Barney phillips

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Barney Phillips was an American film, television, and radio actor.

His father was Harry Nathan Ofner, a salesman employed in the leather industry. In , Phillips moved to Los Angeles, California, in hopes of working in the film industry. He had no other credited role in films for several years, though he had several theatrical credits. In , Phillips enlisted in the United States Army. He served in the signal corps during World War II.

Following the war, he returned to the film industry, working mostly as an extra. The first notable role of his career was the recurring character Sergeant Ed Jacob in the police procedural television series "Dragnet" He voiced the recurring character of police sergeant Hamilton J.