RAY BARRETT was an Australian actor, who starred in the Hammer horror film The Reptile. He was also the voice of John Tracy in the marionette adventure series Thunderbirds.
Barrett was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on May 2, 1927. He began acting on radio at an early age and became a familiar face on British television when he moved there in the late 1950s. He was featured in episodes of such series as The Adventures of Long John Silver, the science fiction anthology series Out of This World in the 1962 episode Dumb Martian, The Avengers, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, The Saint, and Doctor Who as Bennett in the 1965 episode The Rescue.
Barrett starred as Peter Clarke in the Scotland Yard detective series Ghost Squad from 1963 to 1964, and was oilman Peter Thornton in the adventure series The Troubleshooters from 1965 to 1972. He was also the voice of John Tracy, the Hood, and various other characters in the popular Gerry Anderson marionette series Thunderbirds from 1965 to 1966, and was Commander Sam Shore, Sub-Lieutenant John Horatio Fisher, King Titan of Titanica, and other roles in Stingray from 1964 to 1965.
Barrett starred as Harry George Spalding in the 1966 Hammer horror film The Reptile and was featured as Harry in the 1971 thriller Revenge (aka Inn of Frightened People & Terror from Under the House). He returned to Australia in the mid-1970s where he continued his acting career in such films as the classic The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) as Farrell, Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), the supernatural slasher film Contagion (1987), the Gothic horror Frenchman’s Farm (1987), and the thriller Visitors (2003).
Barrett died of a brain hemorrhage and complications from a fall in a Queensland, Australia, hospital on September 8, 2009, at age 82.
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