Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 28, 1878
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Lionel Herbert Blythe
- Lionel Blythe
- لیونل بریمور
Lionel Barrymore
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.
Known For - Movies
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mr. Potter
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Dinner at Eight
as Oliver Jordan
Key Largo
as James Temple
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Guy Named Joe
as The General
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Duel in the Sun
as Sen. Jackson McCanles
