Barry Dennen
Known For
Acting
Born
1938-02-22 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
2017-09-26
Biography
Barry Dennen (February 22, 1938–September 26, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and writer. Dennen was born in Chicago, Illinois. In New York City from 1960 to 1963, he had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, including living together for a year, during which time he helped her develop the nightclub act that began her successful career as a singer and actress. He moved to London for fifteen years and in 1968 landed the starring role of the master of ceremonies in the London version of Cabaret. In 1970, he played Pontius Pilate on the album of Jesus Christ Superstar, and he played the same role in the Broadway production (1971). In the same year, he played Mendel in Norman Jewison's film of Fiddler on the Roof. According to Dennen's website, he suggested to Jewison that he direct a film of Superstar. Jewison did so, and Dennen played Pilate again (1973). He was the voice actor who portrayed the Chamberlain SkekSil in The Dark Crystal. He has also done voice work on such cartoons as DuckTales, Batman: The Animated Series, The Pirates of Dark Water, Animaniacs, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Since that time Dennen has had a variety of small parts on American television shows and films, including: Batman; Superman III; The Kentucky Fried Movie; The Shining; Galtar and the Golden Lance; Tales from the Darkside and Titanic. He played auto dealer Irwin Lapsey in Shock Treatment, the sequel toThe Rocky Horror Picture Show. He has also done voices for many video games, including Fatman in Metal Gear Solid 2, Police Chief Bogen in Grim Fandango, Mimir in the recent video game Too Human, Dean Domino in Fallout: New Vegas expansion "Dead Money", and the Dark One in The Mark of Kri. He wrote the screenplay for an episode of Amazing Stories titled "The Secret Cinema" (1985) and cowrote an episode of The Comic Strip Presents... titled "Demonella" (1993). His autobiographical book, My Life With Barbra: A Love Story (1997), deals with their relationship and with his gradual realization that he was a homosexual. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Dennen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Ramsis Dendup / Rebel / Citizen (voice)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Ramsis Dendup (voice)
Batman: The Animated Series
as Shadow Agent (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
as Sheldon Persky
Batman
as Fred
Titanic
as Praying Man
DuckTales
DuckTales
as Moorloon the Wizard / Vacation Van Honk (voice)
Hill Street Blues
Avatar: The Last Airbender
as General Sung (voice)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
as Additional Voices (voice)
L.A. Law
as Clerk
Batman Beyond
as Captain (voice)
Amazing Stories
as news dealer
The Shining
as Watson
Tales from the Darkside
as Aldo D
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
as John Eric (voice)
Newhart
as Winston Bedell
Murphy Brown
as Waiter
Wonder Woman
as Hitler