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(90)
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1920
Colonel Neilson
1937
Baron Felix von Gaigern
1932
Georges Flammarion
1939
King Louis XV
1938
Riviere
1933
Larry Renault
1933
(archive footage)
1976
Professor Gibbs
1940
Oscar Jaffe
1934
Auguste A. Topaze
1933
Archival Footage
2021
Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
1926
Self (archive footage)
2003
Svengali
1931
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
1929
Ahab
1930
Mercutio
1936
Prince Paul Chegodieff
1932
Charles Jasper
1937
Duke of Charmerace
1932
François Villon
1927
Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
1933
Self (archive footage)
1961
Sherlock Holmes
1922
Self (archive footage)
1976
(archive footage)
1979
Colonel Neilson
1938
Don Juan (archive footage)
1946
John Barrymore
1941
Nicolai Nazaroff
1937
(archive footage)
1984
Hamlet (archive sound)
1991
Windy Turlon
1938
Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
1924
Hilary Fairfield
1932
George Simon
1933
Self
1938
Self (archive footage)
1972
'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Sergeant Ivan Markov
1928
Self (archive footage)
1974
Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
1936
(archive footage)
1939
Zoltan Jason
1938
Martin Wingrave
1919
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
1931
Captain Ahab Ceeley
1926
The Tyrant - Russian episode
1917
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2004
Hamlet
1933
Frank Perry
1915
Fitzhugh
1914
Self (archive footage)
1945
Col. J.A. Nielson
1937
Lord Strathpeffer
1930
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
1927
Self (archive footage)
1942
Svengali (archive footage)
1983
1927
Carl Bellairs
1934
Dr. Ernest Tindal
1937
Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
1916
Evans Garrick
1940
The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
Marcus Paltran
1929
A.J. Raffles
1917
Vance
1939
Frederick Tile
1919
Gabby Harrigan
1938
Robert Ridgeway
1918
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
1943
Tom Cardigan
1932
Duncan DeGrasse
1941
Brooke Travers
1915
Self (archive footage)
1950
Bertie Joyce
1916
Cicero Hannibal Butts
1916
Self
1928
James Dukane
1915
Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
1929
(archive footage)
1953
Berresford Cruger
1914
The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
Jacques Leroi
1921
Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
1913
The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
1912
Himself
1926
Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
1912