Barry Avrich

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barry Avrich
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1963(1963-05-09)
Age	61
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Taurus

Barry Avrich Biography

Barry Avrich is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on May 9, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Avrich was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Irving Avrich, a garment industry executive, and Faye Avrich, a housewife. His parents immersed him in the arts as a child. In school, Avrich produced talent shows and started experimenting with films. While attending Vanier College, he gravitated to the film program and while there, he produced many films. in 1980, he moved to Toronto where he continued to study film, art and theatre at both Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and the University of Toronto. While in school, Avrich started Rent-A-Fan Club, a company that offered “celebrity status” to people as a novelty by using his fellow acting students to create fan clubs. Soon after graduating, Avrich made two short films that would get him noticed: The King of Yorkville (1985) was a satirical parody of the 1980s dating scene that was picked up by local television stations in Canada, and The Madness of Method (1995), featuring M. Emmet Walsh, won a Gold Medal at the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films.

Avrich began a marketing career in 1985 at Borden Advertising where he worked on national campaigns for the Canadian original production of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. In 1989, Avrich joined Echo Advertising where he became partner and eventually CEO. While at Echo, Avrich and his staff developed award-winning international campaigns for such clients such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Rolling Stones, American Express, Sprint and for Broadway productions such as Ragtime, Show Boat, Fosse, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Canadian productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Misérables. Avrich left Echo in 2005 after it was sold to a UK-based marketing firm and he started a boutique advertising agency. In 2009, Avrich won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award.

Barry Avrich Net Worth

Barry Avrich is one of the richest Film Director from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barry Avrich 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Barry Michael Avrich (born May 9, 1963) is a Canadian film director, film producer, author, marketing executive, and arts philanthropist. Avrich’s film career has included critically acclaimed films about the entertainment business including The Last Mogul about film producer Lew Wasserman (2005), Glitter Palace about the Motion Picture Country Home (2005), and Guilty Pleasure about the Vanity Fair columnist and author Dominick Dunne (2004). In addition, Avrich produced the Gemini-nominated television special Caesar and Cleopatra (2009) with Christopher Plummer. Avrich also produced Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame Awards (2015) as well as the Canadian Screen Awards (2015-2017) and The Scotiabank Giller Prize (2015-2019).

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Who is Barry Avrich Dating?

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Barry Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Barry Avrich celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.