Chris Barnes (actor)

Chris Barnes
Barnes, circa 1976
Born
Christopher J. Barnes

(1965-06-24) June 24, 1965 (age 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1976–1983

Christopher J. Barnes (born June 24, 1965) is an American former child actor.

Career

Barnes began his professional film career at the age of 10. He is perhaps best known for his role as the short-tempered shortstop Tanner Boyle in the 1976 feature film The Bad News Bears and its sequel The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training,[1][2] as well as for appearing in several After School Specials during the late 1970s and early 1980s.[3][4][5]

Barnes earned about $3,000 for his five weeks of work on the original Bad News Bears film, of which 25% was set aside in United States Savings Bonds under the terms of the California Child Actor's Bill (known colloquially as the Coogan Law), to ensure that a portion of his earnings would be available to him once he was an adult. The bonds had been misplaced and didn't resurface until 1998, when he was living in Utah and worked at a flower shop.[6]

Filmography

Movies

Television

  • Delvecchio (episode: "Contract for Harry") (1976) - Tommy Wilson
  • NBC Special Treat (episode: Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid) (1976) - Luke Baldwin
  • Taxi (episode: "Memories of Cab 804, Part 1") (1978) - Kid
  • Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980) - Andrew
  • Aloha Paradise (episode: "Catching Up") (1981) - Danny
  • ABC Afterschool Special (episode: The Color of Friendship (1981) - David Bellinger
  • Through the Magic Pyramid (1981) - Bobby Tuttle
  • CBS Afternoon Playhouse (episode: Revenge of the Nerd) (1983) - Dalton Surewood

References

  1. ^ Bennett F. Waxse (August 2, 1977). "Bad News Bears as Good as Ever". The Milwaukee Journal.
  2. ^ Ann W. O'Neill (April 26, 1998). "A Bad News Bear Gets a Blast From the Past". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  3. ^ Win Fanning (November 9, 1976). "Blind Dog Story Has Happy Ending". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  4. ^ "'The Color of Friendship' - 'ABC Afterschool Special'". Baltimore Afro-American. November 7, 1981.
  5. ^ "Story of High School 'Nerd' Being Produced". Youngstown Vindicator. February 25, 1983.
  6. ^ O'Neill, Ann W. "A Bad News Bear Gets a Blast From the Past", Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1998. Accessed June 7, 2021.

Bibliography

  • Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 358.


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