Biography
Barry Miller has played leads and supporting roles on stage, screen, and television. In movies, he made his debut at age 16 playing the younger version of notorious gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (played by
Tony Curtis). One of his best-known film roles is that of the depressed Bobby C., who drunkenly falls off the Verrazano Narrow Bridge after accidentally impregnating a girl in
Saturday Night Fever (1977). Miller debuted on Broadway in 1980 and five years later earned a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for his role in
Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1985). The son of actors
Sidney Miller and
Dorothy Green, Miller is frequently cast in "ethnic" roles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide