Lionel Barrymore
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican actor, director, screenwriter (1878-1954)
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Lionel Barrymore 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 is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
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Photos 10
Young Lionel with John, Ethel, and their mother (1890)
Barrymore, 1906
Lionel and first wife Doris (in rocking chair) in the 1920 silent film The Devil's Garden
Lionel Barrymore and Alma Rubens in Enemies of Women (1923)
With second wife Irene Fenwick, 1923
Portraying Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Hosting "Concert Hall" for Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II, c. 1942Filmography 40
It's a Wonderful Life
Key Largo
You Can't Take It with You
Grand Hotel
Duel in the Sun
Captains Courageous
Camille
Mark of the Vampire
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Dinner at Eight
Test Pilot
The Devil-Doll
Treasure Island
That's Entertainment!
David Copperfield
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Mata Hari
A Guy Named Joe
Since You Went Away
That's Entertainment, Part II
A Free Soul
West of Zanzibar
Broken Lullaby
Sadie Thompson
The Little Colonel
The Stranger's Return
Judith of Bethulia
The Valley of Decision
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
On Borrowed Time
Lone Star
Death's Marathon
The New York Hat
The Stars Look Down
Saratoga
Arsène Lupin
Night Flight
The Temptress
The Mysterious Island
Down to the Sea in Ships265 credits on file
Television 2
The Ed Sullivan Show
MGM ParadeAwards 2
In their orbit 6
Connected to Lionel 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1878 to 1954 · aged 76
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32 languages
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