Barry Pepper
When the plane carrying Charlie Halliday, a maverick bush pilot and a sick, young, Inuit woman, Kanaalaq, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature?s worst. While search parties try to find the downed plane Charlie decides to trek over land, promising the woman that he will return with help.1
As a producer, Berry Pepper produced (also acted) in the wide screen adventure Snow Walker (2003) and the television film 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004). In addition to producing films, fans can also catch Barry in the recent and forthcoming films Ripley Under Ground (2005), Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) and the thriller Unknown (2006).2
A pilot who delivers supplies to tribes in the backwoods of the Canadian north is implored to escort a sick young Inuit woman to a hospital. On the flight back, the plane’s engine fail and they crash in the wastelands.3
A man has one day to put his life in order before a long stretch in prison in this drama directed by Spike Lee. Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is a man who came from a working class family in New York.4
Barry is in fact nominated for the Screen Actors Guild award along with the other cast members of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. He also earned the award of Breakout Performance of the Year for his role in the WW11 movie of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.5
“He was grass-roots and he never forgot it, and the fans saw him as one of them, one of them who was able to fulfill his dreams, one who made it,” Pepper said. “Nobody could beat him, and that gave him the edge, that one-tough-customer persona that he had.”6