Leonard Barr

• Name — Leonard Barr • Birth Name — Leonard Barra • Born — 27 September 1903 • Birthplace — West Virginia, U.S. • Died — 22 November 1980 • Place of death — Burbank, California, U.S. • Years Active — 1970–1980 • Medium — Stand-up, television, film • Genre — One-liners • Notable Work — Diamonds Are Forever • Relatives — Dean Martin (nephew)

Barr appeared several times with Dean Martin (his nephew) and Jerry Lewis when they hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour. He had a brief role in The Sting, as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard". Barr's comedic schtick was one-liners; told with a straight face, and sometimes deliberately repeating a punchline. In the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, he played Shady Tree, a stand-up comedian and smuggler in Las Vegas. He also appeared in The Odd Couple in the non-dialogue New York street scenes in the first season and in later episodes with dialogue; and, albeit unnamed, on an episode of M*A*S*H as a USO comedian. He also made numerous guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as Martin's own variety show. Cameron Crowe briefly depicted Barr as a foul-mouthed real-life character in Almost Famous, his semi-autobiographical film of 2000.

He was the uncle of Dean Martin (being the brother of Dean Martin's mother Angela).

Barr died in Burbank, California, at age 77 on November 22, 1980, after suffering a stroke three weeks earlier.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1971 — Diamonds Are Forever — Shady Tree — Film debut • 1973 — The Sting — Burlesque House Comedian • 1978 — Record City — Sickly Man • 1979 — Skatetown, U.S.A. • 1981 — Under the Rainbow — Pops — Final film

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1970 — Love, American Style — Passing Buck — Segment: "Love and the Longest Night" • 1970–1975 — The Odd Couple — Various — 5 episodes • 1972 — Evil Roy Slade — Crippled Man — TV movie • 1975 — Little House on the Prairie — Proprietor — Episode: "To See the World" • 1976 — The Tony Randall Show — Bellhop — Episode: "Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor" • 1977 — Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid — Hospital Roommate — TV movie • 1978 — Szysznyk — Leonard Kriegler • Battered — Professor Jeremiah Hayden — TV movie • 1980 — Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Comic — Pilot