John Barrymore
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John Barrymore

Feb 15, 1882 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie1920Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Movie1934Twentieth CenturyOscar Jaffe
Movie1939MidnightGeorges Flammarion
Movie1932Grand HotelBaron Felix von Gaigern
Movie1979The Horror Show(archive footage)
Movie1940The Invisible WomanProfessor Gibbs
Movie1932Rasputin and the EmpressPrince Paul Chegodieff
Movie1912The Dream of a Moving Picture DirectorThe Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
Movie1912The Widow Casey's ReturnThe Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
Movie1912Just PretendingThe Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
Movie1912A Prize PackageSi Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
Movie1913One on RomanceJack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
Movie1914The Man from MexicoFitzhugh
Movie1915The DictatorBrooke Travers
Movie1915The Incorrigible DukaneJames Dukane
Movie1938Marie AntoinetteKing Louis XV
Movie1916The Red WidowCicero Hannibal Butts
Movie1918On the QuietRobert Ridgeway
Movie1937MaytimeNicolai Nazaroff
Movie1919Here Comes the BrideFrederick Tile
Movie1919The Test of HonorMartin Wingrave
Movie1936Romeo and JulietMercutio
Movie1936Movie ManiacsPhotograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Movie1974The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster SaluteSelf (archive footage)
Movie1953Yesterday and Today(archive footage)
Movie1937Bulldog Drummond Comes BackColonel Neilson
Movie1931SvengaliSvengali
Movie1933Dinner at EightLarry Renault
Movie1927Life in Hollywood No. 4
Movie1932A Bill of DivorcementHilary Fairfield
Movie1933Counsellor at LawGeorge Simon
Movie1922Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes
Movie1961The Legend of Rudolph ValentinoSelf (archive footage)
Movie1933Night FlightRiviere
Movie1938Spawn of the NorthWindy Turlon
Movie1928TempestSergeant Ivan Markov
Movie1926Don JuanDon Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
Movie1929Eternal LoveMarcus Paltran
Movie1927The Beloved RogueFrançois Villon
Movie1937Bulldog Drummond's RevengeCol. J.A. Nielson
Movie1927When a Man LovesChevalier Fabien des Grieux
Movie1972Hollywood: The Dream FactorySelf (archive footage)
Movie1932State's AttorneyTom Cardigan
Movie1924Beau BrummelGordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
Movie1937True ConfessionCharles Jasper
Movie1938Bulldog Drummond's PerilColonel Neilson
Movie1931The Mad GeniusVladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Movie1940The Great ProfileEvans Garrick
Movie1932Arsène LupinDuke of Charmerace
Movie1917National Red Cross PageantThe Tyrant - Russian episode
Movie1933TopazeAuguste A. Topaze
Movie1926Vagabonding On The PacificHimself
Movie1933Reunion in ViennaArchduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
Movie1917Raffles, the Amateur CracksmanA.J. Raffles
Movie1930Moby DickAhab
Movie1926The Sea BeastCaptain Ahab Ceeley
Movie1941PlaymatesJohn Barrymore
Movie1934Long Lost FatherCarl Bellairs
Movie1938Hold That Co-edGabby Harrigan
Movie1945Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th AnniversarySelf (archive footage)
Movie1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)Self (archive footage)
Movie1929General CrackDuke of Kurland / Prince Christian
Movie2004Checking Out: Grand HotelSelf / Various roles (archive footage)
Movie1929The Show of ShowsRichard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Movie1984Going Hollywood: The '30s(archive footage)
Movie1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie1983The Horror of It AllSvengali (archive footage)
Movie1939The Great Man VotesVance
Movie1928The Circus: PremiereSelf
Movie1939Land of Liberty(archive footage)
Movie1950The Golden TwentiesSelf (archive footage)
Movie1937Night Club ScandalDr. Ernest Tindal
Movie1941World PremiereDuncan DeGrasse
Movie1930The Man from Blankley'sLord Strathpeffer
Movie1921The Lotus EaterJacques Leroi
Movie1938Hollywood Goes to TownSelf
Movie2003Complicated WomenSelf (archive footage)
Movie1976That's Entertainment, Part II(archive footage)
Movie1938Romance in the DarkZoltan Jason
Movie1946Okay for SoundDon Juan (archive footage)
Movie1943The Voice That Thrilled the WorldSelf (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Movie1916Nearly a KingJack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
Movie1916The Lost BridegroomBertie Joyce
Movie1976It's ShowtimeSelf (archive footage)
Movie1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the ChristChariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Movie1933Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and VHamlet
Movie1914An American CitizenBerresford Cruger
Movie1915Are You a Mason?Frank Perry
Movie1991Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made RadioHamlet (archive sound)
Movie2021Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. LeyendeckerArchival Footage

Crew

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