Barry Coe Biography, Age, Net Worth, Wife, Children, Cause of Death and 20th Century Fox.

Barry Coe Biography

Barry Coe is an American actor who appeared in film and on television from 1956-1978. Many of his motion pictures parts were minor, but he co-starred in one series, Follow the Sun, which aired on ABC during the 1961-1962 season, and also played the recognizable “Mr. Goodwrench” on TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s.

Barry Coe Age

Barry was born on November 26, 1934. He is aged 84 years as of 2018.

Barry Coe Family

He was born as Barry Clark Heacock, his name was changed to Joseph Spalding Coe when his mother Jean Elizabeth Shea married Joseph Spalding Coe Sr. in 1940 in Los Angeles. Barry’s father Francis Elmer “Frank” Heacock, a writer and publicist for Warner Brothers, was killed in an auto accident in North Hollywood, CA, April 5, 1940.

Barry Coe Education

He attended the University of Southern California and was discovered by a talent scout during a trip with his fraternity to Palm Springs in the mid-1950s. In addition, Barry was signed under contract for 20th Century Fox as an actor.

Barry Coe  Wife and Children

He is married to the former Jorunn Kristiansen, who was a Norwegian beauty queen in the 1950s and now a painter (born in 1940). Their son is William Shea Coe (born in 1966). During the 1980s, his daughter attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He had a side business in nutritional supplements Adventures in Nutrition; labels for the containers were printed by Joe Faust.

Not to mention, Barry lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California for several years.

Barry Coe Net Worth

Moreover, Barry has a net worth of 75 million dollars got from his career earnings.

Barry Coe Cause of DeIs Barry Coe Still Alive?

Coe Died from the bone marrow disease myelodysplastic syndrome. It was announced by his family. He died July 16 in Palm Desert, CA. He was 84. A resident of Sun Valley, ID, in later life, Coe began his Hollywood career with small, uncredited roles in such mid-1950s fare. Coe is survived by his wife of 60 years, Jorunn Kristiansen Coe; three children and their spouses; and 10 grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation in his name to Habitat for Humanity.

Barry Coe 20th Century Fox

His early roles included appearances in House of Bamboo of 1955, How to Be Very, Very Popular of 1955, On the Threshold of Space of 1956, and D-Day the Sixth of June of 1956. He guest-starred in an episode of Cheyenne, “The Last Train West” and had a small role in Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender of 1956. Barry was in adaptations of The Late George Apley and ‘Deep Water’ for The 20th Century-Fox Hour.

His first really notable role was playing the lustful Rodney Harrington in the original Peyton Place in 1957 film, based on the bestselling Grace Metalious 1956 novel of the same name. Barry followed it with a supporting part in an independent Western, Thundering Jets of 1958, then went back to Fox for The Bravados of 1958 with Gregory Peck, and A Private’s Affair of 1959, a service musical.

Barry played Carroll Baker’s more age-appropriate boyfriend in But Not for Me at Paramount. He had good support roles in One Foot in Hell of 1960 with Alan Ladd and The Wizard of Baghdad of 1961. Coe in 1960, secured a Golden Globe award for the Most Promising Newcomer Male, along with James Shigeta, Troy Donahue, and George Hamilton.

Follow the Sun
Coe and Brett Halsey in 1961, played magazine writers Paul Templin and Ben Gregory, respectively, with Gary Lockwood as their researcher, Eric Jason on the ABC television network series Follow the Sun from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962. That program was set in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the writers often ventured into private detective work.

Other than some memorable episodes, Follow the Sun was canceled after twenty-nine segments. Upon the end of Follow the Sun folded, Barry Coe appeared in a support role in Fox’s The 300 Spartans of 1962 then guest-starred in 1962 on the first episode of the fourth season of NBC’s Western series Bonanza. Barry portrayed ranch hand Clay Stafford, who reveals himself to be the “fifth” Cartwright, a half brother to Little Joe (Michael Landon) via their mother Marie.

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Although stepfather Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and Joe take Clay at his word, the other Cartwright brothers, Hoss (Dan Blocker) and Adam (Pernell Roberts) are skeptical and intend to investigate Clay’s claim. The episode called “The First Born” could have introduced Coe as a new cast member. Entertainment writer Hal Ericson reported that friction (i.e. job security) on the set caused Bonanza producers to stick with the three brothers.

He was given the lead in a low budget independent film, A Letter to Nancy of 1965. Barry guest-starred on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and appeared as an unnamed communications aide in Fantastic Voyage of 1966 and as Walt Kilby in The Cat of 1966. He had a semiregular role on Bracken’s World and could be seen in The Seven Minutes of 1971 and One Minute Before Death of 1973.

Barry Coe Late Career

Coe starred as Fred Saunders in Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls in 1973 and as an unnamed reporter in Gregory Peck’s MacArthur in 1977. Coe’s last film role was as diving instructor Tom Andrews in Jaws 2 in 1978. Barry had a brief stint as Joel Stratton in the ABC soap opera General Hospital in 1974. There were other television appearances too, including CBS’s Mission: Impossible starring Peter Graves, and The Moneychangers.

From the late 1970s into the early 1980s, Coe was “Mr. Goodwrench” in television advertising for a chain of national auto parts stores under General Motors.