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John Barrymore

Acting · Born February 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.

Movies with John Barrymore

• Grand Hotel (1932) — Baron Felix von Gaigern
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
• Dinner at Eight (1933) — Larry Renault
• That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) — (archive footage)
• Marie Antoinette (1938) — King Louis XV
• Maytime (1937) — Nicolai Nazaroff
• The Invisible Woman (1940) — Professor Gibbs
• Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) — Col. J.A. Nielson
• Arsène Lupin (1932) — Duke of Charmerace
• Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972) — Self (archive footage)
• Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984) — (archive footage)
• Twentieth Century (1934) — Oscar Jaffe