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Barry Primus - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Barry Primus - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, music videos.
American film and television actor, has acted as a producer, director and screenwriter for several films. Born February 16, 1938.
He teaches courses in acting and directing at the American Film Institute, the University of Los Angeles and a number of other higher educational institutions in the United States.
Remembering his youth, he argued that "I would have easily become a criminal if I had not decided to become an artist."
After graduating from high school, he studied at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, famous for such graduates of the time as Murray Abraham, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino. Since the early 1960s, he has starred in minor roles in the TV series Defenders (1962), East / West / East Side / West Side (1963-1964), New York Police / NYPD (1968) and others.
In the early 1970s, Barry Primus received a prominent role in the film Boxcar Bertha (1972) from the budding director Martin Scorsese in the film Boxcar Bertha (1972), a crime drama about the history of a gang of train robbers that actually existed in the 1930s , and in 1977 in his own film "New York, New York" / New York, New York Barry already plays with such stars as Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli. In the 1980s, Barry continues to actively appear on television, in particular in the CBS series "Cagney & Lacey" / Cagney & Lacey, where he plays the role of a close friend of one of the main characters.
In 1991, he again co-operated with De Niro, this time in Guilty by Suspicion.
In 1992, Barry Primus first tries himself as a scriptwriter and director: he shoots the film Mistress, a tragicomedy about the sides of Hollywood life hidden from the viewer. The film has an interesting cast: Danny Aiello, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro and others.
In 1993-1994. Barry Primus is mainly engaged in episodic filming in such TV series as The X Files / The X Files, Los Angeles Law / LA Law.
He devotes most of his time to teaching - he reads a course of lectures on professional craftsmanship at the acting and directing departments at the American Film Institute, the University of California Los Angeles, the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and a number of other educational institutions in the USA and many countries of the world. So in the spring of 2006, Barry held master classes at the International Film Workshop in Russia, and in the summer of the same year at the Hollywood School in Ukraine.
