Barry William Blenkhorn (born September 30, 1954), known professionally as Barry Williams, is an American actor best known for his role as Greg Brady in the ABC television series The Brady Bunch. Image File history File links Bradybunchdvdseason4. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The following is a list of characters from the American television series The Brady Bunch. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The Brady Bunch is an American television situation comedy, based around a large blended family. ...

Williams was born in Santa Monica, California to Doris May Moore and Canadian-born Frank Millar Blenkhorn.^[1] He decided as a very young child that he wanted to be an actor, and in 1967 he made his television debut in an episode of Dragnet. He played guest roles in That Girl, Mission Impossible and The Mod Squad before being cast as Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch sitcom in 1969. As the eldest of the kids, his storylines often involved his many romances, and as the Greg character reached his mid-teens the show's producers began to groom and promote Williams as a teen idol. For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ... The year 1967 in television involved some significant events. ... Dragnet opening frame from the 1967 version. ... That Girl was a television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. ... Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ... The Mod Squad was a television police drama from executive producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas in the United States, that ran on ABC from 1968-1973. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The year 1969 in television involved some significant events. ... For other uses, see Teen idol (disambiguation). ...

With the show's demise in 1974, Williams was unable to attract the type of high profile roles that might have expanded on his earlier success. He resumed playing guest roles on television, and became involved in musical theatre, touring with productions such as Grease, The Sound of Music and West Side Story, as well as making unsuccessful attempts to establish a career as a recording artist. However he was later able to capitalize on his type-cast of being "Greg Brady". His 1992 autobiography Growing Up Brady spent three months on the New York Times bestseller list. The year 1974 in television involved some significant events. ... The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in history Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. ... Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. ... The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ... For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg is an autobiography by Barry Williams. ... The New York Times bestseller list is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ...

In 2000 Williams was involved in a notorious dispute with Actors' Equity Association, the union which represents stage actors. An Equity member since 1974, Williams signed with Troika Productions to play the male lead in a non-union tour of The Sound of Music. Equity objected to this, saying that the tour was being marketed as a "Broadway" production (which would imply union talent) and that the musicians and stagehands were all members of their respective unions--the only non-union talent were the actors, who received sub-standard pay and no benefits (required by any union contract). Williams's pay was of course commensurate with his star status--in essence, Williams was being paid star wages at the expense of his fellow actors. Equity subsequently fined Williams two weeks of his tour salary, and he responded by complaining to the National Labor Relations Board. The fine remains unpaid as of yet. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Actors Equity Association (commonly simply Equity) is the trade union of American theatrical performers and stage managers. ... A trade union or labour union is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the United States Government charged with conducting elections for union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. ...

Always proud of his success with The Brady Bunch, Williams has appeared in various Brady TV movie reunions, including the hit 1988 Christmas movie "A Very Brady Christmas" where his sole family problem is missing his wife, Nora. His problem is solved when Nora shows up at the Brady house on Christmas with a poinsettia in hand. He also has built a cabaret act that pays tribute to his past, and has played himself in the film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003), which is about a former child star who finds himself out of work. In 2000, when Eminem had a hit with "The Real Slim Shady," Williams released his own parody version, "The Real Greg Brady." Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ... See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 2000s in music. ... Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ... // The song is a parody of manufactured pop songs that were being churned out at the time. ...

In 2001-2002 Barry played Manager Dean "The Machine" Strickland in 13 episodes of the TV sitcom S Club 7 in Hollywood which featured the British pop group S Club 7. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... S Club 7 (later re-named S Club after the departure of Paul Cattermole from the band) were an English pop group created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who rose to fame via their own BBC television programme. ...

Williams appeared briefly as an audience member in the music video of Peter Gabriel's song "The Barry Williams Show" (2002). Gabriel said that he hadn't known about Williams when he wrote the song, but he was asked to do a cameo anyway. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950, in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. ...

Williams participated in a Celebrity Boxing match with former Partridge Family TV star Danny Bonaduce, but lost to Bonaduce, who is a martial arts black belt. Celebrity Boxing was a 2002 Fox show pitting washed up former celebrities against each other in a boxing match. ... Opening title card The Partridge Family was an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who traveled around in a very colorful bus to different venues to perform songs. ... Danny Bonaduce (pronounced ), born Dante Daniel Bonaduce, August 13, 1959 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, is an American comedian, actor, radio personality, and television personality. ...

Barry also appeared with his former Brady Bunch co-star Christopher Knight (Peter Brady) on a 2006 episode of the Fox network sitcom That '70s Show. He and Knight played a gay couple who moved in next door to the Formans. He and Knight have remained close friends since their Brady Bunch days, and he appeared in several episodes of Knight's reality show series My Fair Brady. Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor best known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series, The Brady Bunch. ... Peter Brady, played by Christopher Knight, was the middle son on the TV show The Brady Bunch. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... That 70s Show is an American television sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in Point Place, Wisconsin, a fictional suburb of Kenosha, Wisconsin[1][2] from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979. ... My Fair Brady is a Celebreality show on VH1 that follows Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch, and Adrianne Curry, who won the first season of Americas Next Top Model, a year after they met and fell in love on The Surreal Life. ...

Barry Williams currently hosts The Brady Brunch with Barry Williams Sundays through Fridays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius Satellite Radio's "Totally '70s" channel. Metronome, a public art installation showing the time in New York City The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. ... Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services operating in the United States and Canada, along with XM Satellite Radio. ...

He often takes part in the annual "World's Largest Disco" event in Buffalo, NY where he dances. Williams is now divorced from his second wife and has a son named Brandon born in 2003. See Buffalo for other places with this name. ...

Awards

• WINS
  • 1989 Young Artist Awards - Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award
• NOMINATIONS
  • 2003 TV Land Awards - Hippest Fashion Plate - Male
  • 2004 TV Land Awards - Favorite Fashion Plate - Male
  • 1997 TV Land Awards - Cleanest Hair Award - Female
  • 1999 Nick at Night Awards - Best Interpretation of a Female by a Male - Male
  • 1993 Special Olympics - Pole Vault - Runner Up - Male

Footnotes

External links

• Official site
• Barry Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• Sirius "Totally '70s" home page