Biography
In films from 1938's
Tenth Avenue Kid, American actor Paul Bryar remained a durable character player for over thirty years, usually in police uniform. Among his screen credits were
Follow Me Quietly (1949),
Dangerous When Wet (1952),
Inside Detroit (1955) and
The Killer is Loose (1956). He also showed up in one serial, Republic's
Spy Smasher (1942), and was a regular in Hollywood's B factories of the 1940s (he made thirteen pictures at PRC Studios alone, three of them "Michael Shayne" mysteries). Television took advantage of Bryar's talents in a number of guest spots, including the unsold pilot
The Family Kovack (1974). He had somewhat better job security as a regular on the 1965 dramatic series The Long Hot Summer, playing Sheriff Harve Anders, though he and everyone else in the cast (from
Edmond O'Brien to
Wayne Rogers) were back haunting the casting offices when the series was cancelled after 26 episodes. One of Paul Bryar's last screen appearances was as one of the card players (with future star
Sam Elliott) in the opening scene of
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide