In this fantastic interview Cheryl spends some time with Barry Corbin. They discuss many of his roles in movies and tv and he has some wonderful comments about Conagher. A 1991 western movie he starred in with Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Ken Curtis, Paul Koslo, Gavan O’Herlihy, Buck Taylor, Dub Taylor, James Gammon and Billy Green Bush. From a Louis L’Amour novel About a tough cowboy facing some trouble crosses paths with a lonely woman living in the middle of nowhere. They also discuss Lonesome Dove and Northern Exposure and many other shows.
Barry Corbin was born Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, south of Lubbock in West Texas. He is the son of the former Alma LaMerle Scott (1918–1994), a teacher, and Kilmer Blaine Corbin, Sr. (1919–1993), a school principal, judge, and Democratic member of the Texas State Senate for two terms, from 1949 to 1957. Barry was named for author J. M. Barrie by his mother. He played football briefly in eighth grade, but soon moved to the arts, including acting and ballet classes. He graduated from Monterey High School and studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. When he was 21, he joined the United States Marine Corps, served two years, and then returned to Texas Tech.
Barry began his career in the 1960s as a Shakespearean stage actor, but today is more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has portrayed murderous villains. To moviegoers, he is well remembered as General Beringer in WarGames, John Travolta’s uncle Bob Davis in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or Roscoe Brown, July Johnson’s bumbling deputy in the acclaimed Western Lonesome Dove.
From 1979 until 1984, played Sheriff Fenton Washburn on the Dallas tv series.
From 1990 to 1995, Corbin portrayed former astronaut and local business leader Maurice Minnifield on CBS’s Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.