Barry Sonnenfeld is an executive producer of both the film and TV series adaptations of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
In the TV series, he also directed several of the episodes and portrays Ike Anwhistle, as well as the voice of "Mr. Tamerlane" in The Austere Academy: Part One. In The Hostile Hospital: Part Two, a woman is named after him with the anagram Barney N. Dolfners.
Cameos[]
In each book adaptation, he has a cameo in some art such as a painting or a statue.[1]
- The Bad Beginning: A painting in Justice Strauss' library.
- The Reptile Room: A painting on Monty's wall.
- The Wide Window: Ike Anwhistle in Josephine Anwhistle's library.
- The Austere Academy: Sir Barrymore Feint in Nero's office.
- The Ersatz Elevator: A painting in the Squalor's formal, semi-formal and informal dining rooms. He is wearing different clothes in all of them.
- The Vile Village: In the village's fire department.
- The Hostile Hospital: On a cranioectomy poster.
- The Carnivorous Carnival: On art on a tent, picturing him with the Volunteer Feline Detectives. He also plays Ike Anwhistle in a flashback.
- The Slippery Slope: On art on another tent at the top of Mount Fraught.
- The Grim Grotto: Captain Widdershins painting, as well as on the wasabi label.
- The Penultimate Peril: A bust on one of the floors, as well as in a painting in the Indian restaurant.
- The End: In a painting above the juke box in the soda shop and his fireman portrait reappears in the Island arboretum.