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
CMH Heli-Skiing title sequence on YouTube Hot dogging and Chamonix film clips at nuitdelaglisse.com