Barry Stanton

Barry Stanton (born 17 February 1940) is a British stage, film and television actor.

Biography Growing up in Accrington, Stanton discovered he was a good dancer at the age of seven when he played an elf in a school play. He hoped to become a ballet dancer and for nine years studied classical ballet at the Carlotta Ballet School/Blackburn School of Dancing, winning a scholarship to Sadler's Wells Theatre. Unfortunately, while on holiday in France at the age of 15 to watch the Tour de France (he was a keen club cyclist), he was involved in a cycle accident where he caught his foot in a bicycle wheel, resulting in a permanently damaged ankle, ending any hopes of a dancing career.

Stanton then tried chemical engineering but realised this was not the job for him alongside Julie Christie and James Bolam. During this time, Stanton worked part-time as a washer-up at a nearby restaurant at nights and various roles in The Wars of the Roses with the English Shakespeare Company in 1988 in addition to appearances in film and television.

Selected filmography Film Robbery (1967) King Lear (1971) Demons of the Mind (1972) Hamlet (1977) Sweeney 2 (1977) Lionheart (1987) King of the Wind (1990) Robin Hood (1991) Shanghai Knights (2003)

Television The Plane Makers (1963) Front Page Story (1965) The Baron (1966) The Likely Lads (1966) Witch Hunt (1967) No Hiding Place (1967) George and the Dragon (1968) Spy Trap (1972) Budgie (1972) The Sweeney (1975) Upstairs, Downstairs (1975) The New Avengers (1977) Fallen Hero (1978-1979) Turtle's Progress (1979-1980) Hammer House of Horror (1980) The Search for Alexander the Great (1981) Something in Disguise (1982) Minder (1982) Now and Then (1983) Doctor Who (1984) Tucker's Luck (1984) The Young Ones (1984) Mann's Best Friends (1985) Yes, Prime Minister (1986) Ain't Misbehavin' (1995) Dalziel and Pascoe (1998) The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells (2001)