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
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
- Magic Max as Grismer
- Funny Thing About Love as Grandpa Joe
2020
- 9-1-1: Lone Star as Stuart Ryder
- Star Trek: First Frontier as John April
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
- Last Man Club as Pete Williams
- Windsor as Gil Denton
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
- The Hitchhiker as Leonard
- Dawn of the Crescent Moon as Cyrus
- Diving With The Dinosaur Fish as Narrator
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
- Born Wild as Ray Jennings
- Ghoul as Grandfather
- The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez as Walker
2011
- Feed the Fish as Axel Andersen
- Sedona as Les
- Valley of the Sun as Gene Taggart
- Redemption: For Robbing the Dead as Judge Smith
- Universal Squadrons as Deakin
- The Next Door Neighbor as Judge Rodgers
2010
- Parenthood as Ernie
- Rising Stars as Farmer
- Bloodworth as Itchy
- NoNAMES as Ed
2009
- Modern Family as Merle Tucker
- Ben 10: Alien Swarm as Grandpa Max Tennyson
- Not Since You as Uncle Dennis
- That Evening Sun as Thurl Chessor
- Wyvern as Haas
2008
- Lake City as George
- Beer for My Horses as Buck Baker
2007
- No Country for Old Men as Ellis
- Army Wives as Veteran Patient
- 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
- Waitin' to Live as Buford Pike
- Beautiful Dreamer as Grandpa
2005
- The Closer as Clay Johnson
- Unscripted as Barry Corbin
- River's End as Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins
- Alien Express as Senator Frank Rawlings
- Yesterday's Dreams as Pastor
2004
- The Gristle as Senator Dorm
2003
- One Tree Hill as Whitey Durham
- Monte Walsh as Bob the Storekeeper
- Timequest as Lyndon Johnson
- 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
1999
- Held Up as Pembry
- Sealed with a Kiss as Wink 'Pop' Blake
- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story as Tony
- A Face to Kill For as Frank Hadley
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
- Curdled as Lodger
- Solo as General Clyde Haynes
- Kiss and Tell as George Reed
- My Son Is Innocent as Dan Pendleton
1995
- JAG as Percival Bertram
- The Drew Carey Show as Chuck Fifer
- The Outer Limits as Carlton Powers
- Deadly Family Secrets as Mr. Potter
- Virus as Dr. Clayman
- Siringo as Marshall John Llewellyn
1994
- Ellen as Jack Penney
- Life with Louie as Uncle Sammy (voice)
- Moon Shot as Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
- Moon Shot as Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
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
- I Know My First Name Is Steven as Officer Warner
- The Famous Teddy Z
- 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
- Stranger on My Land as Gil
- The People Across the Lake as Malcolm Bryce
- Secret Witness as Sheriff
- Man Against the Mob as Big Mac McCleary
1987
- Off the Mark as Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa
- Under Cover as Sergeant Irwin Lee
- Spies
- Young Harry Houdini as Elmore
- Warm Hearts, Cold Feet as Max
- LBJ: The Early Years as Judge Alvin J. Wirtz
1986
- Matlock as Steven McRea
- Designing Women
- Nothing in Common as Andrew Woolridge
- C.A.T. Squad as The Director
- Under Siege
- John Henry as Mr. Jenkins
- The Defiant Ones as Floyd Carpenter
- Hard Traveling as Frank Burton
- Firefighter as Capt. Johnson
- Maggie as Jimmy Scott Farnsworth
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "Dead Run")
- Tall Tales & Legends as Mr. Jenkins
- My Science Project as Lew Harlan
- A Death in California as Jim Heusdens
- 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
- The Jesse Owens Story as Judge
- Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac as Burt Hamilton
1983
- The A-Team as J.J. Kincaid
- The Thorn Birds as Pete
- WarGames as General Beringer
- Boone as Merit Sawyer
- Travis McGee as Sheriff Hack Ames
- The Man Who Loved Women as Roy Carr
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as B. R. Abernathy
1982
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as C.J.
- Tucker's Witch
- Honkytonk Man as Arnspriger
- Six Pack as Sheriff
- Prime Suspect as Bob Austin
- Bus Stop as Virgil Blessing
- Fantasies as Naylor
1981
- Hill Street Blues
- The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia as Wimbish
- Dead & Buried as Phil
- Murder in Texas as Dist. Atty. McMasters
- Bitter Harvest as Dr. Agajanian
- This House Possessed as Lt. Fletcher
- The Killing of Randy Webster as Nick Hanson
- A Few Days at Weasel Creek as Gus Lobell
1980
- Urban Cowboy as Uncle Bob
- Stir Crazy as Warden Walter Beatty
- Any Which Way You Can as Fat Zack
- 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