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Known Credits 244

Gender Male

Birthdate 1878-04-28 (147 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known For Lionel Herbert BlytheLionel Blythe

Lionel Barrymore

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 Christma ...

Known For

And the Oscar Goes To...

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

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

The Mesmerist

Complicated Women

Acting

2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)

2008 -- Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You | Self (archive footage)

2004 -- Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various roles (archive footage)

2003 -- The Mesmerist | The Innkeeper (archive footage)

2003 -- Complicated Women | Self (archive footage)

2002 -- D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 |

1988 -- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage)

1986 -- Super Duper Bloopers | Himself

1976 -- That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage)

1974 -- That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited)

1972 -- Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage)

1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1956 -- Our Mr. Sun | Father Time (voice)

1955 -- Film Fun | (archive footage)

1953 -- Yesterday and Today | (archive footage)

1953 -- Main Street to Broadway | Self

1952 -- Lone Star | Andrew Jackson

1951 -- Bannerline | Hugo Trimble

1951 -- The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | Himself - Giving Introduction

1950 -- Right Cross | Sean O'Malley

1950 -- Screen Actors | Self (uncredited)

1949 -- Breakdowns of 1949 | Self

1949 -- Malaya | John Manchester

1949 -- Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership | Himself

1949 -- Down to the Sea in Ships | Bering Joy

1948 -- Key Largo | James Temple

1947 -- Dark Delusion | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1946 -- Duel in the Sun | Sen. Jackson McCanles

1946 -- The Secret Heart | Dr. Rossiger

1946 -- It's a Wonderful Life | Mr. Potter

1946 -- Three Wise Fools | Dr. Richard Gaunght

1945 -- The Valley of Decision | Pat Rafferty

1945 -- Between Two Women | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1944 -- Dragon Seed | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1944 -- Since You Went Away | Clergyman

1944 -- 3 Men in White | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1944 -- Twenty Years After | (archive footage)

1943 -- A Guy Named Joe | The General

1943 -- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith | Gramps

1943 -- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1942 -- Tennessee Johnson | Thaddeus Stevens

1942 -- Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1942 -- Calling Dr. Gillespie | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1942 -- Dr. Kildare's Victory | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1941 -- Lady Be Good | Judge Murdock

1941 -- Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1941 -- The People Vs. Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1941 -- The Bad Man | Uncle Henry Jones

1941 -- The Penalty | 'Grandpop' Logan

1940 -- Dr. Kildare's Crisis | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1940 -- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self

1940 -- Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1940 -- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage)

1940 -- Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self

1940 -- Dr. Kildare's Strange Case | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1940 -- The Stars Look Down | Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)

1939 -- The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1939 -- On Borrowed Time | Julian Northrup aka Gramps

1939 -- The Movies March On | Self (segment The New York Hat) (archive footage)

1939 -- Land of Liberty | (archive footage)

1939 -- From the Ends of the Earth | Self

1939 -- Calling Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1939 -- Let Freedom Ring | Thomas Logan

