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name: "Barry Greenhouse"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barry-greenhouse"
fi1m_id: "barry-greenhouse"
imdb_id: "nm3072748"
tmdb_id: 81435
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:01:18.541907+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Barry Greenhouse

## Identity

Barry Greenhouse

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/barry-greenhouse
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** barry-greenhouse
- **IMDb ID:** nm3072748
- **TMDB ID:** 81435
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3072748/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81435

Actor.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3072748/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81435

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Man on Wire*](https://film.one/film/man-on-wire.md) (90)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Barry Greenhouse is an insurance official who appeared as himself in the 2008 documentary *Man on Wire*, directed by James Marsh.

While working as assistant director of research for the New York State Insurance Department on the 82nd floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center, Greenhouse assisted Philippe Petit with access and other support for his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers. He had previously seen Petit perform in Paris.

*Sources: theguardian.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, businessinsurance.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Man on Wire* (2008), Fi1m 90, as Himself — [page](https://film.one/film/man-on-wire.md)

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