
About
Barry Corbin
Overview
Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon), often as a sheriff, military leader, or other authority figure.
Known for
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2025 | Sod and Stubble | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Actor | Undertaker Turton | 72 Good |
2022 | The Bay House | Actor | Cowden Brooks | N/A N/A |
2021 | Funny Thing About Love | Actor | Grandpa Joe | 58 Average |
2021 | Magic Max | Actor | Grismer | 59 Average |
2020 | Star Trek: First Frontier | Actor | John April | 59 Average |
2019 | Eminence Hill | Actor | Noah | 58 Average |
2019 | The Margarita Man | Actor | Chief Doyle | 58 Average |
2019 | Trading Paint | Actor | Sheriff Buck Taylor | 57 Average |
2018 | The Valley | Actor | Gary | 58 Average |
2018 | Brimming with Love | Actor | Walter | 59 Average |
2018 | Farmer of the Year | Actor | Hap | 59 Average |
2017 | An American in Texas | Actor | Larry Korchinsky | 58 Average |
2017 | Ay Lav Yu Tuu | Actor | Danny Brown | 58 Average |
2017 | All Saints | Actor | Forrest | 59 Average |
2017 | Mountain Top | Actor | Sam Miller | 58 Average |
2016 | New Life | Actor | Oscar | 59 Average |
2016 | Windsor | Actor | Gil Denton | 58 Average |
2016 | Last Man Club | Actor | Pete Williams | 59 Average |
2015 | Christmas in the Smokies | Actor | Wade Haygood | 58 Average |
2015 | Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2014 | Diving With The Dinosaur Fish | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Actor | Ol' Jammer (voice) | 60 Fair |
2014 | The Homesman | Actor | Buster Shaver | 62 Fair |
2014 | The Hitchhiker | Actor | Leonard | N/A N/A |
2014 | Dawn of the Crescent Moon | Actor | Cyrus | 59 Average |
2013 | Beyond the Farthest Star | Actor | Chief Burns | 59 Average |
2013 | This Is Where We Live | Actor | Bode Warden | N/A N/A |
2013 | Shadow on the Mesa | Actor | Jake Rawlins | 58 Average |
2012 | Born Wild | Actor | Ray Jennings | 58 Average |
2012 | Anger Management | Actor | Ed | 63 Fair |
2012 | The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez | Actor | Walker | 58 Average |
2012 | Ghoul | Actor | Grandfather | 58 Average |
2011 | Universal Squadrons | Actor | Deakin | 58 Average |
2011 | Redemption: For Robbing the Dead | Actor | Judge Smith | 58 Average |
2011 | Sedona | Actor | Les | 59 Average |
2011 | Feed the Fish | Actor | Axel Andersen | 58 Average |
2011 | The Next Door Neighbor | Actor | Judge Rodgers | N/A N/A |
2011 | Valley of the Sun | Actor | Gene Taggart | 58 Average |
2010 | Rising Stars | Actor | Farmer | 59 Average |
2010 | Ben 10 Alien Swarm | Actor | Grandpa Max Tennyson | 59 Average |
2010 | NoNAMES | Actor | Ed | N/A N/A |
2010 | Bloodworth | Actor | Itchy | 59 Average |
2009 | That Evening Sun | Actor | Thurl Chessor | 59 Average |
2009 | Not Since You | Actor | Uncle Dennis | 58 Average |
2009 | Wyvern | Actor | Haas | 57 Average |
2008 | Beer for My Horses | Actor | Buck Baker | 58 Average |
2008 | Lake City | Actor | George | 58 Average |
2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Actor | Arnold Bickman | 64 Fair |
2007 | No Country for Old Men | Actor | Ellis | 78 Good |
2007 | The Grand | Actor | Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro | 58 Average |
2006 | Waitin' to Live | Actor | Buford Pike | N/A N/A |
2006 | Beautiful Dreamer | Actor | Grandpa | 58 Average |
2006 | Hidden Places | Actor | Sheriff | 59 Average |
2005 | Alien Express | Actor | Senator Frank Rawlings | 58 Average |
2005 | Yesterday's Dreams | Actor | Pastor | N/A N/A |
2005 | River's End | Actor | Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins | 58 Average |
2004 | The Gristle | Actor | Senator Dorm | 58 Average |
2003 | Dunsmore | Actor | Sheriff Breen | 58 Average |
2003 | Timequest | Actor | Lyndon Johnson | 58 Average |
2003 | Monte Walsh | Actor | Bob the Storekeeper | 58 Average |
2002 | Hope Ranch | Actor | Shorty | 58 Average |
2002 | Clover Bend | Actor | Cotton Clayton | 58 Average |
2001 | Drive-In Movie Memories | Actor | 58 Average |
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2001 | The Journeyman | Actor | Charlie Ledbetter | 58 Average |
2001 | Crossfire Trail | Actor | Sheriff Walter Moncrief | 58 Average |
2001 | No One Can Hear You | Actor | Sheriff Joe Webster | 58 Average |
1999 | Held Up | Actor | Pembry | 58 Average |
1999 | Sealed with a Kiss | Actor | Wink 'Pop' Blake | 59 Average |
1999 | Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story | Actor | Tony | 58 Average |
1999 | A Face to Kill for | Actor | Frank Hadley | 58 Average |
1997 | The Hired Heart | Actor | Mike Hadley | 58 Average |
1997 | The Fumbleheads | Actor | Robert Blister | 58 Average |
1996 | Curdled | Actor | Lodger | 58 Average |
1996 | Solo | Actor | General Clyde Haynes | 57 Average |
1996 | The Big Easy | Actor | C.D. LeBlanc | 70 Good |
1996 | My Son Is Innocent | Actor | Dan Pendleton | 59 Average |
1996 | Kiss and Tell | Actor | George Reed | 58 Average |
1995 | Deadly Family Secrets | Actor | Mr. Potter | 58 Average |