1938 -- A Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore | Self

1938 -- Young Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Gillespie

1938 -- You Can't Take It with You | Martin Vanderhof

1938 -- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 | Lionel Barrymore

1938 -- Test Pilot | Howard B. Drake

1938 -- A Yank at Oxford | Dan Sheridan

1937 -- Navy Blue and Gold | Captain 'Skinny' Dawes

1937 -- Saratoga | Grandpa Clayton

1937 -- Captains Courageous | Captain Disko Troop

1937 -- A Family Affair | Judge Hardy

1936 -- Camille | Monsieur Duval

1936 -- The Road to Glory | Papa La Roche / Pvt. Morin

1936 -- The Gorgeous Hussy | Andrew Jackson

1936 -- The Devil-Doll | Paul Lavond

1936 -- The Voice of Bugle Ann | Springfield Davis

1935 -- Ah, Wilderness! | Nat Miller

1935 -- The Return Of Peter Grimm | Peter Grimm

1935 -- Public Hero Number 1 | Dr. Josiah Glass

1935 -- Mark of the Vampire | Professor Zelin

1935 -- The Little Colonel | Colonel Lloyd

1935 -- David Copperfield | Dan Peggotty

1934 -- Treasure Island | Billy Bones

1934 -- The Girl from Missouri | T.R. Paige

1934 -- Carolina | Bob Connelly

1934 -- This Side of Heaven | Martin Turner

1933 -- Dinner at Eight | Oliver Jordan

1933 -- Should Ladies Behave | Augustus Merrick

1933 -- Christopher Bean | Dr. Milton Haggett

1933 -- Night Flight | Robineau

1933 -- One Man's Journey | Eli Watt

1933 -- The Stranger's Return | Grandpa Cyrus Tatum Storr

1933 -- Looking Forward | Tim Benton

1933 -- Sweepings | Daniel Pardway

1932 -- Rasputin and the Empress | Grigori Rasputin

1932 -- The Washington Masquerade | Jefferson "Jeff" Keane

1932 -- Grand Hotel | Otto Kringelein

1932 -- Arsène Lupin | Detective Guerchard

1932 -- Broken Lullaby | Dr. H. Holderlin

1931 -- Mata Hari | General Serge Shubin

1931 -- The Christmas Party | Himself (uncredited)

1931 -- The Yellow Ticket | Baron Igor Andreeff

1931 -- Guilty Hands | Richard Grant

1931 -- A Free Soul | Stephen Ashe

1930 -- Estrellados | Self (Guest Appearance)

1930 -- Free and Easy | Bedroom Scene

1929 -- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self - Director of 'Romeo and Juliet' (uncredited)

1929 -- The Mysterious Island | Andre Dakkar

1928 -- The River Woman | Bill Lefty

1928 -- West of Zanzibar | Crane

1928 -- Alias Jimmy Valentine | Doyle

1928 -- Road House | Henry Grayson

1928 -- The Lion and the Mouse | John Ryder

1928 -- Drums of Love | Duke Cathos de Alvia

1928 -- Sadie Thompson | Alfred Davidson

1927 -- The Thirteenth Hour | Prof. Leroy

1927 -- Body and Soul | Dr. Leyden

1927 -- Women Love Diamonds | Hugo Harlan

1927 -- The Show | The Greek

1926 -- The Temptress | Canterac

1926 -- The Bells | Mathias

1926 -- The Lucky Lady | Count Ferranzo

1926 -- Paris at Midnight | Vautrin

1926 -- Wife Tamers | Mr. Barry

1926 -- The Barrier | Stark Bennett

1926 -- Brooding Eyes | Slim Jim Carey

1925 -- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1925 -- The Splendid Road | Dan Clehollis

1925 -- The Woman Who Did | Allan Merrick

1925 -- Fifty-Fifty | Frederick Harmon

1925 -- The Wrongdoers | Daniel Abbott

1925 -- The Girl Who Wouldn't Work | Gordon Kent

1925 -- Children of the Whirlwind | Joe Ellison

1925 -- A Man of Iron | Philip Durban

1924 -- I Am the Man | James McQuade

1924 -- Meddling Women | Edwin Ainsworth / John Wells (duel role)

1924 -- America | Capt. Walter Butler

1924 -- Decameron Nights | Saladin

1923 -- The Eternal City | Baron Bonelli

1923 -- Unseeing Eyes | Conrad Dean

1923 -- Enemies of Women | Prince Lubimoff

1922 -- The Face in the Fog | Boston Blackie Dawson

1922 -- Boomerang Bill | Boomerang Bill

1921 -- Jim the Penman | James Ralston

1921 -- The Great Adventure | Priam Farll

1920 -- The Devil's Garden | William Dale

1920 -- The Master Mind | Henry Allen

1920 -- The Copperhead | Milt Shanks

1917 -- National Red Cross Pageant |

1917 -- The Millionaire's Double | Bide Bennington

1917 -- His Father's Son | J. Dabney Barro

1917 -- The End of the Tour | Byron Bennett

1916 -- The Brand of Cowardice | Cyril Hamilton

1916 -- The Upheaval | Jim Gordon

1916 -- The Quitter | Happy Jack Lewis

1916 -- Dorian's Divorce | Richard Dorian

1915 -- A Yellow Streak | Barry Dale

1915 -- Dora Thorne | Lord Earle

1915 -- The Flaming Sword | Steve

1915 -- The Romance of Elaine | Marcus Del Mar / Mr. X

1915 -- The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde | Judge Randolph Legarde

