Barry Williams Biography

Barry Williams: Biography

Barry William Blenkhorn grew up in Santa Monica, California and after he turned 4 years old he became one of those annoying kids who were bound and determined to get into show business. He was neighbors with actor Peter Graves whom he idolised and asked for advice on how to become an actor and his response was that he just thought about it. At the age of 11 he changed his name from Barry William Blenkhorn to Barry Williams he then got an acting coach and took some scene study courses in Sherman Oaks and took courses for film and television techniques which later he landed a lead role in an educational school industrial called Why Johnny Can Read and landed roles in TV commercials. Then he had guest roles in TV shows such as Run for Your Life, Here Come the Brides, It Takes a Thief, Marcus Welby MD and Mission: Impossible but then success came for him when he landed the role of Greg Brady in the Blockbuster hit family sitcom series The Brady Bunch. After the first season him and his TV siblings made a Christmas album signed by Paramount Records which sold terribly as critics called them 6 kids who couldn't sing so Barry took singing lessons and released a single by the same record company called "Sweet Sweetheart" hoping to have a solo album released but producers thought he should wait for that moment while he was making records with his TV siblings as they made 3 more records, did summer tours and had their own animated TV series The Brady Kids on which some of their songs were featured. After the series ended in 1974 Barry started performing solo in concerts and then took up musical theatre and landed numerous successful roles in shows like Pippin, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Movie Star, Grease, The Music Man, Romance/Romance, City of Angels and The Sound of Music and still did the odd acting appearance in front of the camera like in Police Woman, Three's Company, Highway to Heaven, Murder She Wrote and a stint on the daytime soap General Hospital and the MTV series S Club 7 in Hollywood as well as in all the Brady Bunch reunion shows. In 1978 he did try taking a shot at pursuing a solo career and signed up with Private Stock records but their label went out of business, but however in 1999 he did release a tribute album called "The Return of Johnny Bravo" doing cover songs that expressed him as a singer as well as celebrating 30 years of The Brady Bunch. He continues to do musical theatre as well as touring with his music and public speaking.

Barry has said that if he could have kept anything from the Brady Bunch set, it would be the wooden rocking horse in the living room. "That thing was so cool," he has said.(edit)
Barry Williams released an album called The Return of Johnny Bravo.(edit)
Barry Williams appears in the music video for Peter Gabriel's song "The Barry Williams Show," eventhough the song wasn't written about him. (edit)
Barry Williams was the co-executive producer of the TV movie Growing Up Brady.(edit)
In 2004, Barry Williams appeared in a number of television ads for Airborne Cold Remedy.(edit)
When Barry Williams got married, his Brady Bunch co-star, Christopher Knight, was his best man.(edit)
Barry Williams was ranked as number twenty two on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars."(edit)
Barry Williams is a host of a program on Sirius Satellite Radio's Totally '70s channel.(edit)
On January 17th 2003, Barry Williams had a son named Brandon Eric Williams. Brandon weighed 7 pounds 7 1/2 ounces(edit)
Barry Williams was married to Diane Martin from 1990 until 1992. He then was married to Eila May Matt from 1999 until 2006.(edit)
Barry Williams faced off against Danny Bonaduce in a celebrity boxing match, but lost.(edit)
In 2001, Barry Williams was fined $50,000 by the Actors Equity for appearing in a non-Equity tour of The Sound of Music.(edit)
In 1992, Barry wrote a book called Growing Up Brady...I Was a Teenage Greg. The book spent more than three months on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over 300,000 copies.(edit)
Barry Williams has been married twice.(edit)
Barry Williams is 5'11" tall. (edit)
He used to have a crush on Maureen McCormick who played Marcia.(edit)

Barry Williams: Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.(edit)
Barry Williams: I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion. (edit)
Barry Williams: I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose. (edit)