Lionel Barrymore
Actor
- Born
- April 28, 1878 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- November 15, 1954 (age 76)
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains best 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 MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
December 20, 1946
Key Largo
July 16, 1948
You Can't Take It with You
September 1, 1938
Grand Hotel
September 11, 1932
Duel in the Sun
December 31, 1946
Captains Courageous
June 25, 1937
Camille
December 26, 1936
Mark of the Vampire
April 26, 1935
Dinner at Eight
December 22, 1933
The Devil-Doll
July 10, 1936
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
December 25, 1925
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
October 31, 1912
Acting246
- 2008Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You as Self (archive footage)
- 2005Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2004Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
- 2003The Mesmerist as The Innkeeper (archive footage)
- 2003Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
- 2002D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1986Super Duper Bloopers as Self
- 1976That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)