Highest rated movie: A Christmas Carol (1938)
Lowest rated movie: Knights of the Round Table (1953)
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Movies starring Barry MacKay have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
A Christmas Carol - released in 1938 - is Barry MacKay's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 223 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Barry MacKay is Knights of the Round Table - released in 1953 - with a score of 55% based on 29 reviews.
Barry MacKay (8 January 1906 – 12 December 1985) was a British actor.
He was most prominently seen in light comedic roles in the British cinema of the 1930s and is perhaps best known as Jessie Matthews' leading man in Evergreen (1934), Gangway (1937) and Sailing Along (1938).
Other notable roles include Lieutenant Somerville in Brown on Resolution (1935) and as Fred, Scrooge's nephew, in MGM's film A Christmas Carol (1938), the latter being one of two films he made in the US; the other was the lead role in a B-picture, Smuggled Cargo (1939). After these films and serving in the Canadian navy during WW II, followed by stage work, there was a long gap in his film career until he reappeared as a character actor in the 1950s, making his last film (Timeslip a.k.a. The Atomic Man ) in 1955.
Barry also appeared in the 1954 Sheldon Reynolds produced Sherlock Holmes television series. He portrayed Reggie "Sardines" Taunton in episode 17; "The Case of the Laughing Mummy".
Barry MacKay has acted in films with Athene Seyler, June Lockhart, Ronald Sinclair and Merle Oberon.
Barry MacKay has worked with these film directors: Richard Thorpe, Edwin L. Marin, Alexander Korda and Sonnie Hale.
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