Born in
Snyder Texas February 13, 1963 Barry Tubb is a 1981 graduate of Snyder High
School. He is a television and film actor, director, writer and
World
Champion Junior Bull Rider.
After High
School, Tubb began stage training in San Francisco. He moved to
Hollywood in the mid '80s to begin his screen and television-acting
career. He earned a regular role on the short-lived
baseball ensemble series Bay City Blues and later a recurring role
as a rookie police officer on Hill Street Blues. He played a shy
homosexual boy who comes out to his parents in Consenting Adult, and
a wealthy corporate upstart involved in murder in Billionaire Boys
Club. Barry's most popular television role was that of Jasper Fant
in the epic Westerns Lonesome Dove and its sequel Return
to Lonesome Dove in 1993, which were partly set in his native
Texas.
Moving on to film, Barry accepted supporting roles in Mask, The
Legend of Billie Jean, and as Wolfman in Top Gun. In 1988, he
co-starred with Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave in the Broadway
production of Sweet Sue, in which he appeared nude, and which had a
run of 164 performances. The following year, he appeared in the
drama Warm Summer Rain opposite Kelly Lynch. Barry turned to
independent filming and other interests outside of Hollywood.
In 2002, Tubb directed the family film Grand Champion about the
exploits a young boy who raises a prize-winning steer and struggles
to save it from the slaughterhouse. He shot the film in his own
hometown of Snyder, Texas.
Tubb last
appeared in film as Jeb Crawford in the Civil War Western film
Deliverance Creek on the Lifetime Network.
Tubb has participated in gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture
Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and
Celebration each September in Lubbock, Texas.
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