Biography
Walter Lee Barnes was an American football guard and actor who played in National Football League (NFL) for four seasons. He played in the (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and in college at Louisiana State University. Barnes was an actor in both American and European films. He appeared in several films with John Wayne, Lex Barker, and Clint Eastwood. Barnes entered acting after appearing several times on The Eagles Nest, a local Philadelphia television show. WCAU television placed him on sever...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Smokey Bites the Dust
1981
as Sheriff Turner
Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daught...

Bronco Billy
1980
as Sheriff Dix
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Power
1980
as Al Grove
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...

The Sky Trap
1979
as Harry Shaughnessy
A young man in Arizona, in trying to save his mother’s business, takes off in a sailplane and finds a secret landing strip. He finds that it is being ...

Every Which Way but Loose
1978
as Tank Murdock
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora...

The Young Runaways
1978
as Sgt. Abel
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their ...

Pete's Dragon
1977
as Captain
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken ...

Another Man, Another Chance
1977
as Foster
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west...

Day of the Animals
1977
as Ranger Tucker
The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers w...

Mackintosh and T.J.
1975
as Jim Webster
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.

The Blue Knight
1975
as Personnel Officer
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of h...

Escape to Witch Mountain
1975
as Sheriff Purdy
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of ...

Hog Wild
1974
as Tobias
A Chicago man and his family move to an Idaho pig farm, where he's crippled by an angry sow.

Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
as Sheriff Grady
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want...

Daddy's Deadly Darling
1973
as Doctor
The owner of a roadside diner and his new helper kill people and feed them to pigs.

High Plains Drifter
1973
as Sheriff Sam Shaw
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ...

Movin' On
1972
as Mr. Daniels
A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.

The Christian Licorice Store
1971
as P.C. Stayne
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

The Traveling Executioner
1970
as Sheriff
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading cond...

Coup D'Etat
1969
as (uncredited)
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Inter...

The Magnificent Tony Carrera
1969
as Barnes
Tony Carrera is a successful race car driver who was also a great safe-cracker. He gets roped into doing one more big job but finds out too late he's ...

The Moment to Kill
1968
as Bull
Two famous gunmen, Lord and Bull are called to a southern western town by a judge to retrace a gold reserve, worth $500.000 which was hidden in the la...

Garter Colt
1968
as General Droga
At the border with Mexico, a brave young woman defends herself from the attack of the fearsome bandit, "Red", mastering a gun and the game of poker. F...

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield
1968
as Fred Lancaster
Inspector Blomfield catches a thief who has a fatal accident while trying to escape in his car. A short time later, his drug-addicted brother Johnny e...

Halleluja for Django
1967
as Key Jarrett / Clay Thomas
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to ...

Liebesnächte in der Taiga
1967
as Jurij
A US agent is supposed to find out details about a missile base in Siberia. The mission fails, although the American remains alive thanks to the help ...

Target Frankie
1967
as Col. O’Connor
Frankie Bargher is hired by the government to pose as his own brother who became a target for two groups of evil agents.

Clint the Stranger
1967
as Walter Shannon
Clint Harrison is a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns to his home town to discover that his wife has tak...

The Big Gundown
1967
as Brokston
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Winnetou and the Crossbreed
1966
as Mac Haller
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping ...

Duel at Sundown
1965
as Old McGow
During a cattle drive, Don McGow leaves the herd in charge of his younger brother and rides off. When the herd is reported stolen he blames himself an...

Rampage at Apache Wells
1965
as Bill Campbell
'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at S...

Challenge of the Gladiator
1965
as Nero
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary treasure. He is accompanied by his daughter Livi...

Frontier Hellcat
1964
as Martin Baumann Sr.
Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace.

Apache Gold
1963
as Bill Jones
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang ...
Revenge of the Musketeers
1963
as Porthos

Slave Girls of Sheba
1963
as Friar Metachini
Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also b...

Sign of Zorro
1963
as Mario
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his fat...

Avenger of the Seven Seas
1962
as Van Artz
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, q...

Queen of the Seas
1961
as Captain Poof
Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.

Romulus and the Sabines
1961
as Stilicone
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there ...

Drakut the Avenger
1961
as Nicolas

The Secret of the Blue Men
1961
as Matthias
An adventurer intends to seize the fabulous treasure of the Tuaregs. But when he falls in love with a beautiful Indian woman, he ends up defending the...

The Secret of the Black Falcon
1961
as Calico Jack
A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. The English commissioned a notorious pirate and the Spa...

Robin Hood and the Pirates
1960
as Guercio / Orbo
On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.

Westbound
1959
as Willis - Stage Depot Cook
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to ...

Rio Bravo
1959
as Charlie (uncredited)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the broth...

Revolt in the Big House
1958
as Guard Capt. Starkey
A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

Oregon Passage
1957
as Sgt. Jed Erschick
A cavalry lieutenant becomes a hated enemy of a Shoshone chief, Black Eagle, when he rescues an Indian maid from a ceremonial camp in this action-pack...