Cary Guffey

Known for Acting

5/10/1972(Age 53)

Douglasville, Georgia, USA

Biography

Cary Guffey (born May 10, 1972) is an American former child actor and financial planner. He is best known for his debut in the role of Barry Guiler in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Known For (11 credits)

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

6.9

Movie

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

2001

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

7.4

North and South

1985

The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

6.1

Movie

Poison Ivy

1985

Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.

6.2

Movie

The Bear

1984

Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama

5.2

Movie

Night Shadows

1984

When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!

7.9

Chiefs

1983

Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?

6.6

Movie

Cross Creek

1983

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

5.0

Movie

Stroker Ace

1983

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

6.1

Movie

Why Did You Pick On Me?

1980

Following the events of The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, Sheriff Hall and H-725 (using the official identity of Charlie Warren) still get no rest from the military - because the little alien has not yet grasped the meaning of keeping a low profile. They are constantly on the move, and H-725's father has had to pick them out of a tight spot too many times already.

6.4

Movie

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid

1979

A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."

7.3

Movie

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.