- Barry Hickey (aka Barry James Hickey) has worn many hats in his illustrious career as a stage and screen actor, novelist, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, director, and producer. Born on the south side of Chicago (one of nine siblings), in his early years he was a stage actor (Oedipus Rex, Jubilee, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Oklahoma, and I Do-I Do, to name a few). He was the lead singer in Outer Drive, a Rock & Roll band in Chicago and The Acapulco Road Show, a touring country group in Colorado. Moving to Hollywood in his late twenties he starred in a handful of films before branching into screenwriting, directing and producing. He also worked as an executive assistant for studio heads at Disney, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and CBS Television. His last major role was starring in a Chollywood film in India (Kaadal Oor Aalayam). In the past decade Hickey has written eight novels.- IMDb Mini Biography By: CheerfulPictures@aol.com
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- Barry worked his way through college as a canoe guide and country singer.
- Director Ulli Lommel and Barry attempted to adapt Nicholas Pileggi's 'Casino' and John O'Brien's 'Leaving Las Vegas' to the screen, both projects fell through.
- Wrote a script for a sequel to Ulli Lommel's The Boogey Man (1980) but it was never used.
- Ulli Lommel hired him to write the screen adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel 'Fools Die'. Six drafts were written before they were both satisfied with the script. But the project fell apart when they discovered another producer had been given the same rights by Puzo.
- Besides a long career in film, theater and music, Barry James Hickey is a popular American novelist.
- [on Ulli Lommel and The Boogey Man (1980)] He's working on another Bogeyman film. I actually wrote a Bogeyman script for him a few years back. But he never used it. He keeps returning to these films because he knows the genre works and because there is a demand for it.
- [on Ulli Lommel] He is probably one of the worst directors in Hollywood. Like Edward D. Wood Jr.. Ulli is a kind of simple person. He likes the simple things. He often has the ideas but not the budget to do it. I often wonder what would happen if he was given $30 million and production designers. But he's still making these movies for $15,000, $100,000, and $200,000.
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