John Barrymore
Acting
🎂 1882-02-15
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.
Cast credits(89)
Baron Felix von Gaigern
1932
King Louis XV
1938
(archive footage)
1976
Self (archive footage)
2003
Self (archive footage)
1961
Self (archive footage)
1972
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
1929
Hilary Fairfield
1932
Svengali
1931
Colonel Neilson
1937
Hamlet (archive sound)
1991
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1920
Professor Gibbs
1940
Self
1928
(archive footage)
1979
Self
1938
Self (archive footage)
1976
Vance
1939
Carl Bellairs
1934
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2004
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
1943
Self (archive footage)
1942
Mercutio
1936
Colonel Neilson
1938
Marcus Paltran
1929
Captain Ahab Ceeley
1926
Self (archive footage)
1950
Archival Footage
2021
Self (archive footage)
1974
Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
1926
Georges Flammarion
1939
The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
(archive footage)
1984
Col. J.A. Nielson
1937
Don Juan (archive footage)
1946
Larry Renault
1933
Dr. Ernest Tindal
1937
François Villon
1927
Zoltan Jason
1938
Frederick Tile
1919
Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
1936
Prince Paul Chegodieff
1932
Evans Garrick
1940
Sherlock Holmes
1922
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
1927
Charles Jasper
1937
Hamlet
1933
Duke of Charmerace
1932
The Tyrant - Russian episode
1917
Tom Cardigan
1932
Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
1933
Riviere
1933
Sergeant Ivan Markov
1928
Gabby Harrigan
1938
Nicolai Nazaroff
1937
(archive footage)
1939
Berresford Cruger
1914
Oscar Jaffe
1934
Duncan DeGrasse
1941
Martin Wingrave
1919
Windy Turlon
1938
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
1931
Auguste A. Topaze
1933
Robert Ridgeway
1918
Svengali (archive footage)
1983
Cicero Hannibal Butts
1916
Frank Perry
1915
Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
1916
Lord Strathpeffer
1930
Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
1924
John Barrymore
1941
Brooke Travers
1915
Fitzhugh
1914
(archive footage)
1953
George Simon
1933
Ahab
1930
Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
1929
James Dukane
1915
A.J. Raffles
1917
1927
Self (archive footage)
1945
Bertie Joyce
1916
Jacques Leroi
1921
Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
1913
The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
Himself
1926