John Barrymore
Born: 1882-02-15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1942-05-29
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
2021
- Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage
2015
- Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
2005
- Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1995
1991
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio as Hamlet (archive sound)
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
- The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1961
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
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
- Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary as Self (archive footage)
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
- World Premiere as Duncan DeGrasse
- Playmates as John Barrymore
1940
- The Invisible Woman as Professor Gibbs
- The Great Profile as Evans Garrick
1939
- Midnight as Georges Flammarion
- The Great Man Votes as Vance
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- The Green Goddess
1938
- Marie Antoinette as King Louis XV
- Spawn of the North as Windy Turlon
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Colonel Neilson
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- Hold That Co-ed as Gabby Harrigan
- Romance in the Dark as Zoltan Jason
1937
- Maytime as Nicolai Nazaroff
- Night Club Scandal as Dr. Ernest Tindal
- Bulldog Drummond's Revenge as Col. J.A. Nielson
- True Confession as Charles Jasper
- Bulldog Drummond Comes Back as Colonel Neilson
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
- Night Flight as Riviere
- Topaze as Auguste A. Topaze
- Counsellor at Law as George Simon
- Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V as Hamlet
- Reunion in Vienna as Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
1932
- Grand Hotel as Baron Felix von Gaigern
- Rasputin and the Empress as Prince Paul Chegodieff
- Arsène Lupin as Duke of Charmerace
- A Bill of Divorcement as Hilary Fairfield
- State's Attorney as Tom Cardigan
1931
- The Mad Genius as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
- Svengali as Svengali
1930
- Moby Dick as Ahab
- The Man from Blankley's as Lord Strathpeffer
1929
- The Show of Shows as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
- General Crack as Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
- Eternal Love as Marcus Paltran
1928
- The Circus: Premiere as Self
- Tempest as Sergeant Ivan Markov
1927
- The Beloved Rogue as François Villon
- When a Man Loves as Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
- Life in Hollywood No. 4
1926
- Don Juan as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
- The Sea Beast as Captain Ahab Ceeley
- Vagabonding On The Pacific as Himself
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
- The Test of Honor as Martin Wingrave
- Here Comes the Bride as Frederick Tile
1918
- On the Quiet as Robert Ridgeway
1917
- Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman as A.J. Raffles
- National Red Cross Pageant as The Tyrant - Russian episode
1916
- The Lost Bridegroom as Bertie Joyce
- Nearly a King as Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
- The Red Widow as Cicero Hannibal Butts
1915
- Are You a Mason? as Frank Perry
- The Dictator as Brooke Travers
- The Incorrigible Dukane as James Dukane
1914
- The Man from Mexico as Fitzhugh
- An American Citizen as Berresford Cruger
1913
- One on Romance as Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
- Just Pretending as The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
- A Prize Package as Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
- 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)