Question: Facts: - death place: silver lake , los angeles , california , u.s. - years active: 1956 -- 1978 - caption: brown chris von wangenheim shortly after they appeared together in robert -lrb- benton 's '' bad company '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- right -rrb- with jeff bridges photographed by - death date: 25 june 1978 - spouse: jennie vlahos march 1972 may 1972 - birth date: 19 april 1951 - name: barry brown - birthname: donald barry brown - image: jeff bridges and barry brown.jpg - birth place: san jose , california , u.s. - occupation: author , playwright , actor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of barry brown -lrb- actor -rrb- .
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barry brown -lrb- april 19 , 1951 -- june 25 , 1978 -rrb- was an american author , playwright and actor who performed on stage and in television dramas and feature films , notably as frederick winterbourne in peter bogdanovich 's '' daisy miller '' -lrb- 1974 -rrb- , adapted from the classic henry james novella -lrb- 1878 -rrb- .bogdanovich praised brown 's contribution to the film , describing him as '' the only american actor you can believe ever read a book . ''