Patricia Barry obit

Patricia Barry, Stalwart of Daytime Soap Operas, Dies at 93

She was not on the list.

She was Bill Hayes' wife on 'Days of Our Lives,' ran an international drug cartel on 'All My Children' and played the scheming Miss Sally on 'Guiding Light.'

Patricia Barry, the veteran actress of stage and screen who was a standout on such soap operas as Days of Our Lives, All My Children and Guiding Light, has died. She was 93.

Barry, one of the earliest members of Women in Film and a former president of the nonprofit advocacy organization, died peacefully Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her publicist announced.

In the movies, Barry starred in Send Me No Flowers as the soon-to-be divorced neighbor whom Doris Day suspects is having an affair with her husband Rock Hudson, and she played Glenn Ford's former mistress in Delbert Mann's Dear Heart. Both films were released in 1964.

Also that year, Barry appeared in the crime drama Kitten With a Whip (1964), starring Ann-Margret, and starred as Jack Klugman's spendthrift wife on the short-lived NBC sitcom Harris Against the World.

On NBC's Days of Our Lives, Barry portrayed Addie Horton Williams, who was married to the character played by Bill Hayes, from 1971-74. She then had a rather interesting turn as Peg English — who raised her adopted daughter Brooke (Julia Barr) while running an international drug cartel under the alias The Cobra — on ABC's All My Children from 1980-81.

On CBS' Guiding Light from 1984-87, Barry sparkled as the conniving Southern belle "Miss Sally" Gleason, then played upper-crust matriarch Isabelle Alden on the ABC soap Loving in the '90s.

Patricia White was born Nov. 16, 1922, in Davenport, Iowa. Her father was a doctor who cared for rural families, and her mother was the youngest of 14 children. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., where she trained with Maude Adams — who played Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905 — and then studied under Sanford Meisner in New York.

Her first professional role came in a 1944 production of Laughing Water, by Henry and Phoebe Ephron (the parents of Nora and Delia), and she soon appeared on Broadway in Calico Wedding. Later, she was Steve Allen's co-star in The Pink Elephant.

She won a Rita Hayworth look-alike contest, was signed by Warner Bros. and made her big-screen debut as a showgirl in Her Kind of Man (1946). She went on to appear in such films as The Beast With Five Fingers (1946); Joan Crawford's Humoresque (1946); The Man I Love (1947) with Robert Alda and Ida Lupino; The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948); Gene Autry's Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949); The Tattooed Stranger (1950); and First Love (1954).

She co-starred with William Frawley, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and other New York Yankees in the spring-training-set Safe at Home! (1962).

Barry starred in two episodes of The Twilight Zone and showed up on such series as Perry Mason, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, Route 66, My Three Sons, Three's Company, Dallas, Murder, She Wrote and PBS' Ghostwriter, where she played a movie star.

An astute businesswoman, Barry leased fully furnished homes to visiting stars, directors and other dignitaries in Los Angeles and New York. Her tenants included Peter Ustinov, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Angela Lansbury, Paula Prentiss & Richard Benjamin, Joshua Logan, Don Rickles and Peter Gallagher. George Roy Hill was living in her house on Beverly Drive when he directed his Oscar-winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

Barry, who had a fondness for Yorkshire Terriers, was the recipient of Women in Film's prestigious Founder's Award in 1999. In 2004, she starred in Martha Mitchell Speaks, a one-woman show in New York produced by Dorothea Petrie.

Her husband, Philip Barry Jr., who produced plays, films (The Mating Game) and telefilms for ABC, died in 1998. He was the son of playwright Philip Barry, and after her husband's death, she authorized all productions of Philip Barry plays, including stagings in London of High Society and The Philadelphia Story, starring Kevin Spacey.

Survivors include her daughters Miranda Barry, a former executive in charge of global Sesame Street productions, and Stephanie; son-in-law Mark; grandchildren Alixanne and Hailey; and godchildren Tracy and Stephen.

Memorial services are planned for early 2017 in Los Angeles and New York.

