Lynn Bari

Q: What is Lynn Bari's most recent movie or series?

Lynn Bari's most recent release is Johnny Walker, which premiered on May 13, 2015.

Dec 18, 1913 — Nov 20, 1989 (75 years) Roanoke, Virginia, USA

108 Movies 9 Series

Known for

Moon Over Her Shoulder

as Susan Rossiter

75R.I.P.

108Movies

9Series

Known for

Moon Over Her Shoulder

as Susan Rossiter

75 R.I.P.

R.I.P.

108

Movies

Series

Movies

The Baroness and the Butler

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

1952

⭐ 6.6

Charlie Chan in Paris

You Can't Have Everything

Francis Joins the WACS

1954

⭐ 6.3

The Falcon Takes Over

Pack Up Your Troubles

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951

⭐ 6.8

Walking Down Broadway

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

TV Shows

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Full Filmography

The Young Runaways

Mrs. Donford

1968

Film

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Lynn Bari still alive?

Lynn Bari passed away on November 20, 1989 at age 75.

What are the most famous roles of Lynn Bari?

Lynn Bari is best known for roles in Shock, Blood and Sand, The Amazing Mr. X.

How many movies has Lynn Bari been in?

Over a 56-year career (since 1933), Lynn Bari has appeared in 112 movies and 17 TV shows.

What was Lynn Bari's first movie?

The career of Lynn Bari began with Meet the Baron (1933).

What is Lynn Bari's most recent movie or series?

Lynn Bari's most recent release is The Young Runaways, which premiered on September 11, 1968.

What TV shows has Lynn Bari appeared in?

On television, Lynn Bari has appeared in Perry Mason, The F.B.I., Ben Casey, Climax!.

Lynn Bari (born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.

Bari was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the company's training school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.

In most of her early films, Bari had uncredited parts usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. She struggled to find starring roles in films, but accepted any work she could get. Rare leading roles included China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). In B movies, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess, notably Shock and Nocturne (both 1946). An exception was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). During WWII, according to a survey taken of GIs, Bari was the second-most popular pinup girl after the much better-known Betty Grable.

Bari's film career fizzled out in the early 1950s as she was approaching her 40th birthday, although she continued to work at a more limited pace over the next two decades, now playing matronly characters rather than temptresses. She portrayed the mother of a suicidal teenager in a 1951 drama, On the Loose, plus a number of supporting parts.

Bari's last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Patty McCormack in The Young Runaways (1968) and her final TV appearances were in episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and The FBI.

She quickly took up the rising medium of television during the '50s, which began when she starred in the live television sitcom Detective's Wife, which ran during the summer of 1950, and in Boss Lady

In 1955, Bari appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" of Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama City Detective. In 1960, she played female bandit Belle Starr in the debut episode "Perilous Passage" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure and with fellow guest star Robert J. Wilke as Cole Younger.

From July–September 1952, Bari starred in her own situation comedy, Boss Lady, a summer replacement for NBC's Fireside Theater. She portrayed Gwen F. Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm. Not the least of her troubles in the role was being able to hire a general manager who did not fall in love with her.

Commenting on her "other woman" roles, Bari once said, "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse. I'm terrified of guns. I go from one set to the other shooting people and stealing husbands!"

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