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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.
It's a Wonderful Life: Directed by Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell. An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
A young man... the smartest one in the crowd, mind you... A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. Yes, sir, trapped into this small town and frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters.
Lionel Barrymore. Actor: You Can't Take It with You. Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography.
Dec 25, 2023 · Within the endearing narrative of It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Henry F. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) emerges as a symbol of both dominance and solitude, his existence in stark contrast to the film’s hero, George Bailey (James Stewart). Throughout the story, we witness Mr. Potter’s depiction as a ruthless financier, a role that unveils a deep ...
May 31, 2024 · Perhaps the least flamboyant member of the Barrymore acting family, he was best known to modern audiences for his performance as Mr. Potter in the classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
Dec 6, 2021 · Played to ruthless perfection by the great Lionel Barrymore, the crooked businessman owns the No. 6 slot on the American Film Institute's list of 50 Greatest Villains.
On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. The prayers of his family and friends reach Heaven, where guardian angel second class Clarence Odbody is assigned to save George in order to earn his wings. Clarence is shown flashbacks of George's life.
Potter is unrepentant to the end, and that somehow got past the censors. But thanks to SNL, we see what really happens to Potter in the previously undiscovered "lost ending" of It's a Wonderful Life. Mr. Potter's Timeline
Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore)’s Timeline and Summary. Mr. Potter is a rich, villainous guy who's trying to control the financial futures of Bedford Falls. He's on the board of the Building and Loan, and he tries to force George's dad to be less lenient toward the people to whom he lends money.
