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Barry Corbin
Known for: ActingLeonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon), often as a sheriff, military leader, or other authority figure.
Filmography 90
Northern Exposure
as Maurice Minnifield 
Anger Management
+2
as Ed 
No Country for Old Men
+9
as Ellis 
WarGames
+3
as General Beringer 
The Hot Spot
as Sheriff 
The Big Easy
as C.D. LeBlanc 
Planes: Fire & Rescue
+3
as Ol' Jammer (voice) 
Lonesome Dove
as Roscoe Brown 
The Thorn Birds
as Pete 
In the Valley of Elah
+2
as Arnold Bickman 
Ben 10: Alien Swarm
as Grandpa Max Tennyson 
Ghost Dad
as Mr. Emery Collins 
Career Opportunities
+2
as Officer Don 
The Homesman
+4
as Buster Shaver 
Conagher
as Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver 
Critters 2
+2
as Harv 
Mountain Top
as Sam Miller 
Trading Paint
+2
as Sheriff Buck Taylor 
Crossfire Trail
as Sheriff Walter Moncrief 
Stir Crazy
+3
as Warden Walter Beatty 
Solo
+1
as General Clyde Haynes 
Nothing in Common
+2
as Andrew Woolridge 
Any Which Way You Can
+2
as Fat Zack 
Dead & Buried
+3
as Phil 
Who's Harry Crumb?
+1
as P.J. Downing 
Honkytonk Man
+2
as Arnspriger 
Urban Cowboy
+5
as Uncle Bob 
My Science Project
as Lew Harlan 
The Grand
as Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro 
Monte Walsh
as Bob the Storekeeper 
The Man Who Loved Women
as Roy Carr 
Shadow on the Mesa
as Jake Rawlins 
Eminence Hill
+3
as Noah 
Permanent Record
+1
as Jim Sinclair 
Brimming with Love
as Walter 
Universal Squadrons
as Deakin 
All Saints
+2
as Forrest 
Curdled
as Lodger 
River's End
as Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins 
Valley of the Sun
as Gene Taggart 
Beer for My Horses
as Buck Baker 
That Evening Sun
as Thurl Chessor 
The Ratings Game
as Colonel 
New Life
+4
as Oscar 
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as B. R. Abernathy 
Funny Thing About Love
+4
as Grandpa Joe 
It Takes Two
as George Lawrence 
Christmas in the Smokies
as Wade Haygood 
Wyvern
as Haas 
Bloodworth
+3
as Itchy 
Ghoul
as Grandfather 
The People Across the Lake
as Malcolm Bryce 
The Jesse Owens Story
as Judge 
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
as Judge Smith 
Held Up
+3
as Pembry 
This Is Where We Live
as Bode Warden 
Stranger on My Land
as Gil 
El Tonto Por Cristo
as Terry Don 
Not Since You
+7
as Uncle Dennis 
Magic Max
as Grismer 
Sealed with a Kiss
as Wink 'Pop' Blake 
Lake City
as George 
The Defiant Ones
as Floyd Carpenter 
The Journeyman
+4
as Charlie Ledbetter 
The Hired Heart
as Mike Hadley 
The Margarita Man
as Chief Doyle 
Off the Mark
as Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa 
An American in Texas
+2
as Larry Korchinsky 
The Chase
as Wallis 
Bitter Harvest
as Dr. Agajanian 
Clover Bend
as Cotton Clayton 
Deadly Family Secrets
as Mr. Potter 
The Valley
as Gary 
The Killing of Randy Webster
as Nick Hanson 
Born Wild
as Ray Jennings 
Farmer of the Year
as Hap 
Sedona
+3
as Les 
Hidden Places
as Sheriff 
Beyond the Farthest Star
as Chief Burns 
No One Can Hear You
as Sheriff Joe Webster 
Ay Lav Yu Tuu
as Danny Brown 
Last Man Club
+1
as Pete Williams 
Dawn of the Crescent Moon
+1
as Cyrus 
Hope Ranch
as Shorty 
Prime Suspect
as Bob Austin 
Yesterday's Dreams
as Pastor