Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies.
Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Sal...
Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies.
Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He retired from movies in 1935 and died two years later.
Seven Chances
Souls for Sale
Village Tale
It's a Gift
Life Begins at Forty
See My Lawyer
Aloha
Chicago
A Trip to Paramountown
Hollywood
Wide Open
Is Matrimony a Failure?
Dangerous Curves
Carnival
Kansas City Princess
Sally
Ladies of Leisure
Too Much Wife
Young Ideas
Don't Get Personal
Adam and Eva
Doubting Thomas
The Virginia Judge
A Blonde for a Night