Barry Corbin
Acting
🎂 1940-10-16
Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spot, In the Valley of Elah), comedies (Any Which Way You Can, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stir Crazy) and Westerns (Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon), often as a sheriff, military leader, or other authority figure.
Cast credits(191)
Ross
2018
Merle Tucker
2009
Mr. Gilford
2017
Clifford Calvert
1971
Babe
2022
Fire Chief (voice)
1997
Lt. Lou Flannigan
1984
Everett Acker
2015
Billy Joe
2006
Percival Bertram
1995
Sheriff Fenton Washburn
1978
Whitey Durham
2003
J.J. Kincaid
1983
Clay Johnson
2005
1986
Stuart Ryder
2020
Chuck Fifer
1995
Ernie
2010
1972
1981
1979
Ben Crowder
1993
Ellis
2007
Maurice Minnifield
1990
Carlton Powers
1995
(segment "Dead Run")
1985
Peter Noland
1996
Peter Noland (archive footage)
1996
Jack Penney
1994
JV
2001
Undertaker Turton
2023
Dale
2016
Ed
2012
Pete
1983
1986
General Beringer
1983
Ol' Jammer (voice)
2014
Wickes
1998
Roscoe Brown
1989
Sheriff
1990
Officer Don
1991
Uncle Sammy (voice)
1994
Buster Shaver
2014
Burt Hamilton
1984
Warden Walter Beatty
1980
C.D. LeBlanc
1996
Grandpa Max Tennyson
2010
2000
Harv
1988
Mr. Jenkins
1985
Jimminy 'Lucky' Faro
2007
Arnold Bickman
2007
Sheriff Walter Moncrief
2001
Self
2005
C.J.
1982
Tony
1999
Elmore
1954
Officer Warner
1989
1982
Capt. Johnson
1986
P.J. Downing
1989
Fat Zack
1980
Jim Sinclair
1988
Phil
1981
Gerald
Roy Carr
1983
Max
1987
Charlie McCloud, Stage Driver
1991
Oscar
2016
Clifton Lundegren
2015
Ed
2010
Walter
2018
Walt Warner / Jenell's Pa
1987
Mr. Emery Collins
1990
Ray Jennings
2012
Onlooker on Ladder (uncredited)
1974
Uncle Bob
1980
Cotton Clayton
2002
Franz Grebner
1984
Forrest
2017
Andrew Woolridge
1986
Terry Don
Grandpa
2006
Bob the Storekeeper
2003
Gil
1988
Big Mac McCleary
1988
Judge Smith
2011
Lew Harlan
1985
Jake Rawlins
2013
Senator Frank Rawlings
2005
Sheriff Buck Taylor
2019
Farmer
2010
Arnspriger
1982
Sergeant Irwin Lee
1987
Naylor
1982
Gus Lobell
1981
Dr. Agajanian
1981
Sheriff Breen
2003
George Lawrence
1988
Lodger
1996
Wimbish
1981
Dr. Clayman
1995
Noah
2019
Frank Hadley
1999
Dan Pendleton
1996
Axel Andersen
2011
Malcolm Bryce
1988
Lt. Fletcher
1981
Wade Haygood
2015
Senator Dorm
2004
Jim Heusdens
1985
Pastor
2005
Itchy
2010
Merit Sawyer
1983
Bunky Munster
1985
Frank Burton
1986
Capt. Bob Berg
1990
Nick Hanson
1981
Lester Galloway
Floyd Carpenter
1986
Sam Miller
2017
General Clyde Haynes
1996
Pete Williams
2016
Sheriff
2006
Virgil Blessing
1982
Uncle Dennis
2009
2001
Bob Austin
1982
Chief Burns
2013
Captain
1990
1989
Pembry
1999
Grandfather
2012
Haas
2009
Gil Denton
2016
Mike Hadley
1997
Resident #5
1980
Bentick
1989
Gene Taggart
2011
1986
Robert Blister
1997
Colonel
1984
Charlie Ledbetter
2001
Wink 'Pop' Blake
1999
Bode Warden
2013
B. R. Abernathy
1983
Lyndon Johnson
2003
Leonard
2014
Elmore
1987
Sheriff Hack Ames
1983
Buck Baker
2008
Danny Brown
2017
1987
Thurl Chessor
2009
Sheriff 'Buster' Watkins
2005
Grismer
2021
Mr. Potter
1995
Sheriff
1982
Henry Spangler (voice)
Self
2015
Sheriff Joe Webster
2001
Dist. Atty. McMasters
1981
Cowden Brooks
2022
Mr. Jenkins
1986
The Director
1986
Judge
1984
Marshall John Llewellyn
1995
George
2008
Chief Doyle
2019
Gary
2018
Larry Korchinsky
2017
Wallis
1991
George Reed
1996
Stokey Andrews
1975
Buckaloo
1992
Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
1994
Judge Alvin J. Wirtz
1987
2025
Les
2011
Deakin
2011
Grandpa Joe
2021
Buford Pike
2006
Shorty
2002
Narrator / Deke Slayton (voice)
1994
Leon Redden
1985
Walker
2012
John April
2020
Judge Rodgers
2011
Hap
2018
Cyrus
2014
Narrator
2014