Film and television appearances

    1946: Her Kind of Man as Showgirl (uncredited)

    1946: Two Guys from Milwaukee as Nurse (uncredited)

    1946: Deception as Music Student (uncredited)

    1946: The Beast with Five Fingers as Clara (as Patricia White)

    1946: Humoresque as Fritzie - Bauer's Secretary (uncredited)

    1947: The Man I Love as Chorine (uncredited)

    1947: Cry Wolf as Angela (as Patricia White)

    1947: Variety Girl as Variety Girl (unaccredited)

    1947: When a Girl's Beautiful as Ellen Trennis (Credited as Patricia White)

    1947: Rose of Santa Rosa as Dolores de Garfias (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: The Wreck of the Hesperus as Deborah Allen (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: Trapped by Boston Blackie as Joan Howell (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: Flat Feat (Short) as Mary, Police Operator (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: Blazing Across the Pecos as Lola Carter (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: Singin' Spurs as Joan Dennis (Credited as Patricia White)

    1948: Go Chase Yourself (Short) as Co-Ed (Credited as Patricia White)

    1949: Slightly French as Hilda (uncredited)

    1949: Riders of the Whistling Pines as Helen Carter (Credited as Patricia White)

    1949: Manhattan Angel as Maggie Graham (Credited as Patricia White)

    1949: The Undercover Man as Muriel Gordon (Credited as Patricia White)

    1949: Kraft Theatre (TV Series)

    1950: The Tattooed Stranger as Mary Mahan (Credited as Patricia White)

    1950: The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV Series)

    1950: Robert Montgomery Presents (Credited as Patricia White)

    1952: Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)

    1952: Man Against Crime (TV Series)

    1954: The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series) as Polly

    1954: Suspense (TV Series)

    1954-1955: First Love (TV Series) as Laurie James

    1955: The Elgin Hour (TV Series) as Betty

    1955-1958: Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) as Deborah / Ethel Cascade

    1956-1957: Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series) as Grace Barre

    1956-1957: The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) as Grace Barre / Stewardess / Nina

    1957-1958: Matinee Theatre (TV Series) as Sally Collier

    1958: Playhouse 90 (TV Series) as Jordan Baker / Lucille

    1958-1959: Maverick (TV Series) as Jessamy Longacre / Kitty Stillman

    1958-1970: Gunsmoke (TV Series) as Kate Schiller / Laura Rand / Belle

    1959: The Third Man (TV Series) as Miss Page

    1959: 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) as Audrey King

    1959: Sugarfoot (TV Series) as Doreen Bradley

    1959: Yancy Derringer (TV Series) as Patricia Tappworth

    1959: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) as Ellie

    1959: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) as Claire Powers

    1959: True Story (TV Series) as Lorry

    1959: Laramie (TV Series) as Evie

    1959: Goodyear Theatre (TV Series) as Adie Walker

    1959: Startime (TV Series) as Miss Calhoun

    1959-1960: The Millionaire (TV Series) as Connie Norton Maxwell / Judy Butler

    1959-1960: The Rifleman (TV Series) as Adele Adams / Laurie Hadley

    1959-1962: General Electric Theater (TV Series) as Monica Wheeler / Geraldine Willoughby / Kathy / Sarah Wilson

    1960: Bronco (TV Series) as Amy Carter

    1960: Tales of Wells Fargo as Phyllis Randolph

    1960: Markham (TV Series) as Dr. Miriam Holloway

    1960: Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) as Aurora Farnum

    1960: Hong Kong (TV Series) as Maria

    1960-1961: Bachelor Father (TV Series) as Lisa Trent / Melissa Trent

    1960-1961: Outlaws (TV Series) as Laurie Palmer / Aimie Cutter

    1960-1962: My Three Sons (TV Series) as Pamela MacLish - Second Time Around - Chip Off the Old Block

    1960-1962: Thriller (TV Series) as Laurie Palmer / Aimie Cutter

    1960-1963: Rawhide (TV Series) as Abigail Fletcher / Susan Parker

    1960-1963: Perry Mason (TV Series) as Eva Belter / Dorine Hopkins / Janice Atkins

    1960-1963: The Twilight Zone (TV Series) as Ann / Leila

    1961: Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) as Beth Martin

    1961: Michael Shayne (TV Series) as Laura Endicott

    1961: The Americans (TV Series) as Jessica

    1961: The Tall Man (TV Series) as Sylvia

    1961: The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) as Millie Corwin

    1961: Ben Casey (TV Series) as Ruth Reynolds

    1962: Route 66 (TV Series) as Terry Prentiss

    1962: Safe at Home! as Johanna Price

    1962: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series) as Helen Loomis

    1962-1965: Dr. Kildare (TV Series) as Various Roles (6 episodes)

    1963: The Virginian (TV Series) as Alice Finley

    1963: The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) as Claudeen Lebowski

