Bernard Barrow; Actor in ‘Ryan’s Hope’

Bernard Barrow, 65, stage, screen and television actor best known as Johnny Ryan on the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope.” A native New Yorker who began his career as a child actor on radio, Barrow held a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, a master’s from Columbia University and a doctorate from the Yale School of Drama. He taught drama and theater at Brooklyn College for nearly 30 years and directed summer stock and community theater. Popular in such off-Broadway plays as “Serpico” and “Rachel, Rachel,” Barrow also appeared in the television soap operas “Where the Heart Is,” “The Secret Storm” and “The Edge of Night” before becoming the patriarch of “Ryan’s Hope” from 1975 to 1988. In 1991, he won an Emmy as best supporting actor in the role of Louie Slavinsky on “Loving.” On Wednesday in New York of lung cancer.