Barry Pepper
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Birthplace:
Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
With cool-eyed charisma and looks suggesting he had borrowed DNA from Paul Newman and Dennis Hopper, Barry Pepper first caught the attention of audiences and critics as the Bible-quoting Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan. Before his role in the hit 1998 World War II epic, Pepper, a native of Canada, had been largely unheard of outside of his homeland. Born in Campbell River, British Columbia, on April 4, 1970, Pepper had what can only be described as a unique upbringing. When he was five years old, his parents built a boat and, setting sail with Pepper and his two older brothers, spent the next three years traveling around the world. Pepper was schooled in places as far-flung as Tahiti, Fiji, and New Zealand, and after returning to Canada, went to college to study graphic design. By his own account a poor student, Pepper dropped out of college and decided to give acting a try. He made his professional debut on the popular Vancouver TV series Madison and stayed with the show for four years. After parts in a couple of obscure films and a stint on the television series Titanic with George C. Scott, Pepper attracted the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who cast him in Saving Private Ryan. The critical and commercial success of the film put Pepper -- and several of his co-stars -- in the spotlight, and he soon had a coveted spot on the cover of Vanity Fair's 1999 Hollywood issue, alongside several other up-and-coming young actors. That same year, Pepper further enhanced his visibility with a role in the action thriller Enemy of the State. Hollywood hype being Hollywood hype, Pepper was soon being hailed as a Next Big Thing by any number of publications and his role as a prison guard in the hotly anticipated The Green Mile (1999) seemed to attest to this status. Whether the young actor really was a star in the making or not, his career had gotten off to an inarguably positive start.Over the next several years, Pepper would find success in movies like Flags of Our Fathers and True Grit, as well as the TV mini-series The Kennedys.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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82% | The Painted Bird |
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— | 2020 |
24% | Running with the Devil |
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— | 2019 |
84% | Crawl |
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— | 2019 |
43% | Maze Runner: The Death Cure |
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$57.1M | 2018 |
15% | Bitter Harvest |
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$0.6M | 2017 |
32% | Monster Trucks |
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$33.3M | 2017 |
47% | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials |
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— | 2015 |
95% | How To Change The World |
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— | 2015 |
77% | Kill the Messenger |
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$2.5M | 2014 |
30% | The Lone Ranger |
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$89.3M | 2013 |
57% | Snitch |
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$43M | 2013 |
28% | Broken City |
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$19.6M | 2013 |
95% | True Grit |
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$171.1M | 2010 |
40% | Casino Jack |
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$1.1M | 2010 |
82% | Like Dandelion Dust |
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$0.4M | 2010 |
18% | Princess Ka'iulani |
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$0.9M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story |
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— | 2010 |
27% | Seven Pounds |
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$70M | 2008 |
38% | Unknown |
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— | 2006 |
73% | Flags of Our Fathers |
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$33.6M | 2006 |
85% | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
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$5M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Ripley Under Ground |
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— | 2005 |
88% | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D |
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$32.6M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 3 |
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— | 2004 |
86% | The Snow Walker |
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— | 2003 |
78% | 25th Hour |
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— | 2003 |
21% | Knockaround Guys |
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$11.6M | 2002 |
63% | We Were Soldiers |
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$78.1M | 2002 |
85% | 61* |
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— | 2001 |
3% | Battlefield Earth |
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— | 2000 |
78% | The Green Mile |
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— | 1999 |
72% | Enemy of the State |
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— | 1998 |
93% | Saving Private Ryan |
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— | 1998 |
12% | Firestorm |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Into the Breach: 'Saving Private Ryan' |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | We All Fall Down |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Titanic |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Barbarian Princess |
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TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
All Access: Mayweather vs. Maidana
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Sentinel
1996-1999
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No Score Yet |
Viper
1994-1999
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No Score Yet |
Highlander
1992-1998
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Quotes from Barry Pepper's Characters
Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler: | I brought all the medicine I could find. |
Chirk: | I'm sorry... the gods took your father in the night. |
Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler: | (Chucks medicine over the hillside) Noooo!!!!!! |
Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler: | [chucks medicine over the hillside] Noooo! |
Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler: | Let it be said that we took this one chance, and FOUGHT! |
Joseph L. Galloway: | [Narrating] We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young. |
Joseph L. Galloway: | [narrating] We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young. |
Pvt. Jackson: | PARKER, GET DOOOOWN!!!!!!!!!! (Explosion) |
Pvt. Jackson: | Parker, get down! [explosion] |
Rip Porter: | We need to get our son back. |
"Lucky" Ned Pepper: | I call that bold talk from a one-eyed fat man. |
Pvt. Jackson: | What I mean by that, sir, is if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... with a clean line of sight... Pack your bags, fellas. War's over. Amen. |