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John Barrymore
Known for: ActingJohn 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.
Filmography 28
Grand Hotel
as Baron Felix von Gaigern 
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) 
Dinner at Eight
as Larry Renault 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde 
Marie Antoinette
as King Louis XV 
The Invisible Woman
as Professor Gibbs 
Rasputin and the Empress
as Prince Paul Chegodieff 
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) 
Romeo and Juliet
as Mercutio 
Maytime
as Nicolai Nazaroff 
Night Flight
as Riviere 
Twentieth Century
as Oscar Jaffe 
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage 
The Horror of It All
as Svengali (archive footage) 
Midnight
as Georges Flammarion 
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
as Col. J.A. Nielson 
Synthwave Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde 
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Colonel Neilson 
Moby Dick
as Ahab 
When a Man Loves
as Chevalier Fabien des Grieux 
A Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary Fairfield 
Svengali
as Svengali 
The Mad Genius
as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov 
State's Attorney
as Tom Cardigan 
The Beloved Rogue
as François Villon 
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Colonel Neilson 
Eternal Love
as Marcus Paltran 
Movie Maniacs
as Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)