American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954)
Lionel Barrymore
Barrymore c. 1910
Born
Lionel Herbert Blyth
(1878-04-28)April 28, 1878
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
November 15, 1954(1954-11-15) (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1893–1954
Political party
Republican
Spouses
Doris Rankin
(m. 1904; div. 1922)
Irene Fenwick
(m. 1923; died 1936)
Children
2
Parent(s)
Maurice Barrymore Georgiana Drew
Family
Barrymore
Young Lionel with John, Ethel, and their mother (1890)
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.[1] He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
^"A Man in His Life Plays Many Parts". Variety. November 17, 1954. p. 2. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
LionelBarrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director...
Blythe (aka Maurice Barrymore (1849–1905)) married Georgiana Emma Drew, and had three children: Lionel, Ethel, and John. LionelBarrymore (1878–1954) ∞ Married...
father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress...
sister of actors John and LionelBarrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore and great-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was a granddaughter of...
Maurice Barrymore, was an Indian-born British stage actor. He is the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family, and the father of John, Lionel and Ethel...
half-brother of American actress Drew Barrymore, as well as the grandnephew of Ethel Barrymore and LionelBarrymore. He is of partial Irish descent through...
of three children. His siblings were Lionel (1878–1954), and Ethel (1879–1959). His father was Maurice Barrymore, an Indian-born British actor who had...
Prague) is a 1935 American horror film, starring LionelBarrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt, and directed by Tod Browning...
Imperial Russia and stars the Barrymore siblings (John, as Prince Chegodieff; Ethel, as Czarina Alexandra; and LionelBarrymore, as Grigori Rasputin). It...
English actor, 26 year old, Maurice Barrymore, whom she married on December 31, 1876. They had three children: Lionel, Ethel, and John. She is a great-grandmother...
prologue to the 1918 silent film Treasure Island. He is portrayed by LionelBarrymore in the 1934 film adaptation of Treasure Island. In the 1967 Lost in...
his generation. Barrymore is a niece of Diana Barrymore, a grandniece of LionelBarrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, and a great-great-granddaughter...
LionelBarrymore (1878–1954), American actor Maurice Barrymore (1849-1905), forefather of the Barrymore family of American actors Michael Barrymore (born...
Star Is Born, The Fred Allen Show, the Mayor of the Town series with LionelBarrymore and Agnes Moorehead, Kraft Music Hall on NBC, Stage Door Canteen on...
provided comic relief as the son of Judge James K. Hardy, portrayed by LionelBarrymore (although former silent-film leading man Lewis Stone played the role...
and Ethel Barrymore. She was the niece of John Barrymore and LionelBarrymore and the granddaughter of Maurice Barrymore, Georgie Drew Barrymore, and Samuel...
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