Lionel Barrymore
ActingAlso Known As
Lionel Herbert Blythe, Lionel Blythe, لیونل بریمور
Biography
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.
Movies
(244 total)
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mr. Potter
Key Largo
as James Temple
You Can't Take It with You
as Martin Vanderhof
Grand Hotel
as Otto Kringelein
Duel in the Sun
as Sen. Jackson McCanles
Captains Courageous
as Captain Disko Troop
Camille
as Monsieur Duval
Mark of the Vampire
as Professor Zelin
Dinner at Eight
as Oliver Jordan
The Devil-Doll
as Paul Lavond
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Musician's Friend
Treasure Island
as Billy Bones
David Copperfield
as Dan Peggotty
Test Pilot
as Howard B. Drake
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mata Hari
as General Serge Shubin
A Guy Named Joe
as The General
Since You Went Away
as Clergyman
A Free Soul
as Stephen Ashe
