John Barrymore

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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.

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2021
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie Archival Footage
2015
Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
2005
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2003
Complicated Women
Movie Self (archive footage)
1995
The Casting Couch
Movie
1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Movie Hamlet (archive sound)
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
1983
The Horror of It All
Movie Svengali (archive footage)
1979
The Horror Show
Movie (archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
1976
It's Showtime
Movie Self (archive footage)
1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Movie Self (archive footage)
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
1970
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Movie Self (archive footage)

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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Self
1953
Yesterday and Today
Movie (archive footage)
1950
The Golden Twenties
Movie Self (archive footage)
1946
Okay for Sound
Movie Don Juan (archive footage)
1945
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Movie Self (archive footage)
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie Self (archive footage)
1941
Playmates
Movie John Barrymore
1941
World Premiere
Movie Duncan DeGrasse
1940
The Invisible Woman
Movie Professor Gibbs
1940
The Great Profile
Movie Evans Garrick
1939
Land of Liberty
Movie (archive footage)
1939
The Green Goddess
Movie
1939
Midnight
Movie Georges Flammarion
1939
The Great Man Votes
Movie Vance
1938
Hold That Co-ed
Movie Gabby Harrigan
1938
Marie Antoinette
Movie King Louis XV
1938
Spawn of the North
Movie Windy Turlon
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie Self
1938
Romance in the Dark
Movie Zoltan Jason
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Movie Colonel Neilson
1937
True Confession
Movie Charles Jasper
1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Movie Col. J.A. Nielson
1937
Night Club Scandal
Movie Dr. Ernest Tindal