Background
Barber was born in Johannesburg.
Barber was born in Johannesburg.
He was educated at King David School, Linksfield in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Since 2010 Barber is chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He then received an Accounting degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Afterwards he worked as a Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant in South Africa and the United States, both with Price Waterhouse.
In the mid 1980s Barber became an United States citizen.
In 1998 he and Roger Birnbaum founded Spyglass Entertainment in Los Los Angeles His highest grossing film as producer was The Tourist, which grossed close to United States$280 million at the worldwide box office.
In December 2010 Barber became Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Under his leadership Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer together with Eon Productions and Sony Pictures financed the successful James Bond film Skyfall, which grossed United States$1,1 billion.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer then also financed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 21 Jump Street and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer then finally moved forward with remakes of RoboCop and Poltergeist. Barber is also a Thoroughbred racehorse owner. Barber has three daughters and lives in Los Los Angeles
He is also co-founder of Spyglass Entertainment. In 1982 the horse racing fan won a trip to the Arlington Million race in Illinois. His horse, The Deputy, owned in partnership with Team Valor, won the 2000 running of the Grade II Santa Catalina Stakes and the Grade I Santa Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. In 2006 another of his horses, Becrux, also owned in partnership with Team Valor, won the Grade I Woodbine Mile at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada.
