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
It's a Gift
A Trip to Paramountown
Women of All Nations
Is Matrimony a Failure?
Life Begins at Forty
Hollywood
Exit the Vamp
Doubting Thomas
The Great White Way
Carnival
A Blonde for a Night
Souls for Sale
A Kiss in Time
See My Lawyer
Don't Get Personal
How's My Baby?
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Adam and Eva
The Virginia Judge
Kansas City Princess
The Four Star Boarder
Chicago