About Patrick Barr

Patrick David Barr (13 February 1908 – 29 August 1985) was a British actor. Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficient authority figures and \"reliable friend\" types. Barr served as an ambulance driver in Africa during the Second World War, refusing to carry a weapon as he was a conscientious objector. It was in Africa where he met his wife Anne \"Jean\" Williams, marrying her after ten days; it would have been sooner, but they had to get permission from London. They stayed together ever afterwards. In 1946 he picked up where he left off, and in the early 1950s he began working in British television, attaining popularity that had undeservedly eluded him while playing supporting parts in such films as The Frightened Lady (1941) and The Blue Lagoon (1949). This latter-day fame