John Barrymore
Birthday: 1882-02-15 | Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAJohn 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Archival Footage
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
as Hamlet (archive sound)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as John Barrymore
as Professor Gibbs
as Georges Flammarion
as Colonel Neilson
as Gabby Harrigan
as King Louis XV
as Windy Turlon
as Charles Jasper
as Col. J.A. Nielson
as Colonel Neilson
as Nicolai Nazaroff
as Mercutio
as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
as Oscar Jaffe
as George Simon
as Larry Renault
