Dick Barrymore

Dick Barrymore (October 21, 1933 in Los Angeles – August 1, 2008 in Ketchum, Idaho) was an American ski film maker of the 1960s and 1970s and an advocate of "hot dogging" (early freestyle skiing).

Films

• Ski West, Young Man (1960)
• High Skis (1961)
• Some Like It Cold (1962)
• The White Search (1963)
• Winter Spell (1965)
• A Cool Breath of Fresh Air (1966)
• The Secret Race (1966)
• Last of the Ski Bums (1967)
• The Tenth Winter (1968)
• The Spider and the Frenchman (1969)
• Once in a Lifetime (1970)
• Here Come the K2 Skiers (1970)
• The Performers (1972) short
• Winter Heat (1973) short

• Day of Greatness (1974)
• Mountain High (1974)
• Assignment K2 (1975)
• White Horizons (1975)
• Blazing Skis (1976)
• High Cost of a Free Ride (1977)
• Wild Skis (1978)
• Vagabond Skiers (1979)
• Heli-Skiing (1979) short
• 20 Years of Skiing (1980)
• A Bit of Madness (1981) short
• Canadian Mountain Odyssey (1981) short
• Scandinavian Ski Safari (1987) short
• The Golden Years of Ski Films (1997)

Books

• Memoir.

See also

• Wet T-shirt contest—Barrymore claims to have held the first.

References

• Lund, Morten (Nov 1969) "Dick Barrymore, we ask you--are you making it?" Ski Vol. 34, No. 3:150-8
• Richey, Edward (2006) Living it Up in Aspen pg 126
• "Sun Valley in the '70s" The Ski Journal vol 6 #3 ISSN 1935-3219

External links

• Obituary
• Dick Barrymore at IMDb
• CMH Heli-Skiing title sequence on YouTube
• Hot dogging and Chamonix film clips at nuitdelaglisse.com