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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-02-15 (143 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John Barrymore

Biography:

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.

Known For

Acting

2021

2004

Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self / Various roles (archive footage)

2003

Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1991

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)

1983

The Horror of It All as Svengali (archive footage)

1979

The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)

1974

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)

1950

The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)

1946

Okay for Sound as Don Juan (archive footage)

1945

1943

The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)

1941

Playmates as John Barrymore
World Premiere as Duncan DeGrasse

1940

The Invisible Woman as Professor Gibbs
The Great Profile as Evans Garrick

1939

Midnight as Georges Flammarion
Land of Liberty as (archive footage)

1938

Marie Antoinette as King Louis XV
Spawn of the North as Windy Turlon
Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Colonel Neilson
Hold That Co-ed as Gabby Harrigan
Romance in the Dark as Zoltan Jason

1937

Maytime as Nicolai Nazaroff
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back as Colonel Neilson
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge as Col. J.A. Nielson
True Confession as Charles Jasper
Night Club Scandal as Dr. Ernest Tindal

1936

Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
Movie Maniacs as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)

1934

Twentieth Century as Oscar Jaffe
Long Lost Father as Carl Bellairs

1933

Dinner at Eight as Larry Renault
Counsellor at Law as George Simon
Night Flight as Riviere
Topaze as Auguste A. Topaze
Reunion in Vienna as Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg

1932

Grand Hotel as Baron Felix von Gaigern
Rasputin and the Empress as Prince Paul Chegodieff
A Bill of Divorcement as Hilary Fairfield
State's Attorney as Tom Cardigan
Arsène Lupin as Duke of Charmerace

1931

Svengali as Svengali
The Mad Genius as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov

1930

Moby Dick as Ahab
The Man from Blankley's as Lord Strathpeffer

1929

Eternal Love as Marcus Paltran
General Crack as Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
Show of Shows as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)

1928

Tempest as Sergeant Ivan Markov

1927

The Beloved Rogue as François Villon
When a Man Loves as Chevalier Fabien des Grieux

1926

Don Juan as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
The Sea Beast as Captain Ahab Ceeley

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1924

Beau Brummel as Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel

1922

Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes

1921

The Lotus Eater as Jacques Leroi

1920

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1919

Here Comes the Bride as Frederick Tile
The Test of Honor as Martin Wingrave

1918

On the Quiet as Robert Ridgeway

1917

National Red Cross Pageant as The Tyrant - Russian episode

1916

The Red Widow as Cicero Hannibal Butts
Nearly a King as Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
The Lost Bridegroom as Bertie Joyce

1915

The Incorrigible Dukane as James Dukane
The Dictator as Brooke Travers
Are You a Mason? as Frank Perry

1914

An American Citizen as Berresford Cruger

1913

One on Romance as Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)

1912

The Dream of a Moving Picture Director as The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
The Widow Casey's Return as The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
Just Pretending as The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
A Prize Package as Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)