Leonard Barr

Leonard Barr was born on Sep 27, 1903 in USA. Leonard Barr's big-screen debut came with Diamonds Are Forever directed by Guy Hamilton in 1971, strarring Shady Tree. Leonard Barr is known for The Sting directed by George Roy Hill, Paul Newman stars as Henry Gondorff and Robert Redford as Johnny Hooker. The upcoming new movie Leonard Barr plays is Under the Rainbow which will be released on Jul 31, 1981.

Leonard Barr was a comic and eccentric dancer who was famous for truly being Dean Martin's uncle, as he was the brother of Dino's mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra). They were Italians of mixed Neapolitan and Sicilian ancestry.Born Leonard Barra on September 27, 1903 in West Virginia, he became a stand-up comic who delivered one-liners dead-pan, in the style of Henny Youngman. He first appeared on TV in 1950 as a comic dancer, thanks to his nephew Dino, when Martin was hosting the The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), with his then-partner Jerry Lewis. Barr didn't appear again, until 1964, when he next appeared as a comic dancer, this time on The Hollywood Palace (1964).He continued to appear on TV, sporadically during the 1960s until his career as a TV comic and an actor took off starting in 1970. He appeared in the hit film, Les diamants sont éternels (1971), (which was Sean Connery's return to the role of Bond) as 'Shady Tree', and then appearing in the Oscar-winning film, L'Arnaque (1973) - both times as a comic. He continued to work steadily in TV and in movies until his death on November 22, 1980, when he was 77 years old.