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Lionel Barrymore
Actor + Director + Screenwriter
Male
Born
Apr 28, 1878
Hometown
Philadelphia
Died
Nov 15, 1954
Death Place
California
Other Names
Blythe, Lionel He...
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains perhaps best known for the role of the villainous Henry Potter character in Frank Capra's… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1878
Birth
Born on April 28, 1878.
TWENTIES
1905
27 Years Old
In 1905 Lionel and his siblings, John and Ethel, were all being groomed under the tutelage of Frohman.
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THIRTIES
1910
32 Years Old
In 1910, after he and Doris had spent many years in Paris, Lionel came back to Broadway, where he established his reputation as a dramatic and character actor.
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1911
33 Years Old
Barrymore began making films about 1911 with D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Studios.
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1915
37 Years Old
In 1915 he co-starred with Lillian Russell in a movie called Wildfire, one of the legendary Russell's few film appearances.
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FORTIES
1920
42 Years Old
In early 1920, Barrymore reprised his title role in the stage play, The Copperhead (1920), in a Paramount Artcraft film of the same name.
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Lionel never truly recovered from the deaths of his girls, and their loss undoubtedly strained his marriage to Doris Rankin, which ended in 1923.
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Before the formation of MGM in 1924, Barrymore forged a good relationship with Louis B. Mayer early on at Metro Pictures.
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1926
48 Years Old
After 1926, however, he worked almost exclusively for MGM, appearing opposite such luminaries as John Gilbert, Lon Chaney, Sr., Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and his brother John.
FIFTIES
1928
50 Years Old
On the occasional loan-out, Barrymore had a big success with Gloria Swanson in 1928's Sadie Thompson and the aforementioned Griffith film, Drums of Love.
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1930
52 Years Old
In that year, he won an Academy Award for his role as an alcoholic lawyer in A Free Soul (1931), after being nominated in 1930 for Best Director for Madame X.
1932
54 Years Old
He could play many characters, like the evil Rasputin in the 1932 Rasputin and the Empress (in which he co-starred with siblings John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore) and the ailing Oliver Jordan in Dinner at Eight (1933 – also with John Barrymore, although they had no scenes together).
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1945
67 Years Old
Barrymore was also a prolific composer. His works ranged from solo piano pieces to large-scale orchestral works, such as "Tableau Russe." His piano compositions, "Scherzo Grotesque" and "Song Without Words", were published by G. Schirmer in 1945.
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1954
77 Years Old
Lionel Barrymore died on November 15, 1954 from a heart attack in Van Nuys, California, and was entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.
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