Barry ZeVan was born on August 5, 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Television: The First Fifty Years (1999), Hiding Victoria (2006) and In an Instant (2015). In the 1970s, ZeVan was the Channel 7 weatherman in Washington, D.C., and later on Channel 11 in Minneapolis during the 1980s.

He was married to Ellen Hanson-Zevan, with whom he had one child. ZeVan died on January 1, 2020 in Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA.