Barry Corbin

Corbin began his career as a Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he is more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed murderous villains, as well. To moviegoers, he is well remembered as General Beringer in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle Bob Davis in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or Roscoe Brown, July Johnson's bumbling deputy in the acclaimed Western Lonesome Dove.

From 1979 until 1984, he appeared in several episodes of Dallas as Sheriff Fenton Washburn. In 1983, Corbin co-starred in the famed television miniseries The Thorn Birds. Corbin played Mary Carson's stockman Pete, who teaches the Clearys' sons how to shear sheep on their aunt's gigantic sheep station Drogheda, in Australia. In 1983–1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series Boone. Corbin's role was that of a stern father to the young actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons.

From 1990 to 1995, Corbin portrayed former astronaut and local business leader Maurice Minnifield on CBS's Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

In 1994, Corbin narrated the acclaimed TBS documentary MoonShot, telling the story of the 1960s space race from the first-person viewpoint of Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton. In 2007, he played the character Clay Johnson, father of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer series.[citation needed]

Corbin played the role of General Carville in consecutive video games developed by Westwood Studios. In 1998, Red Alert: Retaliation. In 2000, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and the 2001 expansion, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge.

In 2003, Corbin co-starred with Northern Exposure castmate John Cullum in Blackwater Elegy, an award-winning short film written by Matthew Porter and co-directed by Porter and Joe O'Brien.

From 2003–2009, Corbin played Whitey Durham, the basketball coach for the Tree Hill Ravens on The WB/CW teenager drama series One Tree Hill.[citation needed] He also had a role in 2007's Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men.

Corbin lost most of his hair in the 1990s due to alopecia areata. Since then, he has played various roles with a shaved head, wearing a cowboy hat, or occasionally wearing a full toupee.

Corbin is the signature voice of radio station KPLX in Fort Worth, Texas, and has also voiced trailers and promotions for CMT and various other country radio stations.[6] In 2014, he became the spokesman for the Texas Veterans Land Board. He also played a role in the Netflix series The Ranch.

In 2020, Corbin had a recurring guest role as Everett Acker in Better Call Saul.

Personal life
Corbin has won many cutting-horse competitions.[2] Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small Texas ranch near Fort Worth. He has volunteered his time to charity for many years, including rodeos and being spokesman for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.[2] In 2006, he participated in the Lubbock centennial.[7]

Corbin lives on the ranch in Texas with his wife, Jo. Corbin’s daughter Shannon had been adopted as an infant; her birth mother, who had a relationship with Corbin in college, gave up the child through the Methodist Mission Home in San Antonio, without having told Corbin of the pregnancy. Corbin found Shannon in June 1991, when she was 26. Corbin has three sons: Bernard Weiss, Jim Corbin, and Christopher Corbin.[4]

In 2009, Corbin was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.[8] A recent painting of Corbin has been placed at the museum exhibit.[9] Corbin has appeared at gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration each September in Lubbock.[10]

In September 2011, Corbin was given a lifetime achievement award by the Estes Park Film Festival in Estes Park, Colorado.[11] The Texas Film Hall of Fame inducted Corbin into its membership on March 8, 2012.[2]

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1980 Urban Cowboy Bob Davis
Stir Crazy Warden Walter Beatty
Any Which Way You Can Fat Zack Tupper
1981 Dead & Buried Phil
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Wimbish
1982 The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez B.R. Abernathy
Six Pack Sheriff "Big John" Stone
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas C.J.
Honkytonk Man Derwood Arnspriger
1983 WarGames General Jack Beringer
The Man Who Loved Women Roy Carr
1985 What Comes Around Leon Redden
My Science Project Lew Harlan
1986 Nothing in Common Andrew Woolridge
Hard Traveling Frank Burton
1987 Under Cover Sergeant Irwin Lee
Off the Mark Walt Warner
1988 Permanent Record Jim Sinclair
Critters 2: The Main Course Harv
It Takes Two George Lawrence
1989 Who's Harry Crumb? P.J. Downing
1990 Short Time Captain
Ghost Dad Mr. Emery Collins
The Hot Spot Sheriff
1991 Conagher Charlie McCloud
Career Opportunities Officer Don
1996 Solo General Clyde Haynes
Curdled Lodger
1997 The Fanatics Robert Blister
1999 Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story Tony Serra
Held Up Pembry
2000 Timequest Lyndon B. Johnson
2001 The Journeyman Charlie Ledbetter
No One Can Hear You Sheriff Joe Webster
Race to Space Earl Vestal
The Gristle Senator Dorm
2002 Clover Bend Cotton
2003 Dunsmore Sheriff Breen
Tin Can Shinny Daddy Jack
2005 Yesterday's Dreams Pastor
River's End Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins
The Dukes of Hazzard Mr. Pullman Uncredited
2006 Waitin' to Live Buford Pike
Beautiful Dreamer Grandpa
2007 No Country for Old Men Ellis
The Grand Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro
Trail End Hank Short
In the Valley of Elah Arnold Bickman
2008 Lake City George
Beer for My Horses Buck Baker
2009 That Evening Sun Thurl Chessor
Not Since You Uncle Dennis
2010 Bloodworth Itchy
Rising Stars Farmer
Nonames Ed
Feed the Fish Axel Andersen
The Next Door Neighbor Judge Rodgers
2011 Sedona Les
Valley of the Sun Gene Taggert
Universal Squadrons Deakin
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead Judge Smith
3 Blind Saints Rusty Pickens
2012 Cinema Six Roger
The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez Walker
Born Wild Ray Jennings
2013 This Is Where We Live Bode
2014 Dawn of the Crescent Moon Cyrus
The Homesman Buster Shaver
Planes: Fire & Rescue Ol' Jammer Voice
Finding Harmony Grady Pickett
2015 Windsor Gil Denton
Beyond the Farthest Star Chief Burns
Christmas in the Smokies Wade Haygood
2016 Last Man Club Pete Williams
New Life Oscar
2017 Mountain Top Sam Miller
The Valley Gary
All Saints Forrest
An American in Texas Larry Korchinsky
2018 Farmer of the Year Hap Anderson
2019 Trading Paint Deputy
Eminence Hill Noah
TBA Killers of the Flower Moon Undertaker Turton Filming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Corbin

Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Maurice Minnifield on the television series Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

His other notable credits include the films Urban Cowboy (1980), Stir Crazy (1980), WarGames (1983), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as the television series Dallas (1979–1984), Lonesome Dove (1989), One Tree Hill (2003–2009), The Closer (2007–2012), and The Ranch (2016–2020).

Early life

Corbin was born in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, south of Lubbock in West Texas. He is the son of the former Alma LaMerle Scott (1918–1994), a teacher, and Kilmer Blaine Corbin, Sr. (1919–1993), a school principal, judge, and Democratic member of the Texas State Senate for two terms, from 1949–1957.[citation needed] Corbin was named for author J. M. Barrie by his mother. He played football briefly in eighth grade, but soon moved to the arts, including acting and ballet classes. He graduated from Monterey High School. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. At 21, he joined the United States Marine Corps, served two years, and then returned to Tech.

Career

Corbin began his career as a Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he is more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed murderous villains, as well. To moviegoers, he is well remembered as General Beringer in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle Bob Davis in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or Roscoe Brown, July Johnson's bumbling deputy in the acclaimed Western Lonesome Dove.

From 1979 until 1984, he appeared in several episodes of Dallas as Sheriff Fenton Washburn. In 1983, Corbin co-starred in the famed television miniseries The Thorn Birds. Corbin played Mary Carson's stockman Pete, who teaches the Clearys' sons how to shear sheep on their aunt's gigantic sheep station Drogheda, in Australia. In 1983–1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series Boone. Corbin's role was that of a stern father to the young actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons.

From 1990 to 1995, Corbin portrayed former astronaut and local business leader Maurice Minnifield on CBS's Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

In 1994, Corbin narrated the acclaimed TBS documentary MoonShot, telling the story of the 1960s space race from the first-person viewpoint of Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton. In 2007, he played the character Clay Johnson, father of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer series.

Corbin played the role of General Carville in consecutive video games developed by Westwood Studios. In 1998, Red Alert: Retaliation. In 2000, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and the 2001 expansion, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge.

In 2003, Corbin co-starred with Northern Exposure castmate John Cullum in Blackwater Elegy, an award-winning short film written by Matthew Porter and co-directed by Porter and Joe O'Brien.

From 2003–2009, Corbin played Whitey Durham, the basketball coach for the Tree Hill Ravens on The WB/CW teenager drama series One Tree Hill. He also had a role in 2007's Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men.

Corbin lost most of his hair in the 1990s due to alopecia areata. Since then, he has played various roles with a shaved head, wearing a cowboy hat, or occasionally wearing a full toupee.

Corbin is the signature voice of radio station KPLX in Fort Worth, Texas, and has also voiced trailers and promotions for CMT and various other country radio stations. In 2014, he became the spokesman for the Texas Veterans Land Board. He also played a role in the Netflix series The Ranch.

In 2020, Corbin had a recurring guest role as Everett Acker in Better Call Saul.

Personal life

Corbin has won many cutting-horse competitions. Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small Texas ranch near Fort Worth. He has volunteered his time to charity for many years, including rodeos and being spokesman for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. In 2006, he participated in the Lubbock centennial.

Corbin lives on the ranch in Texas with his wife, Jo. Corbin’s daughter Shannon had been adopted as an infant; her birth mother, who had a relationship with Corbin in college, gave up the child through the Methodist Mission Home in San Antonio, without having told Corbin of the pregnancy. Corbin found Shannon in June 1991, when she was 26. Corbin has three sons: Bernard Weiss (born 1970), Jim Corbin (born 1979), and Christopher Corbin (born 1982).

In 2009, Corbin was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. A recent painting of Corbin has been placed at the museum exhibit. Corbin has appeared at gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration each September in Lubbock.

In September 2011, Corbin was given a lifetime achievement award by the Estes Park Film Festival in Estes Park, Colorado. The Texas Film Hall of Fame inducted Corbin into its membership on March 8, 2012.

Filmography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Corbin#Filmography