
Lionel Barrymore
Born April 28, 1878 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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 focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Notable Appearances
TV Shows
More Movies

Duel in the Sun

Grand Hotel

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

That's Entertainment!

Key Largo

That's Entertainment, Part II

Since You Went Away

A Guy Named Joe

Mark of the Vampire

David Copperfield

The Secret Heart

Treasure Island

Dinner at Eight

Captains Courageous

Mata Hari

Camille

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Malaya

Arsène Lupin

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

Test Pilot

Dragon Seed

A Yank at Oxford

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Down to the Sea in Ships

Main Street to Broadway

Navy Blue and Gold

Rasputin and the Empress

The Girl from Missouri

Twenty Years After

The Little Colonel

Lone Star

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

The Stars Look Down

The Stranger's Return

The Road to Glory

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Carolina

Brasileiros em Hollywood

Dr. Kildare's Victory

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

On Borrowed Time

The Devil-Doll

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

From the Ends of the Earth

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

The Voice of Bugle Ann

Public Hero Number 1

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Bannerline

3 Men in White

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

One Man's Journey

Complicated Women

So Near, Yet So Far

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

This Side of Heaven

National Red Cross Pageant

Wife Tamers

The Bad Man

The Exploits of Elaine

Free and Easy

The Lady and the Mouse

Calling Dr. Kildare

Broken Lullaby

The Movies March On

His Father's Son

Three Wise Fools

A Cry for Help

Right Cross

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You

Saratoga

Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood

The Burglar’s Dilemma

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12

Land of Liberty

Road House

The Devil's Garden

The Gorgeous Hussy

Guilty Hands

Breakdowns of 1949

The Millionaire's Double

The Way of the World

The Mysterious Island

Night Flight

Decameron Nights

A Family Affair

Lady Be Good

Hooray for Hollywood

The New York Hat

Brutality

Tennessee Johnson

Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership

Yesterday and Today

The House of Darkness

West of Zanzibar

The Sheriff's Baby

The Upheaval

The Romance of Elaine

The Miser's Heart

The House of Discord

Dora Thorne

Dark Delusion

The Chief's Blanket

Sadie Thompson

Three Friends

A Free Soul

An Indian's Loyalty

Her Father's Silent Partner

Between Two Women

The Seats of the Mighty

Fifty-Fifty

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story

Sweepings

The Return Of Peter Grimm

Enemies of Women

Strongheart

Ah, Wilderness!

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

The Copperhead

Oil and Water

Super Duper Bloopers

The Brand of Cowardice

A Man of Iron

Let Freedom Ring

Looking Forward

Gold and Glitter

The Woman in Black

Young Dr. Kildare

The Yellow Ticket

The Washington Masquerade

Judith of Bethulia

Drums of Love

The End of the Tour

The Temptress

The Strong Man's Burden

The Power of the Press

Our Mr. Sun

The Lion and the Mouse

The Penalty

The Christmas Party

The Informer

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

Alias Jimmy Valentine

Women Love Diamonds

Death's Marathon

The Bells

The Painted Lady

The Flaming Sword

My Baby

Should Ladies Behave

Near To Earth

Christopher Bean

The Little Tease

Children of the Whirlwind

The Movie Album

Estrellados

America

Under the Gaslight

Jim the Penman

The Face in the Fog

The Lucky Lady

The Master Mind

The Unwelcome Guest

The Battle

The Great Adventure

A Timely Interception

The Show

Friends

The Switchtower

Heredity

The Splendid Road

Unseeing Eyes

Men and Women

The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde

The Wrongdoers

The Eternal City

Paris at Midnight

Wildfire

A Modern Magdalen

Boomerang Bill

The White Caps

The Barrier

Fighting Blood

The Thirteenth Hour

Meddling Women

Dorian's Divorce

Fate

The Mesmerist

Body and Soul

The River Woman

The Yaqui Cur

The Wanderer

A Yellow Streak






