Barry Brown was born on 19 April 1951 in San Jose, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Bad Company (1972), Piranha (1978) and Daisy Miller (1974). He died on 27 June 1978 in Silver Lake, California, USA.
In August of 2003 his brother, James Brown, published "The Los Angeles Diaries," a memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family troubled by crime, alcoholism, drug abuse and the ultimate suicides of his two siblings, Barry Brown and Marilyn Brown, the latter having killed herself by jumping from a bridge into a concrete Los Angeles river bed.