Celebrity Biographies
Ray Barrett
Baz Luhrman’s Australia , where he shared the screen with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, was his last film work. But Ray Barrett was a veteran who leaves behind him a filmography made up of a hundred roles. The actor died on Tuesday, September 8, at the age of 82, as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage, in a hospital opposite the Great Coral Reef in Australia. The actor had been admitted after an emergency due to a problem with low blood pressure, as explained by Jane Cameron, his agent. “He was an extraordinary actor who liked what he did,” she also commented.
Born on May 2, 1927 in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), Raymond Charles Barrett studied music and diction, and began acting when he was only eleven years old. Although he was under contract to a production company in his native country, and worked for a long time on radio, in Sydney, in 1958 he decided to emigrate to Britain, where he obtained further opportunities as an actor. There they gave him roles in titles such as Without Appeal , with Anne Baxter and in the most successful English series of the moment: The Avengers , The Saint and Doctor Who . But his most popular character on the small screen was a puppet he voiced, specifically John Tracy ., third of the five leading brothers, as lonely as he is a lover of astronomy.
Among the films in which Barrett participated as a supporting role are My New Champion , Where Green Ants Dream , Blood Oath , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , Visitors , and Desperate Escape , with Russell Crowe .
Falling in love with Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, he bought a house there, in Cala en Baster. He is survived by his current partner, Gaye Barrett, and three children from two previous relationships.