Lionel Barrymore
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Born: 1878-04-28
Died: 1954-11-15
Occupations recorded in source
actor; composer; director; film actor; film director; musician; screenwriter; stage actor; television presenter
Biography from Wikipedia
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; 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 is 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- The Road to Glory (1936) — Papa La Roche / Private Morin
- The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
- Ah, Wilderness! (1935) — Nat Miller
- David Copperfield (1935) — Dan'l Peggotty
- Mark of the Vampire (1935) — Professor Zelen
- Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
- The Little Colonel (1935) — Colonel Lloyd
- The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)
- Carolina (1934)
- The Girl from Missouri (1934) — T.R. Paige
- This Side of Heaven (1934)
- Treasure Island (1934) — Billy Bones
- Dinner at Eight (1933) — Oliver Jordan
- Looking Forward (1933)
- Night Flight (1933) — Robineau
- One Man's Journey (1933)
- Should Ladies Behave (1933)
- Sweepings (1933)
- The Stranger's Return (1933) — Grandpa Storr
- Arsène Lupin (1932) — Detective Guerchard
- Broken Lullaby (1932) — Dr H. Holderlin
- Grand Hotel (1932) — Otto Kringelein
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932) — Grigori Rasputin
- The Washington Masquerade (1932)
- A Free Soul (1931) — Stephen Ashe
- Guilty Hands (1931) — Richard Grant
- Mata Hari (1931) — General Serge Shubin
- The Yellow Ticket (1931)
- The Mysterious Island (1929)
- Drums of Love (1928) — Herzog Cathos de Alvia
- Sadie Thompson (1928) — Mr. Alfred Davidson
- The Lion and the Mouse (1928)
- West of Zanzibar (1928) — Crane
Directing
- Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
- Redemption (1930)
- The Rogue Song (1930)
- The Sea Bat (1930)
- His Glorious Night (1929)
- Madame X (1929)
- The Unholy Night (1929)
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