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. Barrymores 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.
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Film 1920
Oscar Jaffe
Film 1934
Baron Felix von Gaigern
Film 1932
Prince Paul Chegodieff
Film 1932
Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)
Film 1913
The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)
Film 1912
The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)
Film 1912
The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)
Film 1912
Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)
Film 1912
Brooke Travers
Film 1915
Fitzhugh
Film 1914
James Dukane
Film 1915
Cicero Hannibal Butts
Film 1916
Robert Ridgeway
Film 1918
Frederick Tile
Film 1919
Nicolai Nazaroff
Film 1937
Martin Wingrave
Film 1919
Mercutio
Film 1936
Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Film 1936
Self (archive footage)
Film 1974
(archive footage)
Film 1953
Colonel Neilson
Film 1937
Svengali
Film 1931
Larry Renault
Film 1933
Film 1927
George Simon
Film 1933
Sherlock Holmes
Film 1922
Self (archive footage)
Film 1961
Riviere
Film 1933
Windy Turlon
Film 1938
Sergeant Ivan Markov
Film 1928
Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
Film 1926
Marcus Paltran
Film 1929
François Villon
Film 1927
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux
Film 1927
Self (archive footage)
Film 1972
Tom Cardigan
Film 1932
Charles Jasper
Film 1937
Colonel Neilson
Film 1938
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Film 1931
Evans Garrick
Film 1940
Duke of Charmerace
Film 1932
The Tyrant - Russian episode
Film 1917
Auguste A. Topaze
Film 1933
Himself
Film 1926
Archduke Rudolf von Hapsburg
Film 1933
A.J. Raffles
Film 1917
Ahab
Film 1930
Captain Ahab Ceeley
Film 1926
John Barrymore
Film 1941
Carl Bellairs
Film 1934
Self (archive footage)
Film 1942
Self (archive footage)
Film 1945
Duke of Kurland / Prince Christian
Film 1929
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Film 2004
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Film 1929
(archive footage)
Film 1984
'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1961
Svengali (archive footage)
Film 1983
Vance
Film 1939
Self
Film 1928
(archive footage)
Film 1939
Self (archive footage)
Film 1950
Dr. Ernest Tindal
Film 1937
Duncan DeGrasse
Film 1941
Lord Strathpeffer
Film 1930
Jacques Leroi
Film 1921
Self
Film 1938
Self (archive footage)
Film 2003
Zoltan Jason
Film 1938
Don Juan (archive footage)
Film 1946
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Film 1943
Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana
Film 1916
Bertie Joyce
Film 1916
Self (archive footage)
Film 1976
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Film 1925
Hamlet
Film 1933
Berresford Cruger
Film 1914
Frank Perry
Film 1915