Barry Corbin
Born: 1940-10-16 in Lamesa, Texas. USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon), often as a sheriff, military leader, or other authority figure.
Filmography
2026
- Brothers as Carl Travis
2025
- Sod and Stubble
- El Tonto Por Cristo as Terry Don
2023
- Killers of the Flower Moon as Undertaker Turton
2022
- Tulsa King as Babe Keller
- The Bay House as Cowden Brooks
2021
- Funny Thing About Love as Grandpa Joe
- Magic Max as Grismer
2020
- 9-1-1: Lone Star as Stuart Ryder
- Finding Harmony as Grady Pickett
2019
- Trading Paint as Sheriff Buck Taylor
- Eminence Hill as Noah
- The Margarita Man as Chief Doyle
2018
- Yellowstone as Ross
- Brimming with Love as Walter
- The Valley as Gary
- Farmer of the Year as Hap
2017
- Young Sheldon as Mr. Gilford
- Mountain Top as Sam Miller
- All Saints as Forrest
- Ay Lav Yu Tuu as Danny Brown
- An American in Texas as Larry Korchinsky
2016
- The Ranch as Dale
- New Life as Oscar
- Windsor as Gil Denton
- Last Man Club as Pete Williams
2015
- Better Call Saul as Everett Acker
- Blood & Oil as Clifton Lundegren
- Christmas in the Smokies as Wade Haygood
- Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's as Self
- Beyond the Farthest Star as Chief Burns
2014
- Planes: Fire & Rescue as Ol' Jammer (voice)
- The Homesman as Buster Shaver
- Diving With The Dinosaur Fish as Narrator
- Dawn of the Crescent Moon as Cyrus
- The Hitchhiker as Leonard
2013
- Shadow on the Mesa as Jake Rawlins
- This Is Where We Live as Bode Warden
- Return to Cicely as Self
2012
- Anger Management as Ed
- The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez as Walker
- Born Wild as Ray Jennings
- Ghoul as Grandfather
2011
- Redemption: For Robbing the Dead as Judge Smith
- Valley of the Sun as Gene Taggart
- The Next Door Neighbor as Judge Rodgers
- Universal Squadrons as Deakin
- Sedona as Les
- Feed the Fish as Axel Andersen
2010
- Parenthood as Ernie
- Bloodworth as Itchy
- NoNAMES as Ed
- Rising Stars as Farmer
2009
- Modern Family as Merle Tucker
- Ben 10: Alien Swarm as Grandpa Max Tennyson
- Wyvern as Haas
- That Evening Sun as Thurl Chessor
- Not Since You as Uncle Dennis
2008
- Beer for My Horses as Buck Baker
- Lake City as George
2007
- Army Wives as Veteran Patient
- No Country for Old Men as Ellis
- In the Valley of Elah as Arnold Bickman
- The Grand as Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro
2006
- Psych as Billy Joe
- The Unit as Carson
- Hidden Places as Sheriff
- Beautiful Dreamer as Grandpa
- Waitin' to Live as Buford Pike
2005
- The Closer as Clay Johnson
- Unscripted as Barry Corbin
- Alien Express as Senator Frank Rawlings
- River's End as Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins
- Yesterday's Dreams as Pastor
2004
- The Gristle as Senator Dorm
2003
- One Tree Hill as Whitey Durham
- Monte Walsh as Bob the Storekeeper
- Dunsmore as Sheriff Breen
2002
- Clover Bend as Cotton Clayton
- Hope Ranch as Shorty
2001
- Reba as JV
- Crossfire Trail as Sheriff Walter Moncrief
- The Journeyman as Charlie Ledbetter
- Drive-In Movie Memories
- No One Can Hear You as Sheriff Joe Webster
2000
- Mysterious Ways
- Timequest as Lyndon Johnson
1999
- Held Up as Pembry
- A Face to Kill For as Frank Hadley
- Sealed with a Kiss as Wink 'Pop' Blake
- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story as Tony
1998
- The Magnificent Seven as Wickes
1997
- King of the Hill as Fire Chief (voice)
- The Hired Heart as Mike Hadley
- The Fumbleheads as Robert Blister
1996
