Here is the biography of David Barry:
David Barry was born on April 30th, 1943, in Bangor, North Wales. As a young boy, he attended Hillgrove School in Bangor and also went to school across the Menai Straits in nearby Anglesey. He later moved to London and enrolled at The Corona Academy stage school in Chiswick, where he studied alongside other notable alumni such as Jeremy Bulloch, Richard O'Sullivan, Dennis Waterman, and Frazer Hines.
David's first role as an actor was at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, where he played the part of "Harlen" in the play "Life with Father". He is best remembered for his role as Frankie Abbott, the cowardly "mummy's boy", in the popular London Weekend Television series "Please Sir!", which made him a household name.
The series, which was based around a fictitious South London comprehensive school, ran for four series and 53 episodes. A spin-off series called "The Fenn Street Gang" followed the kids of 5C as they left school and looked for work, but it was axed in 1973. David continued working in television, films, theatre, and radio, and also began to write, penning scripts for public and private sector organisations.
In 2002, David published his first novel, a police comedy thriller titled "Each Man Kills", and in 2005, he created and wrote the first weekly UK internet soap "Careless Talk", set in Tunbridge Wells. He also completed his autobiography, "Flashback - An Actor's Life", in 2006, which tells the story of his life as a child actor, working with the likes of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
David is divorced and has two grown-up children.
