Barry Jenner

Barry Jenner

Acting
1941-02-14
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Barry Jenner (January 14, 1941 – August 9, 2016) was an American actor best known for his television roles, including Captain Jerry Cooper on Dallas, Admiral William Ross on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Lt. Lieu Murtaugh on Family Matters. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an only child to a factory worker father and part-time waitress mother, he studied political science and American history at West Chester University before moving to New York City to pursue acting, landing early soap opera parts on Somerset and Another World. Jenner's career spanned guest spots on Knots Landing, films like Looker, Popcorn, and Enough Said, theater productions, and commercials, while he also served 21 years as a reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. He was married to actress Susan Harney from 1980 until their divorce, then to Suzanne Hunt from 2001, with whom he had two sons, Ashley and Christian; he passed away from acute myeloid leukemia.

Known For & Full Filmography34 Titles

#1JAG

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Norman Delaporte

7.3 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureCrime

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.

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#2Dallas

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Dr. Jerry Kenderson

6.9 / 10
SoapDramaFamily

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.

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#3Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Admiral Ross

7.9 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.

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#4Falcon Crest

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Prosecuting Attorney Loomis

5.5 / 10
SoapDramaFamily

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

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#5Hart to Hart

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeMystery

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

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#6Knots Landing

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Jeff Cunningham

7.0 / 10
DramaSoap

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

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#7Matlock

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Mark Harris

7.1 / 10
DramaCrime

Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

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#8Matlock

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Donald March

7.1 / 10
DramaCrime

Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

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#9Highway to Heaven

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
FamilyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

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#10Simon & Simon

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
Drama

A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.

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#11Hunter

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Lieutenant Larson

7.1 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

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#12Family Matters

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Lt. Lieu Murtaugh

6.7 / 10
ComedyFamily

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

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#13Hotel

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Kramer

6.8 / 10
DramaSoap

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.

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#14St. Elsewhere

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Larry Sanders

5.7 / 10
Drama

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.

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#15Family Ties

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as David Campbell

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaFamily

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

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#16Walker, Texas Ranger

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Frank Swain

7.0 / 10
DramaWesternCrime

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.

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#17Silk Stalkings

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion among the ultra-rich of Palm Beach, Florida.

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#18Remington Steele

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Edward Lawton / Eddie Lucas

7.1 / 10
DramaFamilyComedy

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

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#19Fame

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Drama

An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California, and in all seasons but the third, several exterior scenes were shot on location in New York City. The popularity of the series, particularly in the UK, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, very few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. A number of the cast members were seen again briefly in Bring Back...Fame, a reunion special made for British television in 2008.

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#20Mr. Belvedere

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a housekeeper with an American family headed by George Owens.

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#21V

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Visitor Bridge Technician

7.1 / 10
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.

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#22The Hogan Family

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
ComedyFamily

The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar Television. The show was originally titled Valerie and starred Valerie Harper as a mother trying to juggle her career with raising her three sons by her often-absent airline-pilot husband. Harper was written out of the series after the second season because of a dispute with the show's producers. Sandy Duncan joined the cast as the boys' aunt, who moved in and became their surrogate mom. During the show's third season, the series was known as Valerie's Family: The Hogans, then simply as The Hogan Family.

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#23Starman

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpenter's 1984 film. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987. The series was an adaptation and sequel to a movie of the same name produced in 1984.

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#24Mike Hammer, Private Eye

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
MysteryDramaCrime

Detective Mike Hammer uses his savvy grit against deceptive enemies in Southern California.

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#25Trauma Center

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#26Another World

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Soap

Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.

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#27Enough Said

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m as Crying Guy

6.7 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne...

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#28Good Morning, Miss Bliss

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Brian

7.1 / 10
ComedyKids

A middle school teacher keeps her personal and professional lives in balance as she helps her students.

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#29The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Ben Zimmerman

6.8 / 10
TV MovieThriller

This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.

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#30Popcorn

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Lt. Bradley

5.8 / 10
ComedyHorror

While holding a horror film festival, a group of students are stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader.

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#31Air Rage

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Pilot

5.5 / 10
Action

A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the hostages dead and decide to get payback by massacring the village. Upon their return home to the US, they must face the consequences.

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#32The Boost

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Billy

5.6 / 10
DramaRomance

Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".

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#33Fly Away Home

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Sgt. Downs

6.0 / 10
DramaTV MovieWar

Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.

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#34The Caretaker

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Rawdilly

4.5 / 10
ThrillerHorror

A young woman returns home to care for her gravely ill grandmother, only to begin sleepwalking and envisioning spirits.

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