Oliver Barbour

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-10-23 (64 years old)

Deathday

1968-04-11

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Oliver Barbour

Biography

Producer, actor, director and advertising representative for, and vice-president of Benton & Bowles. In the 1930s, he acted in the Broadway plays "John Brown", "Ethan Frome", "The Body Beautiful" and some others. For summer-stock productions he directed Ethel Barrymore in "Constant Wife", Edward Everett Horton in "Springtime for Henry", Laurette Taylor in "Candida", and Eddie Dowling in "Our Town". He later became a freelance daytime radio producer, presenting many episodes of "Life Can Be Beautiful", "The Parker Family" and "Light of the World". While living in California, he was a vice-president for the Beverly Hills office of the ...

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