John Barrymore
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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.
Known for
Credits
Grand Hotel (1932)
as Baron Felix von Gaigern
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Moby Dick (1930)
as Ahab
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Mercutio
It's Showtime (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Arsène Lupin (1932)
as Duke of Charmerace
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2015)
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
The Great Profile (1940)
as Evans Garrick
Movie Maniacs (1936)
as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Reunion in Vienna (1933)
as Rudolf von Hapsburg
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
as Col. J.A. Nielson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie (2015)
as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
as Larry Renault
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as King Louis XV
The Casting Couch (1995)
Actor
Here Comes the Bride (1919)
as Frederick Tile
Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
Okay for Sound (1946)
as Don Juan (archive footage)
Maytime (1937)
as Nicolai Nazaroff
State's Attorney (1932)
as Tom Cardigan
Twentieth Century (1934)
as Oscar Jaffe
National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
as The Tyrant - Russian episode
Spawn of the North (1938)
as Windy Turlon
The Invisible Woman (1940)
as Professor Gibbs
Land of Liberty (1939)
as (archive footage)
The Sea Beast (1926)
as Captain Ahab Ceeley
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
as Colonel Neilson
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
as George Simon
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
as Prince Paul Chegodieff
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
as A.J. Raffles
Midnight (1939)
as Georges Flammarion
Are You a Mason? (1915)
as Frank Perry
When a Man Loves (1927)
as Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
Svengali (1931)
as Svengali
Night Flight (1933)
as Riviere
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974)
as Self (archive footage)
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'
The Horror of It All (1983)
as Svengali (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
The Great Man Votes (1939)
as Vance
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
as Hilary Fairfield
Just Pretending (1912)
as The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
An American Citizen (1914)
as Berresford Cruger
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
The Man from Mexico (1914)
as Fitzhugh
Life in Hollywood (1927)
as Self
The Green Goddess (1939)
Actor
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
as Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Don Juan (1926)
as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
as Colonel Neilson
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
True Confession (1937)
as Charles Jasper
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
as Hamlet (archive sound)
The Man from Blankley's (1930)
as Lord Strathpeffer
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (2021)
as Archival Footage
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
World Premiere (1941)
as Duncan DeGrasse
The Dream of a Moving Picture Director (1912)
as The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
Night Club Scandal (1937)
as Dr. Ernest Tindal
Hold That Co-ed (1938)
as Gabby Harrigan
The Mad Genius (1931)
as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Playmates (1941)
as John Barrymore
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Tempest (1928)
as Sergeant Ivan Markov
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)
as Self (archive footage)
Eternal Love (1929)
as Marcus Paltran
Romance in the Dark (1938)
as Zoltan Jason
The Incorrigible Dukane (1915)
as James Dukane
Topaze (1933)
as Auguste A. Topaze
Nearly a King (1916)
as Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
The Circus: Premiere (1928)
as Self
The Test of Honor (1919)
as Martin Wingrave
The Red Widow (1916)
as Cicero Hannibal Butts
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
as Sherlock Holmes
Long Lost Father (1934)
as Carl Bellairs
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V (1933)
as Hamlet
Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927)
Actor
On the Quiet (1918)
as Robert Ridgeway
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
as François Villon
The Golden Twenties (1950)
as Self (archive footage)
Yesterday and Today (1953)
as (archive footage)
General Crack (1929)
as Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
Beau Brummel (1924)
as Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
A Prize Package (1912)
as Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
One on Romance (1913)
as Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
The Widow Casey's Return (1912)
as The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
Vagabonding On The Pacific (1926)
as Himself
The Lost Bridegroom (1916)
as Bertie Joyce
The Dictator (1915)
as Brooke Travers
The Lotus Eater (1921)
as Jacques Leroi