David Joyner might not be the most recognizable name to television fans, but his work as the actor inside the suit of Barney certainly is. Joyner played the benevolent purple dinosaur on “Barney & ...

Yesterday at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo, visitors got to see the new character costume for Mattel’s all-new take on Barney. For the first time ever, a physical version of Mattel’s CG Barney made the ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- A costume shop owner was found liable of copyright infringement and ordered to pay $100,000 for renting costumes resembling Barney, a 6-foot purple dinosaur, and other characters ...

David Joyner looked back on some of the hate he received as the benevolent Barney, recalling the time he learned that the Ku Klux Klan had banned their children from watching the program after ...

We all remember Barney from our childhood (or from our own children), but like many other popular children’s characters, we wouldn’t recognize the face behind the costume. On Wednesday, journalist ...