
Birthday:
12-08-1908
Deathday:
07-02-1954 (45 years)
Birthplace:
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
Phyllis Barry (born Gertrude Phyllis Hillyard, 7 December 1908 – 1 July 1954) was an English film actress. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Seth Henry and Bertha (née Giles) Hillyard, Barry appeared in over 40 films between 1925 and 1947.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Act like Barmaid
event1937 star_border 6.7
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Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
Act like Mrs. Tremaine (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4.7
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A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Reckless Decision
Act like Dorothy
event1933 star_border 4.5
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The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Act like Hortense
event1937 star_border 6.1
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Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
What! No Beer?
Act like Hortense
event1933 star_border 5.4
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When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Love Past Thirty
Act like Beth Ramsden
event1934
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When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
The Case of the Black Parrot
Act like Julia
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
Three Little Sew and Sews
Act like Spy
event1939 star_border 6.4
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The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Good-bye Love
Act like Dorothy Blaine
event1933 star_border 5.5
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A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
The Moonstone
Act like Ann Verinder
event1934 star_border 4.4
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A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
Cynara
Act like Doris Emily Lea
event1932 star_border 4.8
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A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
Diplomaniacs
Act like Fifi
event1933 star_border 7
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Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Act like Actress (uncredited)
event1939
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Long Lost Father
Act like Party Guest
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
The Invisible Menace
Act like Aline Dolman
event1938 star_border 4.1
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Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Shadows on the Stairs
Act like Lucy Timson
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Trade Winds
Act like Ruth (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.3
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After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Damaged Goods
Act like Margie
event1937 star_border 3.4
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A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.
We Are Not Alone
Act like First Chorus Girl
event1939 star_border 6.1
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A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Kid Nightingale
Act like First Girl with Mrs. Reynolds (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Where Sinners Meet
Act like The Brunette Chambermaid
event1934 star_border 2.5
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A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.
Secrets of a Model
Act like Sally Adams
event1940 star_border 6
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Pretty girl in need of money for her dying mom's operation poses for a sculpture.
Forbidden Heaven
Act like Sybil Radford, Politician's Daughter
event1935
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Charles Farrell stars as a British working stiff named Niba, who hopes one day to attain a Parliamentary seat. Niba's life is permanently altered when he rescues forlorn American girl Ann (Charlotte Henry). Though forced to give up his political dreams, Niba contentedly sets up house with Ann, eventually falling in love with her.
The Witness Vanishes
Act like Miss Carson (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.7
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In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
To Mary - with Love
Act like Guest
event1936 star_border 4.5
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Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Second Girl at Estate Dance (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.5
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
I Was an Adventuress
Act like Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
Gentleman from Dixie
Act like Secretary
event1941 star_border 6
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A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
Bonnie Scotland
Act like Gossip (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
The Mysterious Doctor
Act like Ruby
event1943 star_border 5.6
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The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Unfinished Business
Act like Sheila
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
Hollywood Premiere
event1933
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Two strip Technicolor short film. While the film is considered lost, the Library of Congress has acquired a musical sequence from the film.
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Act like Madame Irene
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Frenchman's Creek
Act like Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5
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An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
One Rainy Afternoon
Act like Felice
event1936 star_border 4.6
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Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Kitty
Act like Guest (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
The Nightshirt Bandit
Act like Mrs. Chase
event1938
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A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.
Camille
event1936 star_border 7
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Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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