A former stage actor who spent years in vaudeville, stock, and musical comedy, Joseph J. Barry entered films in the very early 1910s, appearing as an actor for such firms as Nestor, 101 Bison, and Universal prior to becoming a director with Kalem and Metro. Specializing in outdoor melodrama, Barry helmed several potboilers for Jack London Pictures and directed all of John Lowell's New York-lensed "Northwest" melodramas, two of which, When Big Dan Rides (1919) and The Heart of Big Dan, have survived. Barry's screen career did not extend into the 1920s.
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