- Comedian who worked in Las Vegas for over 5 decades, starting at the El Rancho in 1946. Dave Barry worked in almost every major hotel and as the opening act for many of the top performers including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Midnight Idol Wayne Newton for over 10 years.
- Began as a teenager on radio with The Major Bowes Amateur Hour in 1935 at the age of 17 in New York.
- Children: Sons Alan, Kerry, Steven, and Dana; and daughter Wendy.
- Dave Barry was a busy voice-over artist, performing in over 50 cartoons and features starting in the 1930's. He also provided voices & impersonations for several popular novelty records and a series of Capitol Records children's albums in the 1950s, including a gurgling goose and a sneezing duck.
- Appeared in the 1966 Elvis movie "Spinout" as Elvis's touring manager Harry.
- Appeared as a regular member of the on-air cast of "The Jimmy Durante Show" starting in 1947-1948 doing numerous voice impersonations, sounds, and the bumbling "Mr. Ripple," the commissioner of waterways, with his unique underwater gurgle voice. His real life 6 year old son (Alan Barry) also made guest appearances as his son "Trickle.".
- Had a role with his real son Alan Barry in Marilyn Monroe's 1948 3rd film, "Ladies Of The Chorus".
- Besides the part of Bienstock, in the movie "Some Like It Hot" Dave Barry also was the unseen voice of the overhead train station announcer as Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are running in drag to catch their train! "Florida limited leaving on track one for Washington, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville and Miami. All aboard - all aboard.".
- Dave Barry opened for Judy Garland for a two week engagement from Nov 30-Dec 13, 1965 at the Sahara Las Vegas. Garland received standing ovations, many of the shows attended by celebs like Lee Marvin and Buddy Hackett. Barry at the time was quoted saying "It's a real status symbol (to play Vegas). In fact Judy likes it so much that she signed a new contract for next year - NO shows!".
- For his popular TV show In 1959, comedian Jack Benny asked Liberace to record some voices of him sneering from a TV set for one of the show's gags. Liberace gladly recorded the lines for Columbia records. When Jack Benny heard the so called "wild lines," he complained to him that "they don't sound the way I wanted you to sound. You just don't sound exaggerated enough!" As it turned out the real Liberace sounded so little like the publicized concept of him, that Jack Benny hired Dave Barry to record the Liberace voices for the TV show the way that Liberace was supposed to.
- Barry met singer Ginnny "Ginger Wayne" (Seiden) doing a vaudeville tour across the USA with Unit #1 of Major Bowes Amateur Hour performers in the late 1930's. He met her on the tour while performing over 30 shows weekly. The two fell in love and ended up getting married on stage in 1940 at a Major Bowes show in Hibbing MN - in a rousing cheer-filled Jewish ceremony witnessed by their fellow performers.
- In June 1949 Dave Barry made his first London appearance with The Marx Brothers as headliners (Harpo and Chico). They were booked for a month at the London Palladium, and Barry opened the show at the spectacular theater for a month long run. Variety Magazine said "Newcomer to London is Dave Barry, who makes an instant hit as a comedian. Doing everything from noises on a radio show to impersonations of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, with a running commentary of a boxing match and an advertising show, he works hard and rated the warm reception accorded him.".
- In the Monkees TV episode "Monkee Chow Mein," actor Mike Farrell appears as a secret agent. Farrell's voice in the show was actually dubbed, and was the real voice of Dave Barry (who also played Inspector Blount in episode). Farrell was a mostly unknown bit actor at the time, and later became famous for his role in MASH.
- Dave Barry co-hosted two of the earliest Miss Universe contests in Long Beach California in 1957 and 1958, with co-emcee singer/songwriter Ed Hennessy. The shows were broadcast nationally, with more than 3 million viewers. 1959 was the last year that the pageant was held at Veteran's Memorial Stadium in Long Beach, before it moved to Miami Beach Florida in 1960 prior to the establishment of the Miss International pageant.
- Dave Barry appeared on a total of 8 episodes of the Ed Sullivan show. He first appeared in December 5th 1948 on Ed Sullivan's original "Toast Of The Town" on the first ever kinescope re-broadcast by Ed Sullivan and NBC to the West Coast the next day, marking television history. Barry would go on to appear with Ed Sullivan on his show 7 more times, with a final comedy monologue in February 1964 on the legendary 3rd appearance by the Beatles.
- On December 20th 1950, Dave Barry was asked to emcee "Hollywood Palladium Star Time," a new band & vaudeville variety show on the new KLAC TV in Los Angeles (which later became KCOP 13). He took over hosting duties from Los Angeles disc jockey Don Otis. In these early days of television, actress Betty White and Regis Philben also made appearances on KLAC TV.
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