Barry Tubb | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Actor, writer |
Years active | 1983–2014 |
Notable work | Top Gun Bay City Blues Hill Street Blues The Legend of Billie Jean Lonesome Dove The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
Barry York Tubb (born February 13, 1963) is an American actor and director. He has worked in both television and film between 1983 and 2014.
Tubb was born in Snyder, Texas, in 1963. He won the state bull-riding championship at age 15 (junior division). After graduating from Snyder High School in 1981, he began stage training in San Francisco. Tubb moved to Hollywood in the mid '80s to begin his screen- and television-acting career.
He earned a regular role on the short-lived baseball ensemble series Bay City Blues and later a recurring role as a rookie police officer on Hill Street Blues . He played a shy homosexual boy who comes out to his parents in Consenting Adult , and a wealthy corporate upstart involved in murder in Billionaire Boys Club. Barry's most popular television role was that of Jasper Fant in the epic Westerns Lonesome Dove and its sequel Return to Lonesome Dove in 1993, which were partly set in his native Texas.
Moving on to film, Barry accepted supporting roles in Mask , The Legend of Billie Jean , and as Wolfman in Top Gun . In 1988, he co-starred with Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave in the Broadway production of Sweet Sue, in which he appeared nude, and which had a run of 164 performances. The following year, he appeared in the drama Warm Summer Rain opposite Kelly Lynch. Barry turned to independent filming and other interests outside of Hollywood. In 1991, he moved to France and rode in a Wild West show. Barry starred, directed, produced, and co-wrote the Cowboys and Indians low-budget thriller Blood Trail which led to no major offers for distribution.
In 2002, Tubb directed the family film Grand Champion about the exploits a young boy who raises a prize-winning steer and struggles to save it from the slaughterhouse. He shot the film in his own hometown of Snyder, Texas.
Tubb has participated in gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration each September in Lubbock, Texas. [1]
In 2024, Tubb sued Paramount Pictures for the use of his face in the film Top Gun: Maverick without his permission. [2] [3]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1983 | Christine | Football Player | Uncredited |
1983 | Bay City Blues | Mickey Wagner | 6 episodes |
1984 | Hill Street Blues | Officer Archie Pizer | 4 episodes |
1985 | Consenting Adult | Jeff Lynd | TV movie |
1985 | Mask | Dewey | |
1985 | The Legend of Billie Jean | Hubie Pyatt | |
1986 | Top Gun | Wolfman | |
1986 | American Playhouse | Episode: "The Wide Net" [4] | |
1987 | Billionaire Boys Club | Todd Melbourne | 2 episodes |
1989 | Warm Summer Rain | Guy | |
1989 | Lonesome Dove | Jasper Fant | |
1989 | Valentino Returns [5] | Wayne Gibbs | |
1990 | Without Her Consent | Trey Cousins | TV movie |
1991 | Guilty by Suspicion | Jerry Cooper | |
1993 | Return to Lonesome Dove | Jasper Fant | 4 episodes |
1997 | Blood Trail | Film Director, Writer, Film Producer | |
1999 | The Big Day | Tuff | |
2001 | American Outlaws | Captain Malcolm | |
2002 | Grand Champion | Dr. Alfred / Jesse James Davis | Film Director, Writer, Film Producer |
2004 | Danger Zone: The Making of 'Top Gun' | Himself | |
2005 | Blood Trail | Need Hawks | |
2005 | Truce | AD | |
2005 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | A.L. | |
2008 | Clown Hunt | Gene | |
2009 | Baghdad Texas | Seth | |
2009 | Temple Grandin | Randy | TV movie |
2009-2011 | Friday Night Lights | Tom Cafferty | |
2010 | Dance with the One | Roy | |
2011 | The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy | Sheriff Michaels | |
2011 | Javelina | Tex | |
2013 | Dear Sidewalk | Jim | |
2013-2014 | Revolution | Malcolm Dove | 4 episodes |
2014 | Two Step | Horace | |
2014 | Deliverance Creek | Jeb Crawford | TV movie |
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