Barney, played by Olin Howlin, is a character in the 1958 film The Blob.
Barney was the first person to discover the fallen meteorite that carried the sentient blob alien. He poked at it with a stick and the blob latched on. It climbed the stick and slid over his hand.
Steve Andrews and Jane Martin found him while driving along the highway. They saw he was in distress and pain because of the blob. They drove him to Dr. T Hallen so he could hopefully help him. But before Hallen could help him, the blob fully consumed and dissolved Barney entirely.