John Barrymore
Age: N/A | From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: John Sidney Blyth , Jack Barrymore , John Sidney Blythe Barrymore
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Movie Involvements: 61
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Grand Hotel
(1932) Baron Felix von Gaigern
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1920) Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
(1937) Col. J.A. Nielson
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925) Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet
(1936) Mercutio
Marie Antoinette
(1938) King Louis XV
When a Man Loves
(1927) Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
(1938) Colonel NeilsonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Self / Various roles (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1995 | (archive footage) | |
| 1984 | (archive footage) | |
| 1983 | Svengali (archive footage) | |
| 1979 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1974 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1972 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1961 | 'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1953 | (archive footage) | |
| 1950 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1946 | Don Juan (archive footage) | |
| 1945 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1943 | Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage) | |
| 1942 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1941 | John Barrymore | |
| Duncan DeGrasse | ||
| 1940 | Professor Gibbs | |
| Evans Garrick | ||
| 1939 | (archive footage) | |
| Georges Flammarion | ||
| Vance | ||
| 1938 | Gabby Harrigan | |
| King Louis XV | ||
| Windy Turlon | ||
| Self | ||
| Zoltan Jason | ||
| Colonel Neilson | ||
| 1937 | Charles Jasper | |
| Col. J.A. Nielson | ||
| Dr. Ernest Tindal | ||
| Colonel Neilson | ||
| Nicolai Nazaroff | ||
| 1936 | Mercutio | |
| Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | Oscar Jaffe | |
| Carl Bellairs | ||
| 1933 | George Simon | |
| Larry Renault | ||
| Riviere | ||
| Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg | ||
| Hamlet | ||
| Auguste A. Topaze | ||
| 1932 | Prince Paul Chegodieff | |
| Hilary Fairfield | ||
| Baron Felix von Gaigern | ||
| Tom Cardigan | ||
| Duke of Charmerace | ||
| 1931 | Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov | |
| Svengali | ||
| 1930 | Ahab | |
| Lord Strathpeffer | ||
| 1929 | Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian | |
| Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited) | ||
| Marcus Paltran | ||
| 1928 | Sergeant Ivan Markov | |
| Self | ||
| 1927 | N/A | |
| Chevalier Fabien des Grieux | ||
| François Villon | ||
| 1926 | Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana | |
| Captain Ahab Ceeley | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1925 | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | |
| 1924 | Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel | |
| 1922 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 1921 | Jacques Leroi | |
| 1920 | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | |
| 1919 | Martin Wingrave | |
| Frederick Tile | ||
| 1918 | Robert Ridgeway | |
| 1917 | A.J. Raffles | |
| The Tyrant - Russian episode | ||
| 1916 | Cicero Hannibal Butts | |
| Bertie Joyce | ||
| Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana | ||
| 1915 | James Dukane | |
| Brooke Travers | ||
| Frank Perry | ||
| 1914 | Fitzhugh | |
| Berresford Cruger | ||
| 1913 | Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore) | |
| 1912 | Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore) | |
| The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore) | ||
| The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore) | ||
| The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
