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Acting

Barry Primus

Career: Active from 1967 to 2025, with a break from 2015 to 2024, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 54/100

Highest rated: Heartland
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 65 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Barry Primus Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Wonder
2.6, average 3.4
Spiritual
1.5, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Psychological Thriller 4
Social Commentary 3
Character-Driven 3
Tension 2
Coming-of-Age 2
Complex Relationships 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
Nostalgic 2
Melancholy 2
Show Business 2
Character-Driven Narrative 2
Psychological Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

86

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles · average score 60

Eternity

71

as Older Larry

The Prank

55

as George Wheeler

Arkansas

54

as Old Greek

2010s

5 titles · average score 59

The Irishman

86

as Ewing King

Breakable You

35

as Dr. Chazen

Joy

61

as Rudy's Attorney

The Longest Week

32

as Bernard the Chauffer

American Hustle

81

as Tellegio's Consigliere

2000s

10 titles · average score 62

Inglourious Basterds

81

Thanks

Jackson

as Donald

Righteous Kill

38

as Prosky

as Marty Cole

as Will Fox

Break a Leg

51

as Ira Goldstein

Boston Legal

80

TV show · as Professor Jeffrey Benoit

15 Minutes

43

as Cab Driver

Life as a House

60

as Tom

James Dean

81

as Nicholas Ray

1990s

18 titles · average score 58

Providence

65

TV show · as Gordon

Gold Coast

48

as Ed Grossi

The Practice

76

TV show · as Porn Film Director Goodwin

Crime of the Century

69

as Ellis Parker

Arli$$

70

TV show · as Benny

Trade Off

41

as Detective Gold

The X-Files

76

TV show · as Robert Dorlund

seaQuest DSV

61

TV show · as Frobe Ernst

Mistress

52

Screenplay, Story

Night and the City

57

as Tommy Tessler

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Gary Silver

Denial

49

as Jay

1980s

28 titles · average score 58

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

33

as Ford Maddox

Big Business

59

as Michael

The Stranger

49

as Sergeant Drake

Talking Walls

32

as Professor Hirsch

Stillwatch

as Toby Wilson

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Jack Lambert

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Det. Sgt. Len Berger

Miami Vice

77

TV show · as FBI Agt. Daley

Heartland

86

as Jack

Absence of Malice

70

as Robert Waddell

On Golden Pond

78

Casting

Night Games

45

as Jason St. John

1970s

18 titles · average score 60

The Rose

71

as Dennis

Knots Landing

77

TV show · as Mitch Casey

Avalanche

27

as Mark Elliott

New York, New York

62

as Paul Wilson

Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target

as Harry Jaworsky

Lou Grant

73

TV show

Autopsy

59

as Father Paul Lenox

Big Rose

as Ed Mills

Boxcar Bertha

57

as Rake Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown

54

as Hermann Goering

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

as Gnossos "Paps" Pappadopoulis

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

62

as Aaron Reinhardt

1960s

4 titles · average score 66

Medical Center

67

TV show

The Brotherhood

60

as Vido

The Desperate Hours

as Hank Griffin

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Johnny Younce