Lionel Barrymore
Acting
Born 1878-04-28
Died 1954-11-15
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
258 credits
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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 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 MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
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Filmography
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It's a Wonderful Life
The Ed Sullivan Show
MGM Parade
Grand Hotel
Key Largo
You Can't Take It with You
Lone Star
Treasure Island
Her Father's Silent Partner
Duel in the Sun
Captains Courageous
That's Entertainment!
Mata Hari
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Stolen Treaty
Camille
David Copperfield
Dinner at Eight
Dragon Seed
Women Love Diamonds
The Valley of Decision
Carolina
The Little Colonel
That's Entertainment, Part II
Complicated Women
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Devil's Garden
Wife Tamers
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Malaya
Rasputin and the Empress
Film Fun
Down to the Sea in Ships
Arsène Lupin
Since You Went Away
Road House
Breakdowns of 1949
Twenty Years After
Test Pilot
A Yank at Oxford
Mark of the Vampire
The Secret Heart
Decameron Nights
A Guy Named Joe
The Devil-Doll
Night Flight
Broken Lullaby
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Free and Easy
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Ah, Wilderness!
Dora Thorne
The Copperhead
Judith of Bethulia
Ten Cents a Dance
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Gorgeous Hussy
Classmates
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