Jered Barclay Dies: Screen & Stage Actor Who Later Voiced Roles In TV’s ‘Smurfs’ & ‘Transformers’ Was 91
deadline.comJered Barclay, a longtime stage and screen actor who found a second career as a TV voice-over artist for series including The Smurfs and The Transformers, has died.
He was 91. His longtime friend Myra Turley said Barclay died July 23 of MDS leukemia in North Hollywood, CA. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Born on November 22, 1930, in Seattle, Barclay began in show business at age 3, performing in vaudeville with the likes of Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Sammy Davis Jr.
He was doing radio at 6 and traveled with the Clyde Beatty Circus at age 12. His screen career began in the mid-1950s, including an unbilled role as a freaked-out junkie cellmate of Frank Sinatra in 1955’s The Man with the Golden Arm.
He also guested on TV’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cheyenne, The Gray Ghost and others before appearing in the 1958 Roger Corman sci-fi pic War of the Satellites.
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