Acting

John Barrymore

Born 1882-02-15 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died 1942-05-29

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.

Credits

Newest first

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
2021
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie
as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
2015
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2004
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Casting Couch
1995
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Hamlet (archive sound)
1991
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
The Horror of It All
as Svengali (archive footage)
1983
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
1976
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
1974
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
Brasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1970
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
MGM Parade
as Self
1955
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
1950
Okay for Sound
as Don Juan (archive footage)
1946
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self (archive footage)
1945
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
1943
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
Playmates
as John Barrymore
1941
World Premiere
as Duncan DeGrasse
1941
The Invisible Woman
as Professor Gibbs
1940
The Great Profile
as Evans Garrick
1940
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1939
The Green Goddess
1939
Midnight
as Georges Flammarion
1939
The Great Man Votes
as Vance
1939
Hold That Co-ed
as Gabby Harrigan
1938
Marie Antoinette
as King Louis XV
1938
Spawn of the North
as Windy Turlon
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
Romance in the Dark
as Zoltan Jason
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Colonel Neilson
1938
True Confession
as Charles Jasper
1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
as Col. J.A. Nielson
1937
Night Club Scandal
as Dr. Ernest Tindal
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Colonel Neilson
1937
Maytime
as Nicolai Nazaroff
1937
Romeo and Juliet
as Mercutio
1936
Movie Maniacs
as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
1936
Twentieth Century
as Oscar Jaffe
1934
Long Lost Father
as Carl Bellairs
1934
Counsellor at Law
as George Simon
1933
Dinner at Eight
as Larry Renault
1933
Night Flight
as Riviere
1933
Reunion in Vienna
as Rudolf von Hapsburg
1933
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
as Hamlet
1933
Topaze
as Auguste A. Topaze
1933
Rasputin and the Empress
as Prince Paul Chegodieff
1932
A Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary Fairfield
1932
Grand Hotel
as Baron Felix von Gaigern
1932
State's Attorney
as Tom Cardigan
1932
Arsène Lupin
as Duke of Charmerace
1932
The Mad Genius
as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
1931
Svengali
as Svengali
1931
Moby Dick
as Ahab
1930
The Man from Blankley's
as Lord Strathpeffer
1930
General Crack
as Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
1929
The Show of Shows
as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'
1929
Eternal Love
as Marcus Paltran
1929
Tempest
as Sergeant Ivan Markov
1928
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
1928
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
When a Man Loves
as Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
1927
The Beloved Rogue
as François Villon
1927
Life in Hollywood
as Self
1927
Don Juan
as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
1926
The Sea Beast
as Captain Ahab Ceeley
1926
Vagabonding On The Pacific
as Himself
1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Beau Brummel
as Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
1924
Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1922
The Lotus Eater
as Jacques Leroi
1921
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1920
The Test of Honor
as Martin Wingrave
1919