Barry Corbin

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-10-16 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Lamesa, Texas. USA

Barry Corbin

Biography

Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for...

Acting

1983

WarGames

as General Beringer

1988

Critters 2

as Harv

-

The Dilemma

as Gerald

1990

Ghost Dad

as Mr. Emery Collins

2009

Wyvern

as Haas

1980

Stir Crazy

as Warden Walter Beatty

1989

Who's Harry Crumb?

as P.J. Downing

2007

In the Valley of Elah

as Arnold Bickman

1990

Short Time

as Captain

1996

Curdled

as Lodger

2010

Ben 10 Alien Swarm

as Grandpa Max Tennyson

2021

2020

2019

The Margarita Man

as Chief Doyle

2008

Lake City

as George

1996

My Son Is Innocent

as Dan Pendleton

2001

Crossfire Trail

as Sheriff Walter Moncrief

1996

Solo

as General Clyde Haynes

1986

Nothing in Common

as Andrew Woolridge

1997

The Hired Heart

as Mike Hadley

1990

The Hot Spot

as Sheriff

1991

Conagher

as Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver

2003

Monte Walsh

as Bob the Storekeeper

1982

Honkytonk Man

as Arnspriger

2010

NoNAMES

as Ed

1991

Career Opportunities

as Officer Don

2010

Rising Stars

as Farmer

1980

Urban Cowboy

as Uncle Bob

1980

1982

Six Pack

as Sheriff

2006

1985

My Science Project

as Lew Harlan

2011

1999

Held Up

as Pembry

1999

A Face to Kill for

as Frank Hadley

1986

John Henry

as Mr. Jenkins

2011

Feed the Fish

as Axel Andersen

2003

Timequest

as Lyndon Johnson

1987

Under Cover

as Sergeant Irwin Lee

1999

Sealed with a Kiss

as Wink 'Pop' Blake

2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

as Undertaker Turton

2011

Valley of the Sun

as Gene Taggart

1985

What Comes Around

as Leon Redden

2001

No One Can Hear You

as Sheriff Joe Webster

2011

Sedona

as Les

2005

River's End

as Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins

2013

Shadow on the Mesa

as Jake Rawlins

2002

Clover Bend

as Cotton Clayton

2002

Hope Ranch

as Shorty

2013

This Is Where We Live

as Bode Warden

2006

Waitin' to Live

as Buford Pike

-

2013

1981

1986

C.A.T. Squad

as The Director

1981

This House Possessed

as Lt. Fletcher

1987

LBJ: The Early Years

as Judge Alvin J. Wirtz

1986

The Defiant Ones

as Floyd Carpenter

2008

Beer for My Horses

as Buck Baker

2014

Planes: Fire & Rescue

as Ol' Jammer (voice)

1991

The Chase

as Wallis

1992

The Keys

as Buckaloo

2007

The Grand

as Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro

1990

Last Flight Out

as Capt. Bob Berg

1987

1994

Moon Shot

as Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)

1996

Kiss and Tell

as George Reed

1986

Firefighter

as Capt. Johnson

2017

Ay Lav Yu Tuu

as Danny Brown

2015

1988

1987

Off the Mark

as Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa

2012

Born Wild

as Ray Jennings

1984

-

1988

It Takes Two

as George Lawrence

2011

The Next Door Neighbor

as Judge Rodgers

2006

Hidden Places

as Sheriff

2012

Ghoul

as Grandfather

2022

The Bay House

as Cowden Brooks

2016

Last Man Club

as Pete Williams

2016

Windsor

as Gil Denton

1997

The Fumbleheads

as Robert Blister

2016

New Life

as Oscar

2017

All Saints

as Forrest

1995

Siringo

as Marshall John Llewellyn

2014

The Homesman

as Buster Shaver

2005

Alien Express

as Senator Frank Rawlings

1974

The Super Cops

as Onlooker on Ladder (uncredited)

1982

Fantasies

as Naylor

2017

An American in Texas

as Larry Korchinsky

1986

Hard Traveling

as Frank Burton

2010

Bloodworth

as Itchy

2018

The Valley

as Gary

2017

Mountain Top

as Sam Miller

1995

1983

2014

The Hitchhiker

as Leonard

2019

Trading Paint

as Sheriff Buck Taylor

1982

Prime Suspect

as Bob Austin

2019

1980

Rage!

as Resident #5

2003

Dunsmore

as Sheriff Breen

2018

2004

The Gristle

as Senator Dorm

1982

Bus Stop

as Virgil Blessing

1995

Virus

as Dr. Clayman

1988

Man Against the Mob

as Big Mac McCleary

2009

Not Since You

as Uncle Dennis

1988

Permanent Record

as Jim Sinclair

2001

The Journeyman

as Charlie Ledbetter

1981

Bitter Harvest

as Dr. Agajanian

2021

Magic Max

as Grismer

1983

Travis McGee

as Sheriff Hack Ames

2009

That Evening Sun

as Thurl Chessor

-

The Pipeline

as Lester Galloway

2005

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