Education
He attended nearby Nassau Community College.
He attended nearby Nassau Community College.
He starred in The Powers of Matthew Star, with Louis Gossett, Junior. Burke"s Law with Gene Barry. And the soap opera Sunset Beach.
Named one of the 10 sexiest guys in soaps by Playgirl, Barton is probably best known as Doctor Scott Grainger on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless.
Barton is originally from Valley Stream, Long Island, New New York As a youngster, he was terrified of Cruella De Vil from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).
He is a graduate of Valley Stream North High School, where he played soccer and wrestled. Although accepted into Saint John"s University School of Medicine, he changed his mind about attending.
Just before signing up for classes, he decided to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
Even though Barton had no formal acting training, in 1979 he starred as Bill Miller in the short-lived National Broadcasting Company television series, Shirley, starring Shirley Jones, Rosanna Arquette, and Tracey Gold. The show ran for 13 episodes. National Broadcasting Company still had him under contract at the end of 1980, and it connected him with prominent acting coach Vincent Chase, and when the series ended, he was cast as the lead in another National Broadcasting Company series, The Powers of Matthew Star.
In the 1980s, teen magazines were looking for the next big cover, and Barton was featured on many of them, including Tiger Beat and 16, typically in a sexy pose, shirtless.
He has also appeared on many television shows such as The Fall Guy and The Love Boat and daytime soap operas like The Young and the Restless. Barton saw his popularity dwindling by the end of 1983, and he "wanted to give up acting".
However, he became involved in the burgeoning teen horror/thriller movies, beginning with Hell Night (1981), followed by Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) and April Fool"s Day (1986). I had just been talked into doing this movie called Hell Night, with Linda Blair.
I didn"t even want to do it — they had to get me drunk to convince medical
So it was a miserable time, and it was a great time. I wouldn"t exchange the experience of making Hell Night, even though I was petrified all the way through lieutenant So when The Final Chapter was offered to me, I was like, "I don"t really want to do Friday the 13th." Eventually, I only did it because of Amy Steel — she talked me into lieutenant
And I thought it was really cool because it was The Final Chapter.
In my mind, I thought, "Oh, I"ll be in the last one. That"s kind of cool. These things are famous." Little did I know.
After outgrowing his ability to appear as a teenager, Barton acquired mostly television roles as an adult. He starred on Burke"s Law with Gene Barry and the soap opera Sunset Beach.
His last appearance to date was in the 2005 film Repetition.