Barry Atwater

Garrett "Barry" Atwater (May 16, 1918 – May 24, 1978) was an American character actor who appeared frequently on television from the 1950s into the 1970s. He appeared on Gunsmoke in 1959, Season 5, Episode 22,Twilight Zone (1960), Lawman (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Mission: Impossible, Bewitched (1966); Star Trek: The Original Series, Mannix (1968); Hawaii Five-0 (1970); Kung Fu (1974); and The Rockford Files (1977). 2Life and career The son of the landscape painter of the same name, Garrett Atwater was born in Denver, Colorado. He served as head of the UCLA Sound Department before he began his acting career. His work teaching audio techniques led to a role in the student film A Time Out of War, a Civil War allegory that won the Oscar as best short film of 1954. He began appearing often in television episodes, often as a primary guest star — even playing the title characters on episodes of such shows as The Millionaire, Meet McGraw, The Court of Last Resort, One Step Beyond (as Abraham Lincoln), Cheyenne (as George Armstrong Custer), The Rebel, Empire, and Riverboat. By 1960, he had achieved enough stature to be named by host Rod Serling in the on-screen promo as one of the stars of the well-known CBS Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". Atwater made six guest appearances on Perry Mason including as Robert Benson in the 1959 episode "The Case of the Dangerous Dowager". Atwater also performed regularly on stage throughout his career. In the mid-1960s, Atwater spent three years on the ABC soap opera General Hospital while he also made prime-time appearances, billing himself as G.B. Atwater from 1963–65, during a period in which he was cast in supporting part