Biography
Barry Bostwick is an American actor best remembered for his roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and in the sitcom Spin City. Bostwick has also had great success in musical theatre, winning a Tony Award for his part in The Robber Bridegroom.
Age
He is 79 years old as of 24 February 2024. He was born in 1945 in San Mateo, California, United States. His real name is Barry Knapp Bostwick.
Family – Education
He is the son of Elizabeth “Betty” (née Defendorf), a housewife, and Henry “Bud” Bostwick, an urban planner and actor. His sole sibling, older brother Henry “Pete” Bostwick, died in an automobile accident on July 20, 1973, when he was 32.In 1967, he attended San Diego’s United States International University and majored in acting. He began his career on the Hillbarn Theatre stage, which is currently located in Foster City, and then worked as a circus performer. He also completed NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1968.
Barry Bostwick Wife – Children
Bostwick married Stacey Nelkin in 1987, and the couple separated in 1991. He married his second wife, Sherri Ellen Jensen, in 1993, and they have two children: Brian Bostwick, a son, and Chelsea, a daughter.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Illness
Bostwick was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and underwent prostate removal in July of the same year. In 2004, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center honored him with the Gilda Radner Courage Award.
Career
Bostwick was an individual from First Public Nothing, who delivered one collection, 1970’s “Assuming You Stand by and Hold My Hand, You Will Hear Literally nothing.” They are portrayed on the collection as “A stone venue community comprised of artists, entertainers, artists, vocalists, fashioners, scholars, writers, and companions that began a long, quite some time ago as a lost clan in California and has wound up as a dramatic performing organization in New York City.”
In 1970, Bostwick was an individual from a pop band called The Klowns, collected and advanced by Ringling Brothers. what’s more, Barnum and Bailey Bazaar, whose individuals performed wearing adapted jokester cosmetics and outfits. Their only collection, delivered in 1970, was created by Jeff Barry, and produced a minor Board hit single, “Woman Love.”
Bostwick supplanted C.C. Courtney in the melodic Salvation. His next stage appearance was in the 1971 stone show Soon, which shut after three exhibitions. In 1972, Bostwick started the job of terrible kid Danny Zuko in the stage creation of Oil, procuring a Tony Grant selection for his exhibition. This was trailed by a voice job as Terr in the English-named rendition of Fabulous Planet in 1973. He later featured with Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon in The Rough Loathsomeness Picture Show (1975), depicting Brad Majors. He likewise won a Tony Grant for his exhibition in the 1977 melodic The Looter Husband. In 1981, Bostwick featured in the television series transformation of the 1978 film Unfairness, with his job displayed after Chevy Pursue’s and co-star Deborah Raffin in Goldie Hawn’s part. The next year, he featured in Megaforce. Bostwick featured, alongside Carl Weintraub, as Rick Armstrong in the fleeting ABC sitcom Fathers during the 1986-87 season. From 1996 to 2002, Bostwick depicted Randall Winston, the chairman of New York City in the sitcom Twist City inverse Michael J. Fox and his replacement, Charlie Sheen. In 2006, Bostwick supplanted Peter Scolari as Mr. Tyler, the dad of Amanda Bynes’ and Jennie Garth’s lead characters, on What I Like About You.
Bostwick played a common part somewhere in the range of 2004 and 2007 on Regulation and Request: Exceptional Casualties Unit. He has likewise played driving parts in different smaller than usual series, including George Washington, its continuation George Washington II: The Manufacturing of a Country, Qualms, A Lady of Substance, War and Recognition, and Till We Meet Once more.
Bostwick filled in as host of the broadly broadcast yearly State house Fourth festival on the Public Shopping center in Washington, D.C. for quite a long time. Bostwick was likewise found in a Pepsi Curve business. In the Virus Case episode “Animals of the Evening,” in which he is the fundamental suspect, the subject of the episode spins around The Rough Repulsiveness Picture Show, which is among his most popular exhibitions to date.
In 2003, Bostwick showed up on Scours as a patient determined to have prostate malignant growth, a sickness Bostwick had, all things considered. In 2008, he showed up in an episode of television series Monstrous Betty as a lawyer to the Meade family. In 2007, Bostwick acquired a common job, as Granddad Clyde Flynn on the enlivened TV series, Phineas and Ferb. Bostwick is additionally the representative for Ideal Voice. In June 2009, he played Father Jimmy, the incapable exorcist in the autonomous awfulness satire The Selling, composed by Gabriel Diani and coordinated by Emily Lou.
Other TV credits remember visitor appearances for Charlie’s Holy messengers, Hawaii Five-O, The Brilliant Castle, Beauty Enduring an onslaught, and Las Vegas. Bostwick should show up on the third time of Private Practice as “the Chief,” a dad of the Addison Montgomery character, however needed to leave because of a planning struggle. In 2011, Bostwick depicted a humble community sheriff in the John Landis-delivered thrill ride Some Person Who Kills Individuals. In October 2010, Bostwick momentarily showed up in the Rough Repulsiveness themed Merriment episode.
From 2010 to 2014, Bostwick played a repetitive part as Roger Honest on the sitcom Cougar Town which featured Courteney Cox. In season three of the show, we discover that Bostwick’s personality has become city chairman of the town the satire is set in, Bay Asylum. In 2015, he depicted Collin Winthrop, father of the Gig Harbor Executioner, in the season-finishing CSI: Crime location Examination episode “The Final plan.” He has likewise had a re-visitation of clique melodic thrillers as Terrance Zdunich’s Alleluia! Satan’s Fair, which is a continuation of the 2012 short film Satan’s Festival, of which he was not beforehand a cast part, being a novice to the establishment. He featured in Darren Lynn Bousman’s section of the compilation film Stories of Halloween, which was his subsequent time acting under Bousman after Alleluia! Satan’s Festival, and showed up in the parody thriller Helen Keller versus Nightwolves. In 2020, Bostwick leader created and featured in the short film Molly Burglar as Ron Cook, which won a Group of people Grant at the 2020 Austin Film Celebration and was an authority determination at the 2021 Tribeca Film Celebration.
Movies
♦ 2011 – The Selling
♦ 2012 – Some Guy Who Kills People
♦ 2013 – Finding Joy
♦ 2015 – Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival
♦ 2016 – The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave
♦ 2017 – A Mermaid’s Tale
♦ 2018 – Incredibles 2
♦ 2019 – Grand-Daddy Day Care
♦ 2020 – American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules
♦ 2020 – Molly Robber
♦ 2021 – Single All the Way
♦ 2022 – In Search of Tomorrow
♦ 2023 – Outlaw Johnny Black
TV Shows
♦ 2015 – The Haunted Hathaways
♦ 2015 – Gigi Does It
♦ 2016 – American Dad!
♦ 2016 – Childrens Hospital
♦ 2016–2017 – Still the King
♦ 2016–2018 – Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce
♦ 2017 – The Great Indoors
♦ 2017–2018 – Milo Murphy’s Law
♦ 2017 – American Housewife
♦ 2017 – Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again
♦ 2017 – Tangled: The Series
♦ 2017 – Christmas in Mississippi
♦ 2018 – Will & Grace
♦ 2018 – Signed, Sealed, Delivered: To the Altar
♦ 2019 – Christmas in Louisiana
♦ 2019 – The Goldbergs
♦ 2021 – Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.