Barry Corbin

Age: 69
Height: 5' 11"

Birth Place: Lamesa, Texas, USA
Born: Oct. 16th, 1940

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Barry Corbin's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
One Tree Hill	Coach White…
Northern Exposure	Maurice J. …
The Thorn Birds	Pete
Chicken Soup for the Soul	Doctor
Boone	Merit Sawyer
Spies	Thomas Brad…
The Famous Teddy Z	Zed Westhymer
Washingtoon	Senator Bun…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Barry's full given name is Leonard Barrie Corbin, and he was born on October 16, 1940, to Kilmer Blain Corbin, an attorney, and Alma Corbin, an elementary school teacher in Lamesa, Texas. Barry has a daughter named Shannon Ross, with whom he shares his 15-acre ranch in Fort Worth, Texas, when he isn't working. He says that he rides horses there every chance he gets.

TRIVIA:

Served in the USMC.
Is father of Shannon (b. 1965), Bernard (b. 1970), Jim (b. 1979) and Chris (b. 1982).
Appeared in both of the famous mechanical bull movies of 1980: _Urban Cowboy (1980)_ (qv) and _Stir Crazy (1980)_ (qv).
His family originally came from Virginia where they were farmers. Eventually the family wound up in Texas. The eldest of three children, his father, Kilmer Blaine Corbin, was a lawyer, judge and school principal. He was also the youngest State Senator at the time he entered the Senate at age 26. He served two terms before being beaten. Mother Alma was an elementary school teacher.
A daughter that he didn't know he had, found him in 1991.
At 21, Barry left his Texas university to join the Marine Corps and spent about two years at Camp Pendleton in California, training South Vietnamese officers. He remained in the Marine Corps Reserve, rejoining the 40th Rifle Company in Lubbock, Texas, as an assistant Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) man. He was discharged in August 1963.
Played General Carville in the Red Alert and Red Alert 2 computer games.
Father of 'Christopher Corbin' (qv).