Barry Quin

Barry Quin (born 1949) credited also as Barry Quinn, is a British-Australian actor and briefly producer who has appeared on stage and television and film, on the small screen he has featured in numerous TV series and mini-series, but he is best known for his role as an original cast member of TV series Prisoner playing Dr. Greg Miller. He was married to his Prisoner co-star Peta Toppano during the early 1980s, but they divorced after ten years; he has since remarried.

Barry Quin
Born
Barry Quin

1949 (age 7172)
England
OccupationActor
Years active1972–89; 1992–present
Spouse(s)
(m. 1979; div. 1989)

Biography

A graduate of the Central Drama School in London, Quin was primarily a stage actor in his early career. After a small role in the British television series Just William in 1977, he had bit parts on UK sitcom Two's Company and US drama series Charlie's Angels.

He was touring Australia as part of a stage production of Othello when he met his future wife Peta Toppano. While auditioning for Prisoner, Toppano suggested Quin for the role of Greg Miller when she learned the producer was looking for an actor to play a young prison doctor. Both their characters were introduced with the storyline of the two having had a prior relationship as old college sweethearts. Shortly after the series debuted, they were married in April 1979.[1] The two remained on the series until the end of the 1979 season, when they were written out for their characters too, to be married.

In 1980, he would star in the television miniseries Lucinda Brayford co-starring Wendy Hughes and Sam Neill and, the following year, in Sara Dane. He appeared in a number of television series including M.P.S.I.B. and Carson's Law. Although having minor roles in I Can't Get Started and Departure, he had moderate success as Lt. Zachariah Hicks in the 1987 television miniseries Captain James Cook followed by Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1987) and Cappuccino (1989) in which he was also credited as an associate producer.

After Darlings of the Gods (1989), Quin took a leave of absence from acting coinciding with his divorce from Peta Toppano. He returned to acting three years later with a guest appearance on Police Rescue and Mission Top Secret. Before long, he began playing recurring characters on Big Sky and Mirror, Mirror II. He also made guest appearances on Murder Call, Water Rats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way and All Saints.

In April 2002, he also returned to the stage performing as Gordon in David Williamson's Soulmates at the Sydney Opera House. After a cameo appearance as a news anchorman in Superman Returns (2006), Quin made several appearances as Geoff Olivetti in Home and Away between 2006 and 2009.

Barry also played the character Professor Sorvad in the 2011 Australian comedy movie Dealing with Destiny.

He also played 'Phil' in two episodes of the YouTube web series The Horizon in 2013.[2]

Filmography

Production Year Role
Kate (TV series)1972Tony Graham (9 episodes)
Harriet's Back in Town (TV series)1973Tarquin Melville
Crime of Passion (TV series)1973Marcel Verenne
Ten from the Twenties (TV series)1975Hugh Garthorne
Just William (TV series)1977Ward Hadlow
Jubilee (TV series)1977Francis Considine
No Appointment Necessary1977Nicholas Hodgekiss
Two's Company (TV series)1978Greg
Charlie's Angels (TV series)1978Ed Jarvis
Salvage 1 (TV series)1979Engineer
Skyways (TV series)1979Jeremy Drake
Prisoner (TV series)1979-1980Dr. Greg Miller
Lucinda Brayford (TV mini-series)1980Hugo Brayford
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (TV mini-series)1981Messenger
Sara Dane (TV mini-series)1982Richard Barwell
Carson's Law (TV series)1983
M.P.S.I.B (TV series)1982-1983S.C. Gary Manore
I Can't Get Started1985John
Departure (Film)1986Jack
Australians (TV series)1988Private Kingsley
Captain James Cook (TV mini-series)1988Lt. Hicks
Emma: Queen of the High Sea's1988The Hon. W.H. Lyttelton
Darlings of the God ((TV movie)1989Dan Cunningham
Cappuccino (film)1989Larry
Police Rescue (TV series)1992Mr. Scanlon
Corrupt Justice (TV movie)1993Julian Roberts
G.P. (TV series)1995David Harding
Mirror, Mirror (TV series)1995Gervaise de Luttrelle
Mission Top Secret (TV series)1995Thornton
Big Sky (TV series)1997Simon Kroger
Murder Call (TV series)1998Dr. Charles Stark
Water Rats (TV series)1997-2001Raffe Johanssen (1997) - David Faraday (2001)
Ihaka: Blunt Instrument (TV movie2001Andrew
The Lost World (TV series)2002Lionel Huxley
Subterano2003
Jessica (TV movie)2004McDonald
The Secret Life off Us (TV series)2005Hunter Davies
Love my Way (TV series)2006Derek
Superman Returns2006News Anchor #5
Disgrace2008Desmond Swarts
All Saints (TV series)2002-2009Dr. Simon Byrne - Andys Father
Home and Away (TV series)2000-2009Dr Phillip Grigg (as Barry Quinn - Dr. Geoff Olivetti
The Horizon (TV series)2009Phil
Rake (TV series)2010Dalton
Dealing with Destiny2011Professor Sovad
Battle Ground2013Dr. Bennett
John Doe: Vigilante2014Dr Keith Simms
Dance Academy: The Movie2017Competition Judge
2.222017Samuel Keifer
A Place to Call Home (TV series)2017Neil O'Sullivan
Skinford: Chapter Two2018The Tailor

References

  1. Kingsley, Hillary (January 2000). "Prisoner Press Clippings – 'Prisoner'". Wentworth Web: an Unofficial Prisoner Cell Block H website. Archived from the original on 1 October 2005.
  2. "Two Sleeps Until The Horizon". www.dnamagazine.com.au. 30 October 2013. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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