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Chris Barber profile
Actor

Chris Barber

Acting

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Acting credits

8

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.3

Low visibility

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Movies: 7Series: 3Crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 48875

IMDb ID: nm0053364

Known for: Acting

Born: April 17, 1930

Died: March 2, 2021

Age: 90

Place of birth: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1948 - 2019

Years active: 72

Average TMDB rating: 6.7

Wikidata: Q491092

Other jobs

Additional Soundtrack (1)Original Music Composer (1)

Biography

Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930) is a British jazz musician, best known as a bandleader andtrombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singerOttilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line", while with Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and "beat boom" of the 1960s.

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