Barry Williams

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Biography

Recent Role:
Himself on Dancing With the Stars
Gender:
Male
Born:
9-30-1954
Birthplace:
Santa Monica, California
Birth Name:
Barry William Blenkhorn
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… More 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.

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    9.9 Superb
    Barry Williams is a very handsome and sexy man who seems to have gotten better with age. hide show

    Barry Williams is a very good actor who has come a long way since his days on "THE BRADY BUNCH" as Greg Brady.
    He does a very good radio show on SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO.
    You can tell that he really enjoys his time on the radio as a DJ. If you get the chance to listen sometime ~ I think you will like his show to. Barry also seems to really be good to his fans~ he answers questions himself that are posted on his Website. You should check out his Website and see what you think. I think you will like it~ Barry Williams is a very cool guy.

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    BrodiesBabe Added Feb 2, 2007 All my reviews
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    8 Great
    Barry Williams is an awesome actor, best known as Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch. hide show

    Barry is awesome because not only was he a good actor for Greg on The Brady Bunch, but he's also a good musician, too. Though he's past 50, he still appears to be in good health and just as active and young-spirited as ever. Seems like a nice person, too, and many others who have met him say that he is very friendly to fans and likes to make them happy and likes signing autographs. I hope that he continues his career even as he gets older because he is a really good actor/musician that is funny, too. He is cool.

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    n842 Added Aug 13, 2006 All my reviews
 
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