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person_profile-John Barrymore

John Barrymore Died at age: 60

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Feb 15, 1882

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 29, 1942

Biography of

John Barrymore

    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.

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Filmography of

John Barrymore

Found 74 Movies in total

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

The Casting Couch

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

The Horror of It All

Svengali (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1983

The Horror Show

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1979

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

It's Showtime

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1974

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1972

Hollywood My Home Town

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1961

Yesterday and Today

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1953

The Golden Twenties

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1950

Playmates

John Barrymore ( Actor )

... 1941

World Premiere

Duncan DeGrasse ( Actor )

... 1941

The Invisible Woman

Professor Gibbs ( Actor )

... 1940

The Great Profile

Evans Garrick ( Actor )

... 1940

Land of Liberty

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1939

Midnight

Georges Flammarion ( Actor )

... 1939

The Great Man Votes

Vance ( Actor )

... 1939

Hold That Co-ed

Gabby Harrigan ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

King Louis XV ( Actor )

... 1938

Spawn of the North

Windy Turlon ( Actor )

... 1938

Romance in the Dark

Zoltan Jason ( Actor )

... 1938

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Colonel Neilson ( Actor )

... 1938

True Confession

Charles Jasper ( Actor )

... 1937

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Col. J.A. Nielson ( Actor )

... 1937

Night Club Scandal

Dr. Ernest Tindal ( Actor )

... 1937

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Colonel Neilson ( Actor )

... 1937

Maytime

Nicolai Nazaroff ( Actor )

... 1937

Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio ( Actor )

... 1936

Twentieth Century

Oscar Jaffe ( Actor )

... 1934

Long Lost Father

Carl Bellairs ( Actor )

... 1934

Counsellor at Law

George Simon ( Actor )

... 1933

Dinner at Eight

Larry Renault ( Actor )

... 1933

Night Flight

Riviere ( Actor )

... 1933

Reunion in Vienna

Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg ( Actor )

... 1933

Topaze

Auguste A. Topaze ( Actor )

... 1933

Rasputin and the Empress

Prince Paul Chegodieff ( Actor )

... 1932

A Bill of Divorcement

Hilary Fairfield ( Actor )

... 1932

Grand Hotel

Baron Felix von Gaigern ( Actor )

... 1932

State's Attorney

Tom Cardigan ( Actor )

... 1932

Arsène Lupin

Duke of Charmerace ( Actor )

... 1932

The Mad Genius

Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov ( Actor )

... 1931

Svengali

Svengali ( Actor )

... 1931

Moby Dick

Ahab ( Actor )

... 1930

The Man from Blankley's

Lord Strathpeffer ( Actor )

... 1930

General Crack

Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian ( Actor )

... 1929

Show of Shows

Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

Eternal Love

Marcus Paltran ( Actor )

... 1929

Tempest

Sergeant Ivan Markov ( Actor )

... 1928

When a Man Loves

Chevalier Fabien des Grieux ( Actor )

... 1927

The Beloved Rogue

François Villon ( Actor )

... 1927

Don Juan

Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana ( Actor )

... 1926

The Sea Beast

Captain Ahab Ceeley ( Actor )

... 1926

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Beau Brummel

Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel ( Actor )

... 1924

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes ( Actor )

... 1922

The Lotus Eater

Jacques Leroi ( Actor )

... 1921

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde ( Actor )

... 1920

The Test of Honor

Martin Wingrave ( Actor )

... 1919

Here Comes the Bride

Frederick Tile ( Actor )

... 1919

On the Quiet

Robert Ridgeway ( Actor )

... 1918

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

A.J. Raffles ( Actor )

... 1917

National Red Cross Pageant

The Tyrant - Russian episode ( Actor )

... 1917

The Red Widow

Cicero Hannibal Butts ( Actor )

... 1916

The Lost Bridegroom

Bertie Joyce ( Actor )

... 1916

Nearly a King

Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana ( Actor )

... 1916

The Incorrigible Dukane

James Dukane ( Actor )

... 1915

The Dictator

Brooke Travers ( Actor )

... 1915

Are You a Mason?

Frank Perry ( Actor )

... 1915

The Man from Mexico

Fitzhugh ( Actor )

... 1914

An American Citizen

Berresford Cruger ( Actor )

... 1914