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22-591: Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass ; June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of the Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the title characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law , among many roles. Barry was born Eugene Klass on June 14, 1919, in New York City,

44-449: A captain, and Peter Barton as his son Det. Peter Burke. It was produced by Spelling Television . In the revival of the show, which ran on CBS from 1994 to 1995 and was produced by Aaron Spelling 's production company, the title again became Burke's Law and Burke was back at work as a police detective. In the second incarnation, Burke, now a deputy chief, was assisted by his son, Peter ( Peter Barton ). The revival , even more than

66-404: A carnival with their teacher, Ellen Haskell. During a puppet show , he disappears. This is not noticed until his name is announced as the winner of a raffle for a bicycle at the end of the show. They await a phone call as they fear something has happened. They receive a ransom note assembled from words from different newspapers. They also get a phone call saying to stay silent. Ellen's boyfriend

88-415: A family of magazines, and was one of three lead characters. The other two lead actors were Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa , who rotated with Barry week by week as the primary character in each week's program. This series was shown by NBC from 1968 to 1971. One of the magazines that Barry's character published was called People , several years before the actual People began publication. Shortly before

110-571: A glamorous American movie star. Also in 1972, Barry acted in The Second Coming of Suzanne , an avant-garde drama directed by his son Michael and starring Sondra Locke and Paul Sand . He co-financed the film with private backers. Barry returned to Broadway acting on two occasions—in 1962 in The Perfect Setup and in 1983 in the Broadway premiere of the musical La Cage aux Folles . Barry

132-634: A man with Communist ties. The FBI bring him in but are limited in what they can extract. However, Dr. Addison is left in an adjoining room alone. He beats up Clark to ascertain where his son is... in Santa Fe. Tommy is moved by kidnappers to the Puye Cliff Dwellings in New Mexico, where they briefly encounter the Fentons, a family of tourists. The mastermind turns out to be Dr. Rassett, a physicist. He studies

154-526: A nuclear physicist (Barry) lives and works. Terrorists kidnap his son and demand that the physicist turn over the H-bomb formula. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) , Sydney Boehm being the nominee. Frank and Martha Addison live in Los Alamos , where he does top-secret work as a physicist. They have a young son, Tommy, who goes with school mates to Santa Fe for

176-451: Is an FBI agent, Russ Farley, and she passes along her concerns. Farley and partner Harold Mann begin tailing the Addisons. When a kidnapper instructs Frank to steal a file from the atomic lab and mail it to a Los Angeles hotel, he wants to inform the authorities, but Martha fears for their boy. A small-time thief, David Rogers, collects an envelope with the file at a post office, but they alert

198-680: The NBC Television Opera Theatre . In 1955 he appeared on the CBS Television anthology series Appointment with Adventure . In 1951 Barry was hired for his first movie, in the role of Dr. Frank Addison in The Atomic City (1952). In 1953 he was cast as Dr. Clayton Forrester in the science fiction film The War of the Worlds (1953). (Much later, Barry also made a cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg 's remake of War of

220-719: The 1942 revival of Sigmund Romberg 's The New Moon . He later portrayed Falke in Rosalinda (1942), Nova Kovich in The Merry Widow (1943), Lieutenant Bunin in Catherine Was Great (1944), Dorante and Comte De Chateau-Gaillard in The Would-Be Gentleman (1946), The Doctor in Happy as Larry (1950), and played a variety of roles in the musical revue Bless You All (1950). In 1950 Barry began appearing on television with

242-466: The FBI who follow him. He goes to a baseball game, followed by the FBI's agents who ask the TV cameras to zoom into him. After the match they are surprised when his car explodes, killing the man. However Rogers no longer has the envelope. The FBI watch the film footage as they presume he has passed the file to someone at the game. Watching the film footage the FBI spots a hot-dog vendor who is actually Donald Clark,

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264-403: The Worlds (2005), along with his co-star Ann Robinson from the film of 1953.) When the situation comedy Our Miss Brooks was given a change of format in 1955, Barry was cast in a recurring role as the physical education teacher Gene Talbot, the new romantic interest of series star Eve Arden . The show was canceled in 1956, but Barry's character—a ladies' man with expensive tastes—served as

286-407: The file Addison mailed and determines it to be a fake. Rassett orders the boy killed, but Tommy has escaped and is hiding in a cave. The son of the Fentons finds the raffle ticket at the ruins, and back in Santa Fe tries to exchange it for the raffle prize. The area is being watched by the FBI, and they ask where the ticket came from, receiving the vital clue to Tommy's whereabouts. FBI agents rush to

308-560: The filming of The Name of the Game series began, Barry played the villain—a wealthy psychiatrist—in Prescription: Murder , the two-hour TV movie that became the precursor of the TV series Columbo . In 1972, Barry starred in the ITV television series The Adventurer , along with Barry Morse and Catherine Schell . He played Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who posed as

330-449: The final season of the series, the title of the show changed to Amos Burke, Secret Agent . In 1994, a revival of the Burke's Law series returned to television for two seasons on CBS . Barry again played in the title role, this time as a widower working with his son Peter ( Peter Barton ). Barry's third TV series was The Name of the Game , in which he played the sophisticated publisher of

352-609: The following year in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw , also with O'Brian as Wyatt Earp .) In his next TV series, Burke's Law , Barry played a millionaire homicide investigator who was chauffeured in his Rolls-Royce as he solved crimes. This series was broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20, 1963, to May 5, 1965. For his performance in it, Barry won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1965. In 1965–66,

374-440: The laboratory buildings (from a distance). Filming was also done at the Puye Cliff Dwellings . Burke%27s Law (1994 TV series) Burke ' s Law is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS during the 1993–94 and 1994–95 television seasons. It was a revival of original Burke ' s Law television series, and starred Gene Barry as millionaire cop Amos Burke, now deputy chief instead of

396-457: The model for three shows in which he later starred. Bat Masterson , a fictionalized recounting of the life of the real-life U.S. Marshal , gambler, and gunman ( Masterson 's life as a writer and bon vivant occurred long after the time-frame featured in the series) was broadcast by NBC-TV from 1958 to 1961. (In 1990 Barry recreated the role of Bat Masterson for two episodes of Guns of Paradise along with Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp and

418-592: The set of Catherine Was Great . Kalb was an actress known by the stage name Julie Carson. Barry died on December 9, 2009, at Sunrise Senior Living in Woodland Hills , California, at the age of 90. He was buried at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California , with his wife Betty, who died in 2003. The Atomic City The story takes place at Los Alamos, New Mexico , where

440-419: The site, where Rassett is arrested after killing his accomplices, and Tommy is saved. This was the film debut for star Gene Barry and director Jerry Hopper. This was the first feature film allowed to be filmed on location inside the city of Los Alamos, during the period that the entire community was still closed to the public at large. It includes views of the residential neighborhoods, main entrance gate, and of

462-805: The son of Eva (née Conn) and Martin Klass; all of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia and Poland. Barry grew up in New York City and attended New Utrecht High School . Barry exhibited early artistic skills with singing and playing violin as a child and later spent two years at the Chatham Square School of Music in Greenwich Village on a scholarship awarded for his vocal ability. Barry chose his professional name in honor of John Barrymore and made his Broadway debut as Captain Paul Duval in

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484-654: Was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Georges in Cage . For his contribution to live theatre, Gene Barry received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6555 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1975 Barry bought a home in Palm Springs, California . A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him in 1994. On October 22, 1944, at age 25, Barry married Betty Claire Kalb (1923–2003), whom he met on

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