1915 -- A Modern Magdalen | Lindsay

1915 -- Wildfire | John Keefe

1914 -- The Exploits of Elaine |

1914 -- The Seats of the Mighty | Monsieur Doltaire

1914 -- The Span of Life | Richard Blunt

1914 -- Under the Gaslight | William Byke

1914 -- The Woman in Black | Robert Crane

1914 -- The Power of the Press | Steve Carson

1914 -- Men and Women | Stephen Rodman / Robert Stevens

1914 -- The Cracksman's Gratitude |

1914 -- Woman Against Woman | Gilbert Craven

1914 -- Strongheart | Billy Saunders

1914 -- Judith of Bethulia | Extra (uncredited)

1914 -- Her Father's Silent Partner |

1914 -- Classmates | Bubby Dumble

1914 -- The Bartered Crown | The Landlord

1913 -- The House of Discord | The Husband

1913 -- All for Science | Detective

1913 -- So Runs the Way |

1913 -- The Stolen Treaty | The Japanese Diplomat

1913 -- The Strong Man's Burden | John - the Elder Brother

1913 -- The Crook and the Girl | The Nephew

1913 -- The Work Habit | The Father

1913 -- The Suffragette Minstrels | (unconfirmed)

1913 -- An Indian's Loyalty | The Cattle Buyer

1913 -- Under the Shadow of the Law | Charles Darnton - the Employer

1913 -- I Was Meant for You | Lavina's Father

1913 -- The Vengeance of Galora |

1913 -- The Mirror | Daisy's Father

1913 -- Pa Says | Teddy's Rival

1913 -- A Gamble with Death | Jim Benton, the Bartender

1913 -- In Diplomatic Circles | The Japanese Ambassador

1913 -- Almost a Wild Man | In Audience (uncredited)

1913 -- The Switchtower | First Counterfeiter

1913 -- Death's Marathon | The Financial Backer

1913 -- The Well | The Farmer

1913 -- The Enemy's Baby | Postmaster Ben Brown

1913 -- Red Hicks Defies the World | The Referee

1913 -- A Timely Interception | Uncle James - The Farmer's Brother

1913 -- The Ranchero's Revenge | The Ranchero

1913 -- Just Gold | The Stay-at-Home Brother

1913 -- The Yaqui Cur | The Easterner

1913 -- The House of Darkness | The Doctor

1913 -- The Wanderer | The Male Lover

1913 -- The Lady and the Mouse | The Father

1913 -- A Misunderstood Boy | The Father

1913 -- The Little Tease | In Bar

1913 -- The Perfidy of Mary | Mary's Father

1913 -- The Sheriff's Baby | Third Bandit

1913 -- Fate | Father, Loving Family

1913 -- Near To Earth | Gato

1913 -- The Unwelcome Guest | At Auction (uncredited)

1913 -- The Wrong Bottle | The Father

1913 -- Love in an Apartment Hotel | In Hotel Lobby

1913 -- A Chance Deception | 2nd Policeman

1913 -- Oil and Water | The Idealist's Friend

1913 -- The Tender Hearted Boy | (uncredited)

1913 -- An Adventure in the Autumn Woods | The Father

1913 -- The Telephone Girl and the Lady | The Desk Sergeant

1913 -- Three Friends | Second Friend

1912 -- The God Within | The Woman of the Camp's Lover

1912 -- A Cry for Help | The Tramp

1912 -- The Massacre |

1912 -- The Burglar’s Dilemma | The Householder

1912 -- My Hero |

1912 -- The New York Hat | Minister

1912 -- Brutality | At Wedding

1912 -- The Informer | Union Soldier

1912 -- My Baby | At table

1912 -- Gold and Glitter | The Lover

1912 -- Heredity | Woodsman

1912 -- The Musketeers of Pig Alley | The Musician's Friend

1912 -- The Painted Lady | At Ice Cream Festival

1912 -- The One She Loved | The Neighbor

1912 -- The Chief's Blanket | The Young Man

1912 -- So Near, Yet So Far | In Club

1912 -- Friends | Grizzley Fallon - Dandy Jack's Friend

1911 -- The Miser's Heart | Jules - the Thief

1911 -- The Battle | Wagon Driver (uncredited)

1911 -- Fighting Blood |

1905 -- The White Caps |