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Barry Dennen

Acting

Born February 22, 1938 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died September 26, 2017

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.

Filmography35 titles

Avatar: The Last Airbender

2005as General Sung (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

1992as Shadow Agent (voice)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008as Ramsis Dendup / Rebel / Citizen (voice)

Batman Beyond

1999as Captain (voice)

The Shining

1980as Watson

Animaniacs

1993as Czar (voice)

Titanic

1997as Praying Man

Fiddler on the Roof

1971as Mendel

DuckTales

1987as Moorloon the Wizard / Vacation Van Honk (voice)

The Real Ghostbusters

1986as Charon / Governor (voice)

Hill Street Blues

1981

Amazing Stories

1985as news dealer

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Sheldon Persky

Batman

1966as Fred

Trading Places

1983as Demitri

L.A. Law

1986as Clerk

The Dark Crystal

1982as Chamberlain / Podling (voice)

Jesus Christ Superstar

1973as Pontius Pilate

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis

2015as Defense Advisor (voice)

Superstars: The Documentary

2015

Ragtime

1981as Stage Manager

Wonder Woman

1975as Hitler

Beau Geste

as Buddy

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984

2017as Self

Weird Science

1994

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

1995as John Eric (voice)

Murphy Brown

1988as Waiter

Heavenly Sword

2014as Flying Fox / Prophet Takashi (voice)

Madhouse

1974as Gerry Blount

Brannigan

1975as Julian

Monster Squad

as Mr. Mephisto

Superman III

1983as Dr. McClean

Clifford

1994as Terry the Pterodactyl

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991as Stage Manager

Not for Publication

1984as Senor Wopperico