John Barrymore
Acting
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack. A member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Archival Footage
Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Hamlet (archive sound)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Horror of It All
Svengali (archive footage)
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
The Golden Twenties
Self (archive footage)
Okay for Sound
Don Juan (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self (archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Playmates
John Barrymore
World Premiere
Duncan DeGrasse
The Invisible Woman
Professor Gibbs
The Great Profile
Evans Garrick
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
The Green Goddess
Midnight
Georges Flammarion
The Great Man Votes
Vance
Hold That Co-ed
Gabby Harrigan
Spawn of the North
Windy Turlon
Marie Antoinette
King Louis XV
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
Romance in the Dark
Zoltan Jason
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Colonel Neilson
True Confession
Charles Jasper
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Col. J.A. Nielson
Night Club Scandal
Dr. Ernest Tindal
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Colonel Neilson
Maytime
Nicolai Nazaroff
Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
Movie Maniacs
Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe
Long Lost Father
Carl Bellairs
Counsellor at Law
George Simon
Dinner at Eight
Larry Renault
Night Flight
Riviere
Reunion in Vienna
Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
Hamlet
Topaze
Auguste A. Topaze
Rasputin and the Empress
Prince Paul Chegodieff
A Bill of Divorcement
Hilary Fairfield
Grand Hotel
Baron Felix von Gaigern
State's Attorney
Tom Cardigan
Arsène Lupin
Duke of Charmerace
The Mad Genius
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Svengali
Svengali
Moby Dick
Ahab
The Man from Blankley's
Lord Strathpeffer
General Crack
Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
The Show of Shows
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Eternal Love
Marcus Paltran
Tempest
Sergeant Ivan Markov
The Circus: Premiere
Self
Life in Hollywood No. 4
When a Man Loves
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
The Beloved Rogue
François Villon
Don Juan
Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
The Sea Beast
Captain Ahab Ceeley
Vagabonding On The Pacific
Himself
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Beau Brummel
Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
The Lotus Eater
Jacques Leroi
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
The Test of Honor
Martin Wingrave
Here Comes the Bride
Frederick Tile
On the Quiet
Robert Ridgeway
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
A.J. Raffles
National Red Cross Pageant
The Tyrant - Russian episode
The Red Widow
Cicero Hannibal Butts
The Lost Bridegroom
Bertie Joyce
Nearly a King
Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
The Incorrigible Dukane
James Dukane
The Dictator
Brooke Travers
Are You a Mason?
Frank Perry
The Man from Mexico
Fitzhugh
An American Citizen
Berresford Cruger
One on Romance
Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
A Prize Package
Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
Just Pretending
The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
The Widow Casey's Return
The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
The Dream of a Moving Picture Director
The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)