John Barrymore
Birthday: 1882-02-15
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend....
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Twentieth Century
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she prov...
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Midnight
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society....
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Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache....
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The Invisible Woman
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil...
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Rasputin and the Empress
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...
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One on Romance
Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom s...
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The Dream of a Moving Picture Director
The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts...
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The Widow Casey's Return
Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals....
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Just Pretending
Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children a...
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A Prize Package
Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a cit...
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The Dictator
On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes...
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The Man from Mexico
A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he ...
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The Incorrigible Dukane
A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a ...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Red Widow
An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has...
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On the Quiet
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family th...
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Here Comes the Bride
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich....
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Maytime
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teache...
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The Test of Honor
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two peop...
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Romeo and Juliet
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families....
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Movie Maniacs
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope ...
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-fill...
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Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector...
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Svengali
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife...
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Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver...
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A Bill of Divorcement
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has ch...
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Counsellor at Law
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past....
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out ...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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Night Flight
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night....
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Spawn of the North
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates...
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Tempest
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other off...
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Don Juan
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women g...
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Eternal Love
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to fin...
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The Beloved Rogue
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasiona...
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo contain...
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When a Man Loves
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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State's Attorney
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom ...
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Beau Brummel
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley...
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True Confession
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an...
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He...
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The Mad Genius
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Compl...
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The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...
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Arsène Lupin
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even ...
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National Red Cross Pageant
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sel...
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Topaze
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a...
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Vagabonding On The Pacific
Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sa...
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Reunion in Vienna
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now w...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals pr...
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his ...
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Playmates
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program...
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Long Lost Father
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted hi...
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Hold That Co-ed
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football sq...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the live...
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General Crack
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly know...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...
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The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made ...
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The Great Man Votes
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...
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The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....
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Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....
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The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...
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Night Club Scandal
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F...
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World Premiere
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity f...
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The Man from Blankley's
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mis...
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The Lotus Eater
Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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Romance in the Dark
A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true....
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Okay for Sound
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
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Nearly a King
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place....
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The Lost Bridegroom
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's h...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...
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Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starr...
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Are You a Mason?
Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of dr...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's ...
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