1995 | Siringo | Actor | Marshall John Llewellyn | 59 Average |
1995 | Virus | Actor | Dr. Clayman | 58 Average |
1994 | Moon Shot | Actor | Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice) | N/A N/A |
1994 | Moon Shot | Actor | Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice) | N/A N/A |
1992 | The Keys | Actor | Buckaloo | N/A N/A |
1991 | Conagher | Actor | Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver | 59 Average |
1991 | Career Opportunities | Actor | Officer Don | 64 Fair |
1991 | The Chase | Actor | Wallis | 58 Average |
1990 | The Hot Spot | Actor | Sheriff | 60 Fair |
1990 | Northern Exposure | Actor | Maurice Minnifield | 76 Good |
1990 | Ghost Dad | Actor | Mr. Emery Collins | 56 Average |
1990 | Last Flight Out | Actor | Capt. Bob Berg | N/A N/A |
1990 | Short Time | Actor | Captain | 59 Average |
1989 | Red King, White Knight | Actor | Bentick | 58 Average |
1989 | I Know My First Name Is Steven | Actor | Officer Warner | 68 Fair |
1989 | Lonesome Dove | Actor | Roscoe Brown | 76 Good |
1989 | Who's Harry Crumb? | Actor | P.J. Downing | 58 Average |
1988 | The People Across the Lake | Actor | Malcolm Bryce | 59 Average |
1988 | It Takes Two | Actor | George Lawrence | 58 Average |
1988 | Critters 2 | Actor | Harv | 60 Fair |
1988 | Permanent Record | Actor | Jim Sinclair | 59 Average |
1988 | Stranger on My Land | Actor | Gil | 58 Average |
1988 | Man Against the Mob | Actor | Big Mac McCleary | N/A N/A |
1987 | Under Cover | Actor | Sergeant Irwin Lee | 58 Average |
1987 | Off the Mark | Actor | Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa | 58 Average |
1987 | Young Harry Houdini | Actor | Elmore | 58 Average |
1987 | Spies | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | LBJ: The Early Years | Actor | Judge Alvin J. Wirtz | 58 Average |
1987 | Warm Hearts, Cold Feet | Actor | Max | 58 Average |
1986 | John Henry | Actor | Mr. Jenkins | N/A N/A |
1986 | Firefighter | Actor | Capt. Johnson | 58 Average |
1986 | Nothing in Common | Actor | Andrew Woolridge | 58 Average |
1986 | C.A.T. Squad | Actor | The Director | 58 Average |
1986 | Under Siege | Actor | 58 Average |
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1986 | Hard Traveling | Actor | Frank Burton | N/A N/A |
1986 | The Defiant Ones | Actor | Floyd Carpenter | 58 Average |
1985 | Washingtoon | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1985 | My Science Project | Actor | Lew Harlan | 59 Average |
1985 | What Comes Around | Actor | Leon Redden | 59 Average |
1985 | A Death in California | Actor | Jim Heusdens | 68 Fair |
1984 | The Ratings Game | Actor | Colonel | 58 Average |
1984 | Fatal Vision | Actor | Franz Grebner | 68 Fair |
1984 | The Jesse Owens Story | Actor | Judge | 59 Average |
1984 | Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac | Actor | Burt Hamilton | 58 Average |
1983 | The Man Who Loved Women | Actor | Roy Carr | 57 Average |
1983 | Boone | Actor | 69 Fair |
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1983 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Actor | B. R. Abernathy | 59 Average |
1983 | WarGames | Actor | General Beringer | 68 Fair |
1983 | Travis McGee | Actor | Sheriff Hack Ames | 58 Average |
1983 | The Thorn Birds | Actor | Pete | 71 Good |
1982 | Honkytonk Man | Actor | Arnspriger | 60 Fair |
1982 | Bus Stop | Actor | Virgil Blessing | N/A N/A |
1982 | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Actor | C.J. | 59 Average |
1982 | Six Pack | Actor | Sheriff | 59 Average |
1982 | Prime Suspect | Actor | Bob Austin | 58 Average |
1982 | Fantasies | Actor | Naylor | 59 Average |
1981 | A Few Days at Weasel Creek | Actor | Gus Lobell | N/A N/A |
1981 | The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia | Actor | Wimbish | 58 Average |
1981 | Dead & Buried | Actor | Phil | 60 Fair |
1981 | Bitter Harvest | Actor | Dr. Agajanian | 58 Average |
1981 | Murder in Texas | Actor | Dist. Atty. McMasters | N/A N/A |
1981 | The Killing of Randy Webster | Actor | Nick Hanson | 58 Average |
1981 | This House Possessed | Actor | Lt. Fletcher | 58 Average |
1980 | Any Which Way You Can | Actor | Fat Zack | 58 Average |
1980 | Stir Crazy | Actor | Warden Walter Beatty | 61 Fair |
1980 | Rage! | Actor | Resident #5 | 58 Average |
1980 | Urban Cowboy | Actor | Uncle Bob | 60 Fair |
1974 | The Super Cops | Actor | Onlooker on Ladder (uncredited) | 58 Average |
Northern Exposure | Actor | Maurice Minnifield | 59 Average |
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Be Glad He Did It | Actor | Buddy Kasper | N/A N/A |
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The Dilemma | Actor | Gerald | N/A N/A |
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The Pipeline | Actor | Lester Galloway | N/A N/A |
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El Tonto Por Cristo | Actor | Terry Don | N/A N/A |
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Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story | Actor | Henry Spangler (voice) | N/A N/A |