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John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist, but appeared on stage together with his father Maurice in 1900, and then his sister Ethel the following year. He began his career in 1903 and first gained attention as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama, culminating in productions of Justice (1916), Richard III (1920) and Hamlet (1922); his portrayal of Hamlet led to him being called the "greatest living American tragedian".
Birth Name
John Sidney Blyth
Born
Wednesday, 15 February 1882
Died
Friday, 29 May 1942
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Call Me Kate | Self | 2023 |
| Coded | Self - Actor | 2021 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie | Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | 2015 |
| Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer | Self | 2009 |
| The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Don Juan de Marana | 2007 |
| Garbo | Baron Felix von Geigern | 2005 |
| Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Svengali (in "Svengali") | 2005 |
| Monster Movie Trivia Quiz | (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various roles / Various roles (archive footage) | 2004 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Call Me Kate | Self | 2023 |
| Coded | Self - Actor | 2021 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie | Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | 2015 |
| Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer | Self | 2009 |
| The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Don Juan de Marana | 2007 |
| Garbo | Baron Felix von Geigern | 2005 |
| Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Svengali (in "Svengali") | 2005 |
| Monster Movie Trivia Quiz | (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various roles / Various roles (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom | Hamlet | 1999 |
| Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998 |
| Famous Families | Self | 1998 |
| Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Hamlet | 1992 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| The Horror of It All | Svengali / Svengali (archive footage) | 1983 |
| Hollywood | Actor 'The Beloved Rogue' / (archive footage) | 1980 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| In Search of... | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde / Svengali | 1977 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Clip from 'Grand Hotel' / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| It's Showtime | Self | 1976 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Himself / Self | 1965 |
| Inside Daisy Clover | Self | 1965 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / Self | 1963 |
| Fractured Flickers | Albert K. Seltzer | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Actor 'Bill of Divorcement' | 1961 |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | Self | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actor 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' | 1961 |
| The Twentieth Century | Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926)) | 1957 |
| MGM Parade | The Baron Felix von Gaigern in 'Grand Hotel' | 1955 |
| Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953 |
| The Golden Twenties | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1950 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Baron Felix in 'Grand Hotel' | 1948 |
| Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary | Self | 1945 |
| Some of the Best | The Baron in Grand Hotel / Larry Renault in Dinner at Eight | 1944 |
| Playmates | John Barrymore | 1941 |
| World Premiere | Duncan DeGrasse | 1941 |
| The Invisible Woman | Professor Gibbs | 1940 |
| The Great Profile | Evans Garrick | 1940 |
| Midnight | Georges Flammarion | 1939 |
| The Great Man Votes | Gregory Vance / Vance | 1939 |
| Land of Liberty | (archive footage) | 1939 |
| Hold That Co-ed | Governor / Gabby Harrigan | 1938 |
| Spawn of the North | Windy Turlon | 1938 |
| Marie Antoinette | King Louis XV | 1938 |
| Hollywood Goes to Town | Himself / Self | 1938 |
| Romance in the Dark | Zoltan Jason | 1938 |
| Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Colonel Nielson / Colonel Neilson | 1938 |
| Bulldog Drummond's Revenge | Colonel Nielson / Col. J.A. Nielson | 1938 |
| True Confession | Charley Jasper / Charles "Charley" Jasper | 1937 |
| Night Club Scandal | Dr. Ernest Tindal / Dr. Ernest S. Tindal | 1937 |
| Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Colonel Neilson | 1937 |
| Maytime | Nicolai Nazaroff | 1937 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio - Kinsman to the Prince and Friend to Romeo / Mercutio | 1936 |
| Movie Maniacs | Photograph of John Barrymore | 1936 |
| Twentieth Century | Oscar Jaffe | 1934 |
| Long Lost Father | Carl Bellairs | 1934 |
| Counsellor at Law | George Simon | 1933 |
| Night Flight | Riviere | 1933 |
| Dinner at Eight | Larry Renault | 1933 |
| Reunion in Vienna | Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg / Archduke Rudolf von Habsburg | 1933 |
| Topaze | Professor Auguste A. Topaze | 1933 |
| Rasputin and the Empress | Prince Paul Chegodieff | 1932 |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield | 1932 |
| Grand Hotel | Baron Felix von Geigern / Baron Felix von Gaigern | 1932 |
| State's Attorney | Tom Cardigan | 1932 |
| Arsène Lupin | Duke of Charmerace | 1932 |
| The Mad Genius | Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov | 1931 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Svengali | Svengali | 1931 |
| Moby Dick | Captain Ahab Ceely / Ahab | 1930 |
| The Man from Blankley's | Lord Strathpeffer | 1930 |
| General Crack | Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian / Prince Christian Rudolph Augustus Kettlar, Duke of Kurland | 1929 |
| Show of Shows | Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' | 1929 |
| Eternal Love | Marcus Paltran | 1929 |
| Tempest | Sgt. Ivan Markov / Sergeant Ivan Markov | 1928 |
| The Circus: Premiere | Himself / Self | 1928 |
| Life in Hollywood No. 4 | Self | 1927 |
| The Beloved Rogue | François Villon | 1927 |
| When a Man Loves | Chevalier Fabien des Grieux | 1927 |
| Don Juan | Don Juan de Marana / Don Jose de Marana | 1926 |
| The Sea Beast | Captain Ahab Ceeley | 1926 |
| Vagabonding on the Pacific | Himself / Self | 1926 |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator | 1925 |
| Beau Brummel | Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel / George Bryon 'Beau' Brummel | 1924 |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1922 |
| The Lotus Eater | Jacques Leroi | 1921 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Mr. Edward Hyde / Dr. Henry Jekyll | 1920 |
| The Test of Honor | Martin Wingrave | 1919 |
| On the Quiet | Robert Ridgeway | 1918 |
| Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman | A.J. Raffles | 1917 |
| National Red Cross Pageant | The Tyrant - Russian episode | 1917 |
| The Red Widow | Cicero Hannibal Butts | 1916 |
| The Ring Widow | Cicero Hannibal Butts | 1916 |
| The Lost Bridegroom | Bertie Joyce | 1916 |
| Nearly a King | Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana | 1916 |
| The Man from Mexico | Fitzhugh | 1914 |
