Barry Gettleman is the son of the notable actress and comedian Estelle Getty and her husband, Arthur Gettleman. He was born on July 25 of the year 1923. As of this year, Barry Gettleman would be 99 years of age. He has a brother named Carl Gettleman and is known for his famous Intimate Portrait, produced in 1990.
His birthplace is unknown, but he was raised and lived in the United States of America, and hence his nationality by birth is American. He has a net worth of $1.9 Million, most of which he has earned from his work in the Intimate Portrait tv series documentary with his mother, Estelle Getty. His other work and awards are still not known.
About Barry’s mother
Getty was acquainted with Arthur Gettleman; she used his last name in the New York Theatre Circuit, a party thrown by her friends. Nine months following the event, on December 21st, 1947, they got married and had Barry and Carl Gettleman.
After marriage, they moved to Oakland Gardens, located in Queens, after living in the Bronx for a while and giving birth to both their sons. They lived in a liberal-disapproved of helpful work for World War II Jewish veterans called Bell Park Gardens.
In contrast, Arthur helped his father-in-law with his glass establishment company. Both lived independently for quite a while during the 80s and 90s before Getty moved to California.
Arthur and the golden girls wished to fly from New York and kept working in the glass business owned by the family. They stayed wedded until her husband Arthur’s demise on September 24, 2004, when he was 85 years old.
HIV/AIDS activism
Getty was described by his colleagues, Rosie O’Donnell and Harvey Fierstein, both remarkable individuals from LGBTQ community groups, that Getty had been intensely engaged with activism regarding HIV/AIDS as she lost a lot of loved family and friends to the illness, including Steven Scher, her nephew that she eagerly focused on as he got diagnosed to suffer from HIV/AIDS.
She opened an institute in Greensboro, North Carolina, merely for HIV/AIDS patients close to her nephew’s old neighborhood, called the Beacon Place, in 1996, which was still active in 2021.