David Barry

David Barry has been an actor for more than 50 years having started treading the boards at the age of 12. Aged 14 he toured Europe in Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and also appeared in many films including Abandon Ship and The Prince and The Pauper. In his early twenties he played Frankie Abbott in the television sitcoms Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang, and in the feature films Please Sir! and he played Elvis in George and Mildred the Movie. It was during the...See more

David Barry has been an actor for more than 50 years having started treading the boards at the age of 12. Aged 14 he toured Europe in Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and also appeared in many films including Abandon Ship and The Prince and The Pauper. In his early twenties he played Frankie Abbott in the television sitcoms Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang, and in the feature films Please Sir! and he played Elvis in George and Mildred the Movie. It was during the making of The Fenn Street Gang series that he began script writing, writing one broadcast episode and he also wrote for Thames TV's Keep It in The Family. He has appeared in countless TV shows, including The Bill, Never the Twain and A Mind to Kill. His theatre appearances include: The Creeper, One For The Pot, The Taming of The Shrew, Funny Money and Under Milk Wood. His first novel, Each Man Kills, was published in 2002, and he went on to write six more crime novels, a children's book, and a collection of short stories set in Soho. He has appeared in his own play, A Day in The Lives of Frankie Abbott at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and he presents a weekly show on Channel Radio. He occasionally gives after lunch or dinner talks about his career. He lives in Tunbridge Wells and has two grown up children. www.davidbarryauthor.co.uk See less