    1963: Going My Way (TV Series) as Kathryn Fontaine

    1963-1965: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) as Lisa Brisson / Lana Layne / Rosemary 'Peaches' Cassidy

    1964: Destry (TV Series) as Sarah Sprague

    1964: The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) as Betty Ames

    1964: The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) as Alice Adams

    1964: Send Me No Flowers as Linda

    1964: Kitten with a Whip as Vera

    1964: Dear Heart as Mitchell

    1964-1965: Harris Against the World (TV Series) as Kate Harris (Recurring role, 13 episodes)

    1967: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) as Princess Rapunzel

    1967: The Green Hornet (TV Series) as Hazel Schmidt / Vina Rose

    1967: Iron Horse (TV Series) as Helen Garth

    1967: The Felony Squad (TV Series) as Ellen Vincent

    1967: The High Chaparral (TV Series) as Melanie Cawthorne

    1967: CBS Playhouse (TV Series) as Sally Lambert

    1967: The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV Series) as Alice Butler

    1967-1975: Insight as Peggy / Bea / Martha Lipton / Mrs. Dilger / Connie Ford / Woman

    1968: Judd for the Defense (TV Series) as Kathryn Storm

    1968: Ironside (TV Series) as Martha Webb

    1969: Mannix (TV Series) as Claire Hanley

    1969: The Flying Nun (TV Series) as Sabrina Lewis

    1970: Crowhaven Farm (TV Movie) as Felicia

    1971: Eddie (TV Movie) as Mrs. Milburn

    1971: The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker as Dr. Sadler

    1971: Monty Nash (TV Series) as Molly (Recurring role, 3 episodes)

    1971: Dead Men Tell No Tales (TV Movie) as Lisa Martin

    1972: The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV Series) as Marian Sternwood

    1972-1973: Days of Our Lives (TV Series) as Addie Horton Williams (Recurring role, 4 episodes)

    1973: The Great American Beauty Contest (TV Movie) as Kay Earnshaw

    1975: Police Woman (TV Series) as Mrs. Fontaine

    1975: Columbo (TV Series) as Francine

    1976: Visions (TV Series) as Leonore Bishop

    1977: For Richer, for Poorer (TV Series) as Viola Brewster (1977-1978)

    1977: Charlie's Angels (TV Series) as Millicent Farber

    1978: First, You Cry as Anne

    1979: The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) as Bee (Recurring role, 3 episodes)

    1979: Three's Company (TV Series) as Mrs. Claremont

    1980: Bogie (TV Movie) as Zelda O'Moore

    1980: Cheaters (TV Movie)

    1980: A Cry for Love (TV Movie) as Jennifer Harris

    1980: Quincy M.E. (TV Series) as Dr. Hotchkiss

    1981: The Girl on the Edge of Town (TV Movie) as Mrs. Panich

    1981: The Texas Rangers (TV Movie) as Blanche

    1981-2005: All My Children (TV Series) as Peg English (Recurring role, 4 episodes)

    1982: The End of August as Mrs. Merriman

    1983: Twilight Zone: The Movie as Mother (segment "It's a Good Life")

    1984: The Jerk, Too (TV Movie) as Mrs. Van Buren

    1984: Her Life as a Man (TV Movie) as Gloria Rogers

    1985: Evergreen (TV Mini-Series) as Mrs. Lerner

    1985: Finder of Lost Loves (TV Series) as Elaine Mailand

    1985-1987: Guiding Light (TV Series) as Sally 'Miss Sally' Gleason (Main Recurring Role, 11 episodes)

    1986: Simon & Simon (TV Series) as Eleanor Finley

    1987: Nine to Five (TV Series) as Margaret

    1988: For Keeps as Adoption Official

    1988: Aaron's Way (TV Series)

    1989: City Rhythms

    1989: Sea of Love as Older Woman

    1989-1994: Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) as Melanie Venable / Mrs. Belle Pentworth

    1991 Knots Landing (TV Series) as Woman

    1991: Dallas (TV Series) as Janine

    1991: Hunter (TV Series) as Adele Hauser

    1992: She Woke Up (TV Movie) as Marcie Beauchamp

    1992: Invasion of Privacy (Video) as Drama Coach

    1992-1993: Loving (TV Series) as Isabella Alden (Recurring role, 2 episodes)

    1993: Ghostwriter (TV Series) as Lana Barnes (Recurring role, 4 episodes)

    2001: Providence (TV Series) as Margery York-Gladwell - Gobble, Gobble

    2014: Delusional as Older Annie Walton (final film role)