John Barrymore
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Don Juan
1926
as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
Grand Hotel
1932
as Baron Felix von Gaigern
Moby Dick
1930
as Ahab
It's Showtime
1976
as Self (archive footage)
Land of Liberty
1939
as (archive footage)
Spawn of the North
1938
as Windy Turlon
Romeo and Juliet
1936
as Mercutio
Arsène Lupin
1932
as Duke of Charmerace
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
as Prince Paul Chegodieff
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Midnight
1939
as Georges Flammarion
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
The Great Profile
1940
as Evans Garrick
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Twentieth Century
1934
as Oscar Jaffe
Movie Maniacs
1936
as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
A Bill of Divorcement
1932
as Hilary Fairfield
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
Marie Antoinette
1938
as King Louis XV