Lionel Barrymore - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Lionel Barrymore

★ Acting🎥 244 films📺 4 TV shows📅 1905–2008🔥 1

Also known as: Lionel Herbert Blythe, Lionel Blythe, لیونل بریمور

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1878-04-28 (age 76 at death)

Died 1954-11-15

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.