Sharon Barr
Acting
Biography
An American actress who achieved cult status in the 1970s with her participation in the neo-expressionist off-off Broadway movement with roles in Women Behind Bars and The Dirtiest Show in Town. Barr was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her career in the 1971 Los Angeles production of Tom Eyen's Dirtiest Show in Town. She went on to star in Eyen's Women Behind Bars, and play Anita Bryant in Ronald Tavel's The Ovens of Anita Orange Juice at Williamstown Theater Festival and later again in New York, among many other productions. She also appeared in Eyen's White Whore and the Bit Player, Ms Neffertiti Regrets and Give My Regards to Off-Off Broadway at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa ETC. And performed at Theater Genesis at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, and Manhattan Theater Club. In the early 90's Barr wrote and performed a solo performance piece titled "Protect Me From What I Want" in comedy venues around Los Angeles. Barr went on to guest star on numerous TV series, including Hill Street Blues, Night Court, Seinfeld and Cheers where she was the only actor to appear as two different characters on two separate episodes. She was a series regular on ABC's Max Headroom and also appeared in Martin Ritt's Nuts, and Dario Argento's Trauma.
Known For
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
Seinfeld
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
Cheers
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Night Court
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
St. Elsewhere
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Wings
Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the station's dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create the world's first self-aware, computer-generated TV host — Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower?
Max Headroom
An anthology series, aired in late 1988 as part of the 'ABC Monday Mystery Movie' lineup. The crime drama is a revival of the original 1973–79 series of the same name, using previous scripts for all five two-hour episodes.
Police Story
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Jury Duty
Freelance journalist Matt Bailey's carefree life in his mother's home ends when his recently divorced sister Vanessa and her two children move in.
Home Free
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter.
Trauma
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Walker
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Nuts
Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to deal with the two men who fixed it, the police investigating it, and the mob boss whose amorous wife is mixed up in it.
A Fine Mess
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
Bad Georgia Road
A television movie about an FBI agent (Jackée) who breaks her leg while trying to capture drug runners, and her identical twin sister (also portrayed by Jackée), a waitress who is enlisted to take her place. Masquerading as a sophisticated financial analyst, the twin is thrust into a dangerous game of organized crime and official corruption with a shady business mogul.
Double Your Pleasure
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
Dark Holiday
A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Antony and Cleopatra
Teenager is stunned when his best friend commits suicide, and is left with one unanswered question - Why?