who goes from job to job but likes to put on a facade of success. As Career Read More

3/29/91
Northern Exposure: Cicely

Synopsis: The surreal lives of the townspeople of remote Cicely, Alaska served as the focus of the 1990-1995 television series Northern Exposure. Told in flashback, this episode recounts the town's founding by a pair of liberal women who are looking to establish a utopian society and who bring a bit of Read More

1991
The Chase

Synopsis: This exciting chase-film originally aired on television and tells the true tale of the high-speed pursuit of a fleeing bank robber by a determined Denver policeman, and of the courageous local television news crew who captured it all on film and managed to play a big part in bringing the crook to Read More

1991
Conagher

Actors: Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Barry Corbin, Billy Green Bush, Ken Curtis

Synopsis: This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the budding relationship between brave but lonely widow (Katharine Ross) who runs a remote stagecoach way station and the handsome cowpoke (Sam Elliot) who comes to help her out. Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Season 03

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: After what amounted to a brace of "trial runs," the quirky seriocomic series Northern Exposure entered its third year on CBS with a full season's worth of episodes -- more than enough to thoroughly explore the mystical eccentricities of the citizens of Cicely, AK, and the constant bafflement of Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Season 02

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The overwhelmingly positive response (including a handful of Emmy nominations) to the first limited season of Northern Exposure in the summer of 1990 prompted CBS to commission seven more episodes, which were seen in the spring of 1991. In the eight months between the first batch of episodes and Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Spring Break

Synopsis: Spring fever hits Cicely big time as the townsfolk await the annual breakup of the winter freeze. The seasonal madness includes the traditional "running of the bulls" -- only they aren't really bulls. Meanhile, the ever-bickering Joel (Rob Morrow) and Maggie (Janine Turner) are suddenly and Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Seoul Mates

1991
The Hot Spot

Actors: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, Bill Sadler

Synopsis: This hard-boiled throwback to the film noir dramas of the 1940s and '50s is directed by filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. Don Johnson stars as Harry Madox, a drifter who settles in a small Texas town and begins secretly setting small Read More

10/12/90
Ghost Dad

Actors: Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas, Ian Bannen, Christine Ebersole, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Bill Cosby mugs so uncontrollably that it looks as if he may be the victim of a muscular disorder in the inane and unfunny Ghost Dad. Cosby plays Elliot, a workaholic widower with three children -- Danny (Salim Grant), Amanda (Brooke Fontainbe), and the teenage Diane (Kimberly Russell). Elliot is Read More

6/29/90
Short Time

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Gregg Champion, the son of dance stars Marge and Gower Champion, made his feature film directorial debut with this sitcom-influenced cop comedy. Dabney Coleman stars as Burt Simpson, a police detective one week short of retirement, who is told he has a rare blood disease called Wechsler's Curtain Read More

5/4/90
Last Flight Out

Synopsis: This tension-filled made-for-television drama is set a few hours before the Viet Cong took over Saigon in 1975 and chronicles the struggle of Americans and Vietnamese to be on board the last commercial flight out of the city. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Northern Exposure: Aurora Borealis - A Fairytale for Big People

Synopsis: Strange things always happen in Cicely during the Aurora Borealis, and those "things" are even stranger in this final episode of Northern Exposure's first season. Lost in the woods, Joel (Rob Morrow) is rescued by a legendary sasquatch-like creature named Adam -- who turns out to be a human being Read More

1990
Northern Exposure: Pilot

Synopsis: Upon graduation from medical school, 27-year-old doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) must work off 125,000 dollars worth of student loans by accepting a practice in Anchorage, AK. Having seldom ventured any farther than the boundaries of his native Manhattan, Joel balks at this assignment, only to Read More

1990
Northern Exposure: Season 01

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: Northern Exposure made its first appearance as an eight-week Thursday-night "tryout" on CBS in the late summer of 1990. With swift, sure strokes, the series' producers quickly established that 27-year-old Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), freshly graduated from Columbia University Medical School Read More

1990
Who's Harry Crumb?

Actors: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: John Candy's popularity from his appearances on the Canadian television series Second City TV did not translate into film success until he made the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck. Who's Harry Crumb? was released just before the more well-known film, and some SCTV regulars make cameo appearances. In Read More

2/3/89
Lonesome Dove

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Woodrow Call Read More

1989
Red King, White Knight

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Tom Skerritt plays an end-of-tether CIA agent in Red King, White Knight. His superiors persuade Skerritt to take one last assignment: to prevent the assassination of the Russian president. Max Von Sydow plays Skerritt's opposite number at the KGB, who despite orders to kill the American agent Read More

1989
Star Quest: Beyond the Rising Moon

Actors: Tracy Davis, Hans Bachmann, Michael Mack, Ron Ikejiri, Rick Foucheaux

Synopsis: In this special-effects laden sci-fi adventure, a specially designed woman with super powers is sent out to insure that the corporation that designed her claims ownership of a priceless antique spaceship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
I Know My First Name Is Steven

Actors: Luke Edwards, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the two-part TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven tells the tragic story of Steven Stayner. At age seven, Steven was kidnapped by two men who held him captive in a tiny shed for seven years. One of the men, a habitual child abuser named Kenneth Parnell, sexually assaulted Read More

1989
Spooner

Synopsis: Spooner stars Robert Urich as a forger, recently escaped from prison. Urich cooks up a phony resume and assumes the identity of a high-school teacher. He becomes the wrestling coach for a group of misfit kids with the lowest of low self esteem. In urging the kids not to give up, Urich's eyes are Read More

1989
It Takes Two

Actors: George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Kimberly Foster, Barry Corbin, Anthony Geary

Synopsis: Travis Rogers (George Newborn) is a young man slated to marry his childhood sweetheart Stephi (Leslie Hope) in this romantic comedy. Just days before the wedding, Travis leaves his Texas ranch and buys a hot red sports car from Jonni Tigersmith (Kimberly Foster), the sex kitten sales person. Jonni Read More

7/13/88