From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Barry Dennen born February 22 1938 is an American actor singer and writer Dennen was born in Chicago Illinois In New York City from 1960 to 1963 he had a relationship with Barbra Streisand including living together for a year during which time he helped her develop the nightclub act that began her successful career as a singer and actress He moved to London for fifteen years and in 1968 landed the starring role of the master of ceremonies in the London version of Cabaret In 1970 he played Pontius Pilate on the album of Jesus Christ Superstar and he played the same role in the Broadway production 1971 In the same year he played Mendel in Norman Jewisons film of Fiddler on the Roof According to Dennens website he suggested to Jewison that he direct a film of Superstar Jewison did so and Dennen played Pilate again 1973 He was the voice actor who portrayed the Chamberlain SkekSil in The Dark Crystal He has also done voice work on such cartoons as DuckTales Batman The Animated Series The Pirates of Dark Water Animaniacs and Avatar The Last Airbender Since that time Dennen has had a variety of small parts on American television shows and films including Batman Superman III The Kentucky Fried Movie The Shining Galtar and the Golden Lance Tales from the Darkside and Titanic He played auto dealer Irwin Lapsey in Shock Treatment the sequel toThe Rocky Horror Picture Show He has also done voices for many video games including Fatman in Metal Gear Solid 2 Police Chief Bogen in Grim Fandango Mimir in the recent video game Too Human Dean Domino in Fallout New Vegas expansion Dead Money and the Dark One in The Mark of Kri He wrote the screenplay for an episode of Amazing Stories titled The Secret Cinema 1985 and cowrote an episode of The Comic Strip Presents titled Demonella 1993 His autobiographical book My Life With Barbra A Love Story 1997 deals with their relationship and with his gradual realization that he was a homosexual Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Dennen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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