EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
Barrymore was born on Feb 15th, 1882 in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandmother,a prominent and well-respected 19th century actress and theater manager, who instilled in him and his siblings the ways of acting and theatre life.
1882 - 1942
Stats:
Bith Name:
John Sidney Blyth
Height: 5' 10"
Eye Color: blue
Hair Color: brown
Nickname: Jack
Quote: "There are lots of methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice."
Bith Name:
John Sidney Blyth
Height: 5' 10"
Eye Color: blue
Hair Color: brown
Nickname: Jack
Quote: "There are lots of methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice."
Barrymore entered films around 1914 with the feature "An American Citizen". Barrymore was most likely convinced into giving films a try out of economic necessity and the fact that he hated touring in plays all over the United States. He also may have been goaded into films by his brother Lionel and his uncle Sidney, who had both been successfully making movies for a couple of years. Some of Barrymore's silent film roles included A. J. Raffles in "Raffles the Amateur Cracksman" (1917), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920), "Sherlock Holmes" (1922), "Beau Brummel" (1924), "Captain Ahab in The Sea Beast" (1926), and "Don Juan" (1926).
When talking pictures arrived, Barrymore's stage-trained voice added a new dimension to his screen work. He made his talkie debut with a dramatic reading of the big Richard III speech from Henry VI, part 2 in Warner Brothers' musical revue "The Show of Shows", and reprised his Captain Ahab role in "Moby Dick" (1930).
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John Barrymore's Selected Filmography
(1914) An American Citizen
(1914) The Man from Mexico
(1915) Are You a Mason?
(1915) The Dictator
(1915) The Incorrigible Dukane
(1916) Nearly a King
(1916) The Lost Bridegroom
(1916) The Red Widow
(1917) Raffles
(1918) National Red Cross Pageant
(1918) On the Quiet
(1919) Here Comes the Bride
(1919) The Test of Honor
(1920) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1921) The Lotus Eater
(1922) Sherlock Holmes
(1924) Beau Brummel
(1926) The Sea Beast
(1926) Don Juan
(1927) When a Man Loves
(1927) The Beloved Rogue
(1928) Tempest
(1929) Eternal Love
(1929) The Show of Shows
(1930) General Crack
(1930) The Man from Blankley's
(1930) Moby Dick
(1931) Svengali
(1931) The Mad Genius
(1932) Arsène Lupin
(1932) Grand Hotel
(1932) State's Attorney
(1932) A Bill of Divorcement
(1932) Rasputin and the Empress
(1933) Topaze
(1933) Reunion in Vienna
(1933) Dinner at Eight
(1933) Night Flight
(1933) Counsellor at Law
(1934) Long Lost Father
(1934) Twentieth Century
(1936) Romeo and Juliet
(1937) Maytime
(1937) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
(1937) Night Club Scandal
(1937) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
(1937) True Confession
(1938) Bulldog Drummond's Peril
(1938) Romance in the Dark
(1938) Marie Antoinette
(1938) Spawn of the North
(1938) Hold That Co-ed
(1939) The Great Man Votes
(1939) Midnight
(1940) The Great Profile
(1940) The Invisible Woman
(1941) World Premiere
(1941) Playmates
(1914) The Man from Mexico
(1915) Are You a Mason?
(1915) The Dictator
(1915) The Incorrigible Dukane
(1916) Nearly a King
(1916) The Lost Bridegroom
(1916) The Red Widow
(1917) Raffles
(1918) National Red Cross Pageant
(1918) On the Quiet
(1919) Here Comes the Bride
(1919) The Test of Honor
(1920) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1921) The Lotus Eater
(1922) Sherlock Holmes
(1924) Beau Brummel
(1926) The Sea Beast
(1926) Don Juan
(1927) When a Man Loves
(1927) The Beloved Rogue
(1928) Tempest
(1929) Eternal Love
(1929) The Show of Shows
(1930) General Crack
(1930) The Man from Blankley's
(1930) Moby Dick
(1931) Svengali
(1931) The Mad Genius
(1932) Arsène Lupin
(1932) Grand Hotel
(1932) State's Attorney
(1932) A Bill of Divorcement
(1932) Rasputin and the Empress
(1933) Topaze
(1933) Reunion in Vienna
(1933) Dinner at Eight
(1933) Night Flight
(1933) Counsellor at Law
(1934) Long Lost Father
(1934) Twentieth Century
(1936) Romeo and Juliet
(1937) Maytime
(1937) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
(1937) Night Club Scandal
(1937) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
(1937) True Confession
(1938) Bulldog Drummond's Peril
(1938) Romance in the Dark
(1938) Marie Antoinette
(1938) Spawn of the North
(1938) Hold That Co-ed
(1939) The Great Man Votes
(1939) Midnight
(1940) The Great Profile
(1940) The Invisible Woman
(1941) World Premiere
(1941) Playmates
Full Movie: A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.. - Taken from IMDB
His other leads included "The Man from Blankley's" (1930), "Svengali" (1931), "The Mad Genius" (1931), "Grand Hotel" (1932) (in which he displays an affectionate chemistry with his brother Lionel), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Topaze" (1933) and "Twentieth Century" (1934).
Much of his occurring health problems most likely stemmed from his consumption of bad and sometimes nearly poisonous illegal alcohol during the period of Prohibition in the United States. In the late 1930s, Barrymore began to lose his ability to remember his lines, and his diminished abilities were apparent in a surviving screen test that he made for an aborted film version of Hamlet in 1934. From then on, he insisted on reading his dialogue from cue cards.
In 1942, Barrymore collapsed while appearing on Rudy Vallee's radio show and died some days later in his hospital room. His dying words were "Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."He was buried in East Los Angeles, at Calvary Cemetery. Years later, Barrymore's son John (father of actress Drew Barrymore), had the body reinterred at Philadelphia's Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Early Days Productions: John Barrymore 04/01/2012
