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:
- 64
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Just Pretending 1912-07-05
- 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 | Okay for Sound | Don Juan (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
| 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 | Midnight | Georges Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
| Movie | The Green Goddess | Himself (rumored) | 1939-06-06 |
| Movie | Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Colonel Neilson | 1938-03-18 |
| Movie | Hollywood Goes to Town | Self | 1938-07-07 |
| Movie | Spawn of the North | Windy Turlon | 1938-08-26 |
| Movie | Hold That Co-ed | Gabby Harrigan | 1938-09-16 |
| Movie | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XV | 1938-08-26 |
| 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 | Reunion in Vienna | Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg | 1933-06-16 |
| Movie | Topaze | Auguste A. Topaze | 1933-02-24 |
| Movie | Night Flight | Riviere | 1933-10-06 |
| Movie | Dinner at Eight | Larry Renault | 1933-12-22 |
| Movie | Counsellor at Law | George Simon | 1933-12-25 |
| Movie | State's Attorney | Tom Cardigan | 1932-05-20 |
| Movie | Grand Hotel | Baron Felix von Gaigern | 1932-05-25 |
| Movie | Arsène Lupin | Duke of Charmerace | 1932-02-26 |
| Movie | A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield | 1932-09-28 |
| Movie | Rasputin and the Empress | Prince Paul Chegodieff | 1932-12-23 |
| 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 | On the Quiet | Robert Ridgeway | 1918-09-01 |
| Movie | Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman | A.J. Raffles | 1917-12-14 |
| Movie | Nearly a King | Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana | 1916-01-20 |
| Movie | The Lost Bridegroom | Bertie Joyce | 1916-03-20 |
| Movie | One on Romance | Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore) | 1913-04-14 |
| Movie | Just Pretending | The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore) | 1912-07-05 |
| Movie | A Prize Package | Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore) | 1912-08-05 |