Barry Corbin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Barry Corbin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American actor.

His most well-known role came in the television series Northern

Exposure (1990â€"1995), for which he was consecutively nominated for

two Primetime Emmy Awards.Corbin was born in Lamesa, the seat of

Dawson County, south of Lubbock in West Texas. He is the son of the

former Alma LaMerle Scott (1918â€"1994), a teacher, and Kilmer Blaine

Corbin, Sr. (1919â€"1993), a school principal, judge, and Democratic

member of the Texas State Senate for two terms, from 1949â€"1957.

Corbin was named for author J. M. Barrie by his mother. He played

football briefly in eighth grade, but soon moved to the arts,

including acting and ballet classes. He graduated from Monterey High

School. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in

Lubbock. At 21, he joined the United States Marine Corps, served two

years, and then returned to Tech.Corbin began his career as a

Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he is more likely to be

seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other

authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed

murderous villains, as well. To moviegoers, he is well remembered as

General Beringer in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle Bob Davis in Urban

Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or

Roscoe Brown, July Johnson's bumbling deputy in the acclaimed Western

Lonesome Dove.From 1979 until 1984, he appeared in several episodes of

Dallas as Sheriff Fenton Washburn. In 1983, Corbin co-starred in the

famed television miniseries The Thorn Birds. Corbin played Mary

Carson's stockman Pete, who teaches the Clearys' sons how to shear

sheep on their aunt's gigantic sheep station Drogheda, in Australia.

In 1983â€"1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television

series Boone. Corbin's role was that of a stern father to the young

actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The

program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by

Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons.
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