Barry Lee Pearl (born March 29, 1950, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.
[1] He is best known for his role as "Doody", one of the three supporting T-Birds, in the 1978 film version of Grease.
Pearl was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to an Orthodox Jewish family.
Despite growing up Orthodox Jewish, he celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas as a child as 2 of his aunts were married to Christians.
[3] He played "Professor Tinkerputt" in the primetime special Barney's Imagination Island and the US tour of Barney's Big Surprise, a stage production based on the popular TV show as well as a video of the same name.