Lionel Barrymore
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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 focussing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday
4/28/1878
It's a Wonderful Life
8.3
Calling Dr. Gillespie
6.4
Key Largo
7.5
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5.6
Duel in the Sun
6.4
Public Hero Number 1
6.2
Grand Hotel
7
West of Zanzibar
6.9
You Can't Take It with You
7.5
On Borrowed Time
7.5
Mata Hari
6.1
Mark of the Vampire
6.1
The Devil-Doll
6.8
The Little Colonel
6.4
Since You Went Away
6.4
Sadie Thompson
6.8
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
6.2
Free and Easy
5.9
Rasputin and the Empress
5
Test Pilot
6.6
A Guy Named Joe
6.5
Treasure Island
6.5
The Valley of Decision
7.5
Lone Star
5.5
Lady Be Good
5.4
Camille
7
David Copperfield
6.5
Malaya
6.5
Saratoga
6.3
Captains Courageous
7.4
Dinner at Eight
6.8
A Free Soul
6.2
Tennessee Johnson
6.2
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
6.2
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.8
Night Flight
5.9
Broken Lullaby
7.5
The Mysterious Island
5.3
The Temptress
6.5
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
5.5
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6
The Yellow Ticket
5
The Girl from Missouri
6.9
The Road to Glory
6.3
The Show
6
Should Ladies Behave
4.3
The Gorgeous Hussy
5
The New York Hat
5.7
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
4.8
Dr. Kildare's Victory
5.8
Young Dr. Kildare
6.5
Calling Dr. Kildare
6.1
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
7
A Yank at Oxford
6.7
A Family Affair
5.7
Death's Marathon
5.7
The Return Of Peter Grimm
5.2
Guilty Hands
5.7
Navy Blue and Gold
5.9
Down to the Sea in Ships
6.9
3 Men in White
6
The Voice of Bugle Ann
5.8
The Yaqui Cur
0
The Switchtower
5
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
5.3
The Wanderer
5.5
So Near, Yet So Far
6
Sweepings
5.8
The Bells
6.1
Friends
5.4
The Burglar’s Dilemma
5.3
Strongheart
5
Wife Tamers
6
Let Freedom Ring
6
Right Cross
5.8
One Man's Journey
7.1
Bannerline
6
Three Wise Fools
5
Between Two Women
5.9
The Washington Masquerade
6.5
Our Mr. Sun
7.1
Carolina
0
This Side of Heaven
7
That's Entertainment!
7.3
The Secret Heart
6.3
Looking Forward
6.2
The Christmas Party
5.4
Arsène Lupin
6.9
Unseeing Eyes
0
The Eternal City
6
Classmates
0
The Stranger's Return
6.2
Paris at Midnight
9
Dark Delusion
6
Drums of Love
5
Alias Jimmy Valentine
0
The Penalty
6
The Devil's Garden
0
Three Friends
5
Body and Soul
0
The Lucky Lady
5.5
The Stars Look Down
6.4
The Bad Man
5.4
An Indian's Loyalty
0
Main Street to Broadway
6.5
The Painted Lady
5.5
Ah, Wilderness!
6.3
The Strong Man's Burden
5
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7
Christopher Bean
0
The Face in the Fog
6
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
0
The Lion and the Mouse
0
From the Ends of the Earth
0
Fate
6
My Baby
4.5
The One She Loved
0
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
5
Breakdowns of 1949
6
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5
Dragon Seed
6.4
The Mesmerist
8
Wildfire
0
America
5.5
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
0
Complicated Women
6.7
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8
Twenty Years After
6
Brooding Eyes
0
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
0
Women Love Diamonds
0
The Little Tease
5
Fifty-Fifty
0
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
2
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
0
Oil and Water
0
The Quitter
0
A Timely Interception
4.8
The God Within
0
The Great Adventure
0
Enemies of Women
5.2
The River Woman
0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
And the Oscar Goes To...
7
Children of the Whirlwind
0
Jim the Penman
0
The Copperhead
5.5
The Thirteenth Hour
0
The Woman in Black
5
The Lady and the Mouse
0
Film Fun
4
The Movies March On
3.5
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3
The Upheaval
0
Dorian's Divorce
0
Screen Actors
6
The House of Darkness
5
Decameron Nights
0
Meddling Women
0
The Master Mind
0
The Romance of Elaine
0
The End of the Tour
0
Yesterday and Today
0
The Sheriff's Baby
0
Gold and Glitter
0
The Informer
0
A Cry for Help
0
The Unwelcome Guest
5
Just Gold
0
So Runs the Way
0
Heredity
0
Brutality
0
My Hero
0
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
0
A Chance Deception
0
Love in an Apartment Hotel
0
The Wrong Bottle
0
Near To Earth
0
The Ranchero's Revenge
0
Red Hicks Defies the World
0
The Well
0
In Diplomatic Circles
0
A Gamble with Death
0
The Enemy's Baby
0
The Mirror
0
Under the Shadow of the Law
0
I Was Meant for You
0
The Work Habit
0
The Crook and the Girl
0
Fighting Blood
6.3
The Stolen Treaty
0
All for Science
0
Her Father's Silent Partner
0
Judith of Bethulia
6.3
A Misunderstood Boy
0
The White Caps
5
The Battle
4.8
The Miser's Heart
6
The Chief's Blanket
0
The Tender Hearted Boy
0
The Perfidy of Mary
0
Pa Says
0
The Vengeance of Galora
0
The Suffragette Minstrels
0
The House of Discord
0
The Bartered Crown
0
Woman Against Woman
0
The Cracksman's Gratitude
0
Men and Women
0
The Power of the Press
0
The Span of Life
0
The Seats of the Mighty
0
The Exploits of Elaine
6
Under the Gaslight
0
A Modern Magdalen
0
The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde
0
The Flaming Sword
0
Dora Thorne
0
A Yellow Streak
0
The Brand of Cowardice
0
His Father's Son
0
The Millionaire's Double
0
National Red Cross Pageant
0
Boomerang Bill
2
I Am the Man
0
A Man of Iron
0
The Wrongdoers
0
The Splendid Road
0
The Woman Who Did
0
The Barrier
6
Road House
0
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
6
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3
Super Duper Bloopers
0
Almost a Wild Man
0
Land of Liberty
0
Estrellados
0
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
0
Vincent Price's Dracula
7.9
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6
A Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore
0
The Massacre
6.1