Walter Barnes

Walter Barnes

Birthday: 1918-01-26

Deathday: 1998-01-06

Place of birth: Rennert, North Carolina, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0055812

Biography:

Walter Lee Barnes was an American football guard and actor who played in National Football League (NFL) for four seasons. He played in the (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and in college at Louisiana State University. Barnes was an actor in both American and European films. He appeared in several films with John Wayne, Lex Barker, and Clint Eastwood. Barnes entered acting after appearing several times on The Eagles Nest, a local Philadelphia television show. WCAU television placed him on several local shows. His contacts with Walt Silver, a producer for Warner Bros. Television, led him into several appearances on television and films. Some of his more notable appearances included Bronco, Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, Bonanza, Have Gun – Will Travel and Death Valley Days. John Wayne got him a small role as Charlie the Bartender in Rio Bravo. Tiring of small roles and seeing opportunities overseas, Barnes was one of the many American actors who moved to Italy in the early 1960s. Kirk Douglas recommended him for a role in his The Vikings television spinoff Tales of the Vikings that was filmed for Douglas's production company in Germany. From 1960 to 1969, he was first active in pirate movies, then Karl May film adaptations and Spaghetti Westerns. Barnes returned to the United States in 1969 and appeared in more films and television series, which included The High Chaparral. His friendship with Clint Eastwood on Rawhide later led him to several roles in Eastwood's films. He retired from acting in 1987 and became increasingly ill due to his diabetes. He was the father of German former actress Lara Wendel, who was born Daniela Barnes.

Played in movies:

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield

Score: 10.0

Coup D'Etat

Score: 8.0

Rio Bravo

Score: 7.8

High Plains Drifter

Score: 7.3

The Big Gundown

Score: 7.3

Apache Gold

Score: 6.9

Robin Hood and the Pirates

Score: 6.5

Target Frankie

Score: 6.5

Avenger of the Seven Seas

Score: 6.5

Escape to Witch Mountain

Score: 6.4

Bronco Billy

Score: 6.3

Pete's Dragon

Score: 6.3

Rampage at Apache Wells

Score: 6.3

Frontier Hellcat

Score: 6.3

Westbound

Score: 6.2

Revolt in the Big House

Score: 6.2

Every Which Way but Loose

Score: 6.1

Drakut the Avenger

Score: 6.1

Winnetou and the Crossbreed

Score: 6.1

Cahill: United States Marshal

Score: 6.1

The Young Runaways

Score: 6.0

Revenge of the Musketeers

Score: 6.0

Another Man, Another Chance

Score: 6.0

The Traveling Executioner

Score: 5.9

The Moment to Kill

Score: 5.8

Mackintosh and T.J.

Score: 5.6

Day of the Animals

Score: 5.2

Daddy's Deadly Darling

Score: 5.1

Halleluja for Django

Score: 5.1

Captain Sindbad

Score: 5.0

The Secret of the Black Falcon

Score: 5.0

Romulus and the Sabines

Score: 5.0

Duel at Sundown

Score: 5.0

Sign of Zorro

Score: 5.0

Clint the Stranger

Score: 4.7

Oregon Passage

Score: 4.6

The Christian Licorice Store

Score: 4.4

Garter Colt

Score: 4.4

Queen of the Seas

Score: 4.3

Challenge of the Gladiator

Score: 3.7

Smokey Bites the Dust

Score: 2.2

Power

Score: 2.0

The Sky Trap

Score: 0.0

Slave Girls of Sheba

Score: 0.0

Liebesnächte in der Taiga

Score: 0.0

The Secret of the Blue Men

Score: 0.0

The Blue Knight

Score: 0.0

The Magnificent Tony Carrera

Score: 0.0

Movin' On

Score: 0.0

Hog Wild

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

North and South

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Stingray

Score: 7.2

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Walking Tall

Score: 5.7

Bronco

Score: 5.2

Kodiak

Score: 5.0

Tales of the Vikings

Score: 5.0

Action in the Afternoon

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8