Biografia

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Barry worked his way through college as a canoe guide and country singer.

Director Ulli Lommel and Barry attempted to adapt Nicholas Pileggi's 'Casino' and John O'Brien's 'Leaving Las Vegas' to the screen, both projects fell through.

Wrote a script for a sequel to Ulli Lommel's Força Assassina (1980) but it was never used.

Ulli Lommel hired him to write the screen adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel 'Fools Die'. Six drafts were written before they were both satisfied with the script. But the project fell apart when they discovered another producer had been given the same rights by Puzo.

Besides a long career in film, theater and music, Barry James Hickey is a popular American novelist.

[on Ulli Lommel and Força Assassina (1980)] He's working on another Bogeyman film. I actually wrote a Bogeyman script for him a few years back. But he never used it. He keeps returning to these films because he knows the genre works and because there is a demand for it.

[on Ulli Lommel] He is probably one of the worst directors in Hollywood. Like Edward D. Wood Jr.. Ulli is a kind of simple person. He likes the simple things. He often has the ideas but not the budget to do it. I often wonder what would happen if he was given $30 million and production designers. But he's still making these movies for $15,000, $100,000, and $200,000.