Biography
Tom Barry was an American screenwriter, playwright and vaudeville sketch writer. Born Hal Donahue on 31 July 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, he worked in the theatre before entering the film industry in the late 1920s.
Barry is credited with the adaptation and dialogue for In Old Arizona (1928), the first major sound Western, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing. He earned a second nomination for The Valiant (1929). His other screen credits include Under Suspicion (1930), Over the Hill (1931) and East Lynne (1931).
He died of a heart attack on 7 November 1931 in Los Angeles, California, aged 46.
