Lionel barrymore artist biography
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Lionel Barrymore
American actor, director, screenwriter (–)
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, – November 15, ) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a spelfilm director.[1] He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul () and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life.
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Early life
[edit]Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born He
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Lionel Barrymore
Actor, director and composer Lionel Barrymore () was the eldest of three talented siblings who all found fame on the New York stage and in Hollywood motion pictures. Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore were scions of two acting dynasties, the Drews and the Barrymores. In his New York Times obituary, Lionel was quoted as saying members of his famous family had appeared on the scen for continuous years. Sixty years after his death, they continue to do so. Actress Drew Barrymore is Lionel’s great niece.
Barrymore made his reluctant stage debut aged fifteen appearing in a production of Sheridan’s The Rivals featuring his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew as Mrs Malaprop. Of his Broadway debut, Barrymore said ‘the theatre was not in my blood. I was related to the theatre by marriage only; it was merely a kind of in-law of mine I had to live with’. Both John and Ethel would become distinguished Shakespearean actors on Broadway &#; John in Hamlet and Ethel in Romeo and J • Once called "the most gifted character actor of our time" by Broadway theater producer Arthur Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore (–) was part of the illustrious Barrymore acting dynasty. Although he garnered success on stage and screen and was a talented actor, writer, director, visual artist, and composer, he never quite escaped the shadow of his family members—including his brother, John, famous for his leading roles. Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Actor in A Free Soul () and was nominated for Best Director for Madame X (). However, he is best known for his role as Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life () and as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge in radio broadcasts of A Christmas Carol from to He spent the last two decades of his career playing versions of his signature character—the curmudgeonly but lovable gentleman—in a variety of films from You Can't Take It With You () to Key Largo (). Barrymore worked alongside some of Hollywood's most recognizable n
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