Ernestine Barrier
Ernestine Barrier was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her birth name was Ernestine Spratt, but she used the stage name of Ernestine De Becker. She is noted for playing a female president in the film Project Moonbase. Descended from an acting family, Barrier made her first stage appearance at the age of roughly six months when she was carried onstage by her mother Ernestine De Becker, also an actress.
Barrier acted into her eighties appearing on such television shows as Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, and The Waltons and the television film A Family Upside Down with Helen Hayes and Fred Astaire. Her feature film appearances include Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas, and The Bottom of the Bottle with Van Johnson and Joseph Cotten.
She is also remembered for her work in the 1930s on Broadway where she appeared under the name Ernestine De Becker in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and Late One Evening by Audrey Carten and Waveney Carten. In 1946, she returned to Broadway appearing with her husband Edgar Barrier in On Whitman Avenue. She was survived by her son, the former actor Michael Barrier, and her granddaughter Maerian Morris.
