Tom Barry (screenwriter)

Thomas Barry was born, Hal Donahue ( born July 31, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, † November 7, 1931 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter who was nominated for the Academy Awards in April 1930 for two Oscars.

Life

Barry began in 1912 as a screenwriter in the production of silent films and was first involved in The Kid and the Sleuth by Thomas H. Ince at making a movie, and starred in this film, the role of "Red Gallagher ". In the following almost 20 years he participated in about a dozen films. He had his greatest success at the Academy Awards ceremony in April 1930 when he was the same nominated with two films nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay and indeed the one for the Western In Old Arizona ( 1928) by Irving Cummings, on the other hand for the film Drama The Valiant (1929 ) by William K. Howard.

The resulting 1938 film My Bill by John Farrow was based on his play Courage.