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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 ...
Awards & Achievements. Lionel Barrymore won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic lawyer in ‘A Free Soul ‘ (1931). Personal Life & Legacy. In 1904 Lionel Barrymore married Doris Rankin, the young sister of his uncle Sidney Drew's wife. They had two daughters but both their children died as infants.
Made his Broadway debut in 1900 in Sag Harbor. Studied painting in Paris in the early 1900s. Was a contract player with MGM for 25 years, occasionally directing. Starting in 1938, had a recurring role as Dr. Gillespie in the Dr. Kildare film series. By the age of 60, had become wheelchair-bound due to severe arthritis, but continued to act ...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15--Lionel Barrymore died tonight at Valley Hospital in Van Nuys. He was 76 years old. His physician, John Paul Ewing, attributed his death to a heart ailment. The actor was stricken last night at the home of Mrs. J. E. Wheeler. He had resided with Mrs. Wheeler and her two daughters, Miss Benson Wheeler and Miss Florence ...
Added: Apr 25, 1998. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 61. Source citation. Actor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Lionel Herbert Blythe. He was the oldest child of stage perfomer Maurice Blythe who had gained fame as Maurice Barrymore and his wife Georgina Drew the daughter of celebrated actor John Drew. Lionel along with his sister Ethel and ...
Dec 10, 2020 · Oscar Profile #526: Lionel Barrymore. Born April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lionel Herbert Blythe was the oldest of three children of actors Maurice Barrymore and Ellen Drew Barrymore, Barrymore being the stage name that Lionel and his siblings, Ethel, and John, also took. The most prolific of the acting Barrymores, Lionel made his ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Although the Drew and Barrymore families had been treading the boards for decades, it was Ethel (1879–1959) and her brothers, Lionel (1878–1954) and John (1882–1942), who would propel their ...
