Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Barrett (actor)


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

John Barrett (actor)

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Barrett is a non-notable actor. He did small and bit parts, many of them uncredited. My search was not able to produce any sources, and IMDb is not at all even close to an acceptable source. Nothing comes close to suggesting Barrett had multiple significant roles in notable productions. John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment I have only just started searching for sources. I would note that IMDB shows that he has had roles in far more TV shows, including 13 episodes of Not On Your Nellie; another role besides the two listed in Coronation Street, for 19 episodes in the 1970s; two roles in Emmerdale, including one for 8 episodes in 1983; 7 of 9 episodes of Clochemerle in 1972, etc. And he appeared in all episodes of The Dustbinmen, and was the most significant character after the four dustbinmen. Apart from that, there was a John Barrett, actor, who won a BAFTA Imp Award for radio in 1978. Wikipedia doesn't seem to know anything about those awards, but whether it's notable or not, it suggests that his career extended to radio as well as TV and film. I will keep searching and add sources and info to the article, before assessing whether he meets WP:NACTOR. RebeccaGreen (talk) 19:25, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I am still working on the table of stage performances, as well as adding info and sources to the article. I will add the stage table when it's more finished. He definitely meets WP:NACTOR - he played main roles at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in several notable productions, including the Edward Bond plays Saved and Early Morning in 1969; Barry Hines' play Billy's Last Stand in 1970; David Storey's play The Changing Room in 1971; and got attention as the gravedigger in Hamlet in 1980. There are comments in reviews like "Both John Barrett as Billy and Ian McKellen as Darkly give powerful performances, each sombre, thoughtful, balanced and real"; "The acting is first-rate. ... John Barrett is wonderfully solid and self-satisfied at the start as an innocent faced by capitalism; and in his final gritty resignation to his fate the actor never puts an eyelid wrong." "John Barrett as the butler, who, while never going beyond the bounds of correctness, can express his views of his employers with the twitch of an eyebrow or the set of a shoulder." And some of his TV appearances are also main roles, and got critical attention, eg in the Alan Bennett play Rolling Home: "John Barrett as Joey managed his day-dreams and disgruntlement, relieved from time to time by toothless smiles, with complete conviction." I'll hopefully have the stage and bio info ready for the article soon (there's also an extra 20 years of his stage career that's not included in the info box yet). RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:22, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep as per WP:HEY as the article ha been significantly improved since being nominated and it can be seen through reliable sources that he has had prominent roles in notable television prime-time productions and West End theatre productions so passes WP:NACTOR criteria 1 which includes theatre productions (only one criteria neede), regards Atlantic306 (talk) 18:59, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. He does seem to have had prominent roles as noted above, and the article now shows this fairly well. Dunarc (talk) 19:39, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


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