
Known for: Acting
Birthday: April 28, 1878
Age: 76
Died: November 15, 1954
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Popularity: 1.0
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.
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Lionel Barrymore's filmography on GoMovie.ai currently includes 205 movies.
Career range in this list starts from 1905.
1948
1946
2003