Professional Motion Picture Production and Distribution NEWS
Film Festival to Honor Actor Barry Corbin with a Lifetime Achievement Award
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Sep 12, 2011, 13:29
Emmy nominated actor Barry Corbin will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6th Annual Estes Park Film Festival on September 17th during a special ceremony in his honor at the Historic Park Theatre.
Organizers of the Estes Park Film Festival recently announced that actor Barry
Corbin will be their featured guest and recipient of their Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 6th annual event.
(Estes Park, CO) Emmy nominated actor Barry Corbin will be presented with a
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6th Annual Estes Park Film Festival on September
17th during a special ceremony in his honor at the Historic Park Theatre. The
award ceremony will also include a twenty minute film retrospective of Corbin’s
work and a lively question and answer session with the audience.
With more than one hundred film and television credits, Corbin may be best-known
for his role as the crusty ex-astronaut Maurice Minnifield on the CBS series
Northern Exposure. He is also well remembered as General Beringer in WarGames,
John Travolta's uncle in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any
Which Way You Can, and Roscoe Brown in the acclaimed western Lonesome Dove.
Recently, Barry had a memorable role in 2008's Oscar-winning film No Country
for Old Men.
In real life Barry is a horseman and a cattleman, and in 2009 he was inducted
in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Currently Barry is guest starring in four
episodes of the TNT series The Closer.
Resources:
http://www.barrycorbin.com/
www.studentfilmmakers.com © 2004-2005. All rights reserved.
A division of Welch Integrated, Inc.