Alex Paul Barris, CM (September 16, 1922 – January 15, 2004) was an American-born Canadian television actor and writer.
Member of ACTRA, he was a writer and panelist for the game show Front Page Challenge.
[1] Barris was born in New York City, and moved to Canada, residing in Scarborough, Ontario.
Barris was 81 when he died due to complications from a stroke he suffered a year earlier in Toronto, Ontario.
His son, Ted, is a retired journalism professor and author of several books.