John Barrymore

Actor

Born February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

Archival Footage

Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

The Casting Couch

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Hamlet (archive sound)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage)

The Horror of It All

Svengali (archive footage)

The Horror Show

(archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

It's Showtime

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage)

Brasileiros em Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

MGM Parade

Self

Yesterday and Today

(archive footage)

The Golden Twenties

Self (archive footage)

Okay for Sound

Don Juan (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

Self (archive footage)

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Self (archive footage)

Playmates

John Barrymore

World Premiere

Duncan DeGrasse

The Invisible Woman

Professor Gibbs

The Great Profile

Evans Garrick

Land of Liberty

(archive footage)

Midnight

Georges Flammarion

The Great Man Votes

Vance

Hold That Co-ed

Gabby Harrigan

Marie Antoinette

King Louis XV

Spawn of the North

Windy Turlon

Hollywood Goes to Town

Self

Romance in the Dark

Zoltan Jason

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Colonel Neilson

True Confession

Charles Jasper

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Col. J.A. Nielson

Night Club Scandal

Dr. Ernest Tindal

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Colonel Neilson

Maytime

Nicolai Nazaroff

Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio

Movie Maniacs

Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)

Twentieth Century

Oscar Jaffe

Long Lost Father

Carl Bellairs

Counsellor at Law

George Simon

Dinner at Eight

Larry Renault

Night Flight

Riviere

Reunion in Vienna

Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg

Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V

Hamlet

Topaze

Auguste A. Topaze

Rasputin and the Empress

Prince Paul Chegodieff

A Bill of Divorcement

Hilary Fairfield

Grand Hotel

Baron Felix von Gaigern

State's Attorney

Tom Cardigan

Arsène Lupin

Duke of Charmerace

The Mad Genius

Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov

Svengali

Moby Dick

Ahab

The Man from Blankley's

Lord Strathpeffer

General Crack

Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian

The Show of Shows

Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)

Eternal Love

Marcus Paltran

Tempest

Sergeant Ivan Markov

The Circus: Premiere

Self

Life in Hollywood No. 4

When a Man Loves

Chevalier Fabien des Grieux

The Beloved Rogue

François Villon

Life in Hollywood

Self

Don Juan

Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana

The Sea Beast

Captain Ahab Ceeley

Vagabonding On The Pacific

Himself

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Beau Brummel

Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel

Sherlock Holmes

The Lotus Eater

Jacques Leroi

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

The Test of Honor

Martin Wingrave

Here Comes the Bride

Frederick Tile

On the Quiet

Robert Ridgeway

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

A.J. Raffles

National Red Cross Pageant

The Tyrant - Russian episode

The Red Widow

Cicero Hannibal Butts

The Lost Bridegroom

Bertie Joyce

Nearly a King

Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana

The Incorrigible Dukane

James Dukane

The Dictator

Brooke Travers

Are You a Mason?

Frank Perry

The Man from Mexico

Fitzhugh

An American Citizen

Berresford Cruger