Barry Dorgan

Barry Dorgan is one of the villains of the 1994 Stephen King Horror, The Stand.



He is a polite but ass kicking former detective of the police department in Santa Monica, California, US. Although he is an ally of Randall Flagg, Dorgan does so only because he thinks Flagg's world is the only society with a chance of regaining a sense of law and order, but Dorgan soon loses faith in Flagg's society and remains in Las Vegas because Flagg will murder him if he leaves. One of the few mentally stable members of Flagg's police, Dorgan is one of the sentries who intercepts Larry Underwood, Glen Bateman, and Ralph Brentner, who are all surprised by Dorgan's sympathetic nature but make it clear his rational views do not excuse or exculpate his service on behalf of the truly evil people he reports to. Dorgan stands guard over Underwood and Brentner shortly before their planned executions and is eventually killed by the Trashcan Man's nuclear bomb.

In the miniseries, Dorgan is portrayed by Chuck Adamson.