It’s pretty hard to talk about Chris Barnes without also mentioning “Bad News Bears” and “Tanner Boyle,” which is kind of a shame because Chris did a lot of other equally good work in nearly two decades in front of the cameras. Unfortunately, most of his features were done for TV and the "educational market" and haven’t been seen much in the past twenty or so years. This is the first site to talk about - and let you see - “the other stuff.”
Anyone who caught these other shows saw the same natural, gut-level young actor who brought us the brilliantly dysfunctional Tanner. Bears. Hopefully you’ll get a better look at this mysterious figure and see the diversity of which he was capable as an actor and get a sense of the human being behind those different roles - which is why the site is called “Beyond Tanner.”
They also saw a broad range


Anyone who caught these other shows saw the same natural, gut-level young actor who brought us the brilliantly dysfunctional Tanner.
In more recent years, Chris has become almost as famous for his total inaccessibility as for that one character he played all those years ago. That more than anything, I think, is what really got me interested in this project. I hadn’t even thought about the BNB movies for years, then I stumbled onto a website about them and it all came back to me. I rented the first movie and was surprised to discover that it was even better than I’d remembered. But more interesting was finding out that Chris Barnes not only wanted nothing to do with his Bears past, but had managed to elude publicity so well that even the media didn’t know where he was. We’ll get back to that a little more on another page.
In more recent years, Chris has become almost as famous for his total inaccessibility as for that one character he played all those years ago. That more than anything, I think, is what really got me interested in this project. I hadn’t even thought about the BNB movies for years, then I stumbled onto a website about them and it all came back to me. I rented the first movie and was surprised to discover that it was even better than I’d remembered. But more interesting was finding out that Chris Barnes not only wanted nothing to do with his Bears past, but had managed to elude publicity so well that even the media didn’t know where he was. We’ll get back to that a little more on another page.
In more recent years, Chris has become almost as famous for his total inaccessibility as for that one character he played all those years ago. That more than anything, I think, is what really got me interested in this project. I hadn’t even thought about the BNB movies for years, then I stumbled onto a website about them and it all came back to me. I rented the first movie and was surprised to discover that it was even better than I’d remembered. But more interesting was finding out that Chris Barnes not only wanted nothing to do with his Bears past, but had managed to elude publicity so well that even the media didn’t know where he was. We’ll get back to that a little more on another page.