John Barrymore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack. A member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Barrymore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Feb 15, 1882 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 58
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman 1917-12-14
- Latest Project:
- Movie Complicated Women 2003-05-06
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| Movie | The Horror of It All | Svengali (archive footage) | 1983-02-23 |
| Movie | The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979-02-06 |
| Movie | It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
| Movie | Inside Daisy Clover | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1965-12-22 |
| Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | The Golden Twenties | Self (archive footage) | 1950-04-08 |
| Movie | World Premiere | Duncan DeGrasse | 1941-08-21 |
| Movie | Playmates | John Barrymore | 1941-12-26 |
| Movie | The Great Profile | Evans Garrick | 1940-08-30 |
| Movie | The Invisible Woman | Professor Gibbs | 1940-12-28 |
| Movie | The Great Man Votes | Vance | 1939-01-13 |
| Movie | The Green Goddess | Himself (rumored) | 1939-06-06 |
| Movie | Midnight | Georges Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
| Movie | Hollywood Goes to Town | Self | 1938-07-07 |
| Movie | Spawn of the North | Windy Turlon | 1938-08-26 |
| Movie | Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Colonel Neilson | 1938-03-18 |
| Movie | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XV | 1938-08-26 |
| Movie | Hold That Co-ed | Gabby Harrigan | 1938-09-16 |
| Movie | Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Colonel Neilson | 1937-09-24 |
| Movie | Maytime | Nicolai Nazaroff | 1937-03-26 |
| Movie | Bulldog Drummond's Revenge | Col. J.A. Nielson | 1937-12-16 |
| Movie | Night Club Scandal | Dr. Ernest Tindal | 1937-11-11 |
| Movie | True Confession | Charles Jasper | 1937-12-24 |
| Movie | Movie Maniacs | Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited) | 1936-02-20 |
| Movie | Long Lost Father | Carl Bellairs | 1934-01-19 |
| Movie | Twentieth Century | Oscar Jaffe | 1934-05-11 |
| Movie | Topaze | Auguste A. Topaze | 1933-02-24 |
| Movie | Reunion in Vienna | Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg | 1933-06-16 |
| Movie | Night Flight | Riviere | 1933-10-06 |
| Movie | Counsellor at Law | George Simon | 1933-12-25 |
| Movie | Dinner at Eight | Larry Renault | 1933-12-22 |
| Movie | Arsène Lupin | Duke of Charmerace | 1932-02-26 |
| Movie | State's Attorney | Tom Cardigan | 1932-05-20 |
| Movie | Rasputin and the Empress | Prince Paul Chegodieff | 1932-12-23 |
| Movie | Grand Hotel | Baron Felix von Gaigern | 1932-05-25 |
| Movie | A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield | 1932-09-28 |
| Movie | Svengali | Svengali | 1931-05-20 |
| Movie | The Mad Genius | Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov | 1931-09-30 |
| Movie | The Man from Blankley's | Lord Strathpeffer | 1930-03-28 |
| Movie | Moby Dick | Ahab | 1930-09-20 |
| Movie | Eternal Love | Marcus Paltran | 1929-05-11 |
| Movie | Show of Shows | Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
| Movie | General Crack | Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian | 1929-12-16 |
| Movie | The Circus: Premiere | Self | 1928-01-13 |
| Movie | Tempest | Sergeant Ivan Markov | 1928-05-27 |
| Movie | The Beloved Rogue | François Villon | 1927-03-12 |
| Movie | When a Man Loves | Chevalier Fabien des Grieux | 1927-08-21 |
| Movie | Vagabonding On The Pacific | Himself | 1926-01-01 |
| Movie | Don Juan | Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana | 1926-08-06 |
| Movie | The Sea Beast | Captain Ahab Ceeley | 1926-01-15 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
| Movie | Beau Brummel | Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel | 1924-03-30 |
| Movie | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1922-03-07 |
| Movie | The Lotus Eater | Jacques Leroi | 1921-11-27 |
| Movie | Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman | A.J. Raffles | 1917-12-14 |