- Spin City as Peter Noland
- The Big Easy as C.D. LeBlanc
- Solo as General Clyde Haynes
- Curdled as Lodger
- My Son Is Innocent as Dan Pendleton
- Kiss and Tell as George Reed
1995
- JAG as Percival Bertram
- The Drew Carey Show as Chuck Fifer
- The Outer Limits as Carlton Powers
- Life with Louie as Uncle Sammy (voice)
- Deadly Family Secrets as Mr. Potter
- Virus as Dr. Clayman
- Siringo as Marshall John Llewellyn
1994
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Ben Crowder
1992
- The Keys as Buckaloo
1991
- Career Opportunities as Officer Don
- Conagher as Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver
- The Chase as Wallis
1990
- Northern Exposure as Maurice Minnifield
- The Hot Spot as Sheriff
- Ghost Dad as Mr. Emery Collins
- Short Time as Captain
- Last Flight Out as Capt. Bob Berg
1989
- Lonesome Dove as Roscoe Brown
- The Famous Teddy Z
- I Know My First Name Is Steven as Officer Warner
- Who's Harry Crumb? as P.J. Downing
- Red King, White Knight as Bentick
1988
- Critters 2 as Harv
- It Takes Two as George Lawrence
- Permanent Record as Jim Sinclair
- The People Across the Lake as Malcolm Bryce
- Stranger on My Land as Gil
- Man Against the Mob as Big Mac McCleary
- Secret Witness as Sheriff
1987
- Spies
- Warm Hearts, Cold Feet as Max
- Under Cover as Sergeant Irwin Lee
- LBJ: The Early Years as Judge Alvin J. Wirtz
- Young Harry Houdini as Elmore
- Off the Mark as Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa
1986
- Matlock as Steven McRea
- Designing Women
- Nothing in Common as Andrew Woolridge
- Under Siege
- The Defiant Ones as Floyd Carpenter
- C.A.T. Squad as The Director
- Hard Traveling as Frank Burton
- Maggie as Jimmy Scott Farnsworth
- Firefighter as Capt. Johnson
- John Henry as Mr. Jenkins
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "Dead Run")
- Tall Tales & Legends as Mr. Jenkins
- A Death in California as Jim Heusdens
- My Science Project as Lew Harlan
- Washingtoon as Bunky Munster
- What Comes Around as Leon Redden
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Lt. Lou Flannigan
- Call to Glory as Mr. Hunter
- The Duck Factory as Hubbell
- Fatal Vision as Franz Grebner
- The Ratings Game as Colonel
- Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac as Burt Hamilton
- The Jesse Owens Story as Judge
1983
- The A-Team as J.J. Kincaid
- WarGames as General Beringer
- The Thorn Birds as Pete
- Boone as Merit Sawyer
- The Man Who Loved Women as Roy Carr
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as B. R. Abernathy
- Travis McGee as Sheriff Hack Ames
1982
- American Playhouse as Abernathy
- Tucker's Witch
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as C.J.
- Honkytonk Man as Arnspriger
- Prime Suspect as Bob Austin
- Six Pack as Sheriff
- Fantasies as Naylor
- Bus Stop as Virgil Blessing
1981
- Hill Street Blues
- Dead & Buried as Phil
- Murder in Texas as Dist. Atty. McMasters
- The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia as Wimbish
- The Killing of Randy Webster as Nick Hanson
- A Few Days at Weasel Creek as Gus Lobell
- This House Possessed as Lt. Fletcher
- Bitter Harvest as Dr. Agajanian
1980
- Any Which Way You Can as Fat Zack
- Stir Crazy as Warden Walter Beatty
- Urban Cowboy as Uncle Bob
- Rage! as Resident #5
1979
1978
- Dallas as Sheriff Fenton Washburn
1975
- NBC Special Treat as Stokey Andrews
1974
- The Super Cops as Onlooker on Ladder (uncredited)
1972
1971
- Columbo as Clifford Calvert
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Elmore