- In 1959, upon his return from military service in Algeria, he filmed his first important role in L'Eau à la bouche by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze . The following year, he succeeded Jean Marais in L'Aigle à deux têtes , a play by Jean Cocteau which, fourteen years after its creation, was revived at the Sarah-Bernhardt theater , still with Edwige Feuillère .
- Gérard Barray excelled in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total he appeared in a dozen feature films of that genre, most of which were box-office successes, widely known abroad.
- Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse.
- For Claude Berri he played in "Le Cinéma de papa" (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos as Devernois, a TV man.
- Gérard Barray married in July 1965at the town hall of Montauban the dancer and actress Teresa Lorca He met her on the set of "Mercenaries of the Rio Grande".
- In 2018, he published a novel: The Artist: the bride was still sleeping, published by Christian Navarro.
- He moved to Spain in the 1990s, appearing in a few films and television series.
- Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noël Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury Prize.
- Gérard Barray made his stage debut in 1955 in Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde at the Hébertot theater.
- Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.
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