T. Roy Barnes

Acting

T. Roy Barnes

Born 1880-08-11 Lincolnshire, England, UK 41 films

Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies. Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He ret…

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Filmography

41 films
Village Tale poster

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love ve…

Village Tale

★ 7.3 1935

Carnival poster

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leave…

Carnival

★ 8.0 1935

It's a Gift poster

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the gro…

It's a Gift

★ 6.3 1934

Aloha poster

In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander…

Aloha

★ 8.0 1931

Wide Open poster

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.

Wide Open

★ 5.6 1930