Barry James Hickey

President at Blackmail Books
Screenwriter, Author and Producer

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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About Barry

Barry James Hickey lives in Colorado. He is originally from the south side of Chicago.

Before his film career, Barry was a touring lead singer in two bands and a stage actor in a dozen plays. He has over two thousand performances in front of live audiences to his credit.

After obtaining a B.A. at the University of Colorado, he spent 17 years in Hollywood as a an established actor starring in four feature films, while expanding his credentials as a screenwriter,, director and producer in independent films.

Barry also worked as a senior assistant for presidents and vice-presidents of production, casting and legal departments on feature films at Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures and CBS Television (MOW's and mini-series).

After he hung up his acting and singing spurs due to throat cancer, Barry started writing novels. (9 to date) All of them are available for screen adaptions and some are already spec screenplays.

Barry expects to finish his new novel Miss Queenie's Orphan Farm by the end of February and will start his next project, a limited series currently titled Grim Reapers.

Most recently he wrote a limited series TV pilot (Wolfe) based on his legal thriller The Water Lawyer which is being shopped by Voyage Media.

Barry is currently developing a Christmas musical play and film project (Uncle Egg Nog).based on his own original music and lyrics.

Available: Novels::

The Five Pearls
Chasing God's River
The Glass Fence
Waking Purgatory
The Water Lawyer.
The Pendragon Prophecy
The Mermaid Latitudes
Finding Paul Bunyan
Miss Queenie's Orphan Farm

Unique traits: Hitch-hiked 20,000 miles across America when he was young.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 8"

Weight:
150

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Salt/Pepper

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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The Five Pearls Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Family A mysterious teacher with a secret and dark past changes the lives of five angry high school students in an after-school program.
The Mermaid Latitudes Adventure ⋄ Fantasy A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat's blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle.
The Pendragon Prophecy Budget: $30M+ | Adventure ⋄ Fantasy A modern-day American farmer is the last heir to the throne of King Arthur. His misfit Knights of the Golden Prairie have one summer to prepare for The King's Challenge, a secret tournament between knights to determine the world's future and finally rid the world of wizards, monsters and magic. Will The Pendragon Prophecy be fulfilled?
Chasing God's River Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Adventure A man kayaks his way on Colorado rivers to unravel his middle-aged crisis.
The Glass Fence Budget: $5M - $10M | Mystery ⋄ Drama An ambitious female employee with wanderlust confronts a luxury hotel's entrenched management staff to start an employee rowing team and discovers things aren't what they appear to be at the fabulous resort.
Waking Purgatory Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Family The curious Lemon twins and their widowed mother quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home of Purgatory, Illinois is not the idyllic small town they thought it was. What will happen on Halloween? Is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Waking Purgatory is a riveting mystery exploding with unfulfilled family legacies soaked in despair against mankind’s obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell.
The Water Lawyer Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Crime Just out of college, a young "cowboy" attorney unravels a murder-for-hire scheme launched by his own law firm in Colorado.
Finding Paul Bunyan Budget: $10M - $30M | Family What if the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe was true? Young Billy Bunyan and his disabled brother Hap set out to discover the truth and clear their family name, bringing the giants into the modern world with unforeseen consequences no one could have imagined.

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Credits

Alice in Wasteland (2006)
Film by Pete Schuermann (Action) Actor Beautiful girls and lethal weapons go hand-in-hand in this deadly, tongue-in-cheek, women in prison escape romp through the surburban streets of Detroit.
Slipping Into Darkness (2000)
Film by Barry Hickey Actor
The Summer Intern (2000)
Film by Cheerful Pictures/Rick Zahradnik (Comedy) Actor and Producer Wayne Larson stars in this torpedo-paced comedy about a handful of slackers pitted against McDuff Ice, the FBI-and the world! The innocent intern is about to have his hottest summer ever! Written by Barry James Hickey
Road Ends (1997)
Film by Rick King (Crime and Thriller) Actor Esteban, a mysterious figure involved in a drug deal of some kind, arrives in a quiet desert town. He signs in at the local hotel using the name 'Gene Gere', which happens to be the name of an FBI agent in Los Angeles working on the same drug deal. While Gere tries to track down Esteban's whereabouts, the town's sheriff is also starting to get suspicious about the stranger's activities. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Catherine's Grove (1997)
Film (Drama) Producer Undercover cop Doyle is working on a serial killer case that's left a trail of dead transvestites. Then, moonlighting as a private eye, Doyle and his girlfriend are hired by a rich young man to find his sister. The search leads to her mysterious uncle, and the possibility of becoming the killer's next victim. Written by Anonymous
Lethal Orbit (1996)
TV Movie (Sci-Fi) Actor A group of recently trained astronauts are sent into space to probe a new experiment, only to be stranded and face an eternity in space unless successful contact can be established from earth. In between flashes of the story, a court is in process determining the cause of the accident. Written by <tgraham@currantbun.com>
Tornado Run (1995)
Film by John Sherman Actor
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Film (Comedy and Crime) Actor Oscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt. Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him -- or will a simple window shade be enough? Written by Robert Lynch <docrlynch@yahoo.com>
Forever (1993)
Film (Horror and Mystery) Actor A director of rock videos moves into the house where William Desmond Taylor, a famous director during the silent era, was murdered. He finds some old reels of film, and as he plays the film on a projector, he is visited by the ghosts of the actors and actresses in the film. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
Space Chase (1990)
Video by Nick Kimaz (Sci-Fi) Actor To rule the galaxy an evil dictator kidnaps a scientist together with his invention which will provide limitless energy for his robots.
Growing Pains (1986)
Television (Comedy and Family) Actor It's hard enough to raise a kid nowadays but when you have to cope with THESE kids, things tend to get out of hand! Dr Seaver, a psychologist and his wife Maggie Seaver, a journalist, try to do their best raising their family and although their kids, Mike, Ben, Carol and Crissie, cause them endless problems, they manage to keep the family close together. As long as they got each other, nothing else matters... Written by Xenophon Tsakanikas <ftpadmin@antigoni.med.auth.gr>
Revenge of the Stolen Stars (1986)
Film by Ulli Lommel (Adventure, Comedy and Fantasy) Actor Klaus kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the island of Sunanow, in the South China sea. The mine, and the Curse which killed his uncle, are inherited by the inept Gene who comes from San Francisco to look for the Six Stars, (missing rubies) accompanied by the lovely Kelly Scanlon and persued by the villanous Alex and Lupe. Written by Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Cagney & Lacey (1986)
Television (Crime, Drama, Mystery and Thriller) Actor Television police drama starring two female cops as partners. Their contrasting personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) strengthen them as a team, allowing each a different perspective on both personal and professional situations. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Las Vegas Weekend (1986)
Film by Dale Trevillion (Comedy) Actor Computer nerd starts winning big in Las Vegas, finds women being attracted to him.