Our favorite purple dinosaur is back on the small screen, but this time in documentary form. Peacock announced on Nov. 15 that it had started production on a three-part Peacock Original documentary ...

Barney the Dinosaur gets 1,500 fan letters a week, and he hasn’t even been on TV. Until now. The singing purple dinosaur, star of eight “Barney & the Backyard Gang” videotapes since 1988, came to PBS ...

He’s purple and green, soft and round, 6-feet-4-inches tall — and he’s the hottest thing in children’s TV. After only seven months on the air, Barney the dinosaur, star of PBS’ “Barney & Friends,” is ...

W hen the people at Connecticut Public Television first started talking about “Barney & Friends,” their new children’s show for PBS starring a 6-foot-tall purple dinosaur, some predicted it could be ...

Between 1991 and 2001, David Joyner and Carey Stinson wore the Barney suit. David Joyner later played the role of Hip Hop Harry. He also works as a tantric massage therapist outside of acting. Carey ...

David Joyner, 61, was the actor behind the iconic purple dinosaur Barney and spent over 10 years playing the character from 1991 to 2001, and he had a very different job in the past.

He has a fixed, goofy grin, a pudgy green belly and bright yellow toenails that clash with his purple “skin.” And with a 6-foot-tall body mounted on short, plump legs, he moves with a clunky waddle.