Lionel Barrymore(1878-1954)

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Ex-President Andrew Jackson sends Texan Devereaux Burke back home on a mission to facilitate Sam Houston's drive for U.S. statehood.

Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon", "Fugue Fantasia", "In Memorium", "Hallowe'en", "Preludium & Fugue", "Elegie for Oboe, Orch.", "Farewell Symphony (1-act opera)", "Elegie (piano pieces)", "Rondo for Piano" and "Scherzo Grotesque".

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Won 1 Oscar
- 4 wins & 1 nomination total

Photos516

Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Diana Wynyard in Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Lionel Barrymore in The Thirteenth Hour (1927)

Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, and Phillips Holmes in Broken Lullaby (1932)

Lionel Barrymore in The Woman in Black (1914)

Lionel Barrymore in Woman Against Woman (1914)

Lionel Barrymore in Dorian's Divorce (1916)

Lionel Barrymore and Gertrude Astor in Wife Tamers (1926)

Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, and Kate Bruce in Just Gold (1913)

Lionel Barrymore and Irene Howley in A Yellow Streak (1915)

Lionel Barrymore in A Yellow Streak (1915)

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James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Samuel S. Hinds, Donald Meek, Ann Miller, and H.B. Warner in You Can't Take It with You (1938)

You Can't Take It with You

7.8

Martin Vanderhof

1938

Key Largo

7.7

James Temple

1948

It's a Wonderful Life

8.6

Mr. Potter

1946

A Free Soul

6.6

Stephen Ashe

1931

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Our Mr. Sun
- Father Time (voice)
- TV Movie
- 1956
Main Street to Broadway
- Lionel Barrymore
- 1953
Lone Star
- Andrew Jackson
- 1952
Bannerline
- Hugo Trimble
- 1951
Right Cross
- Sean O'Malley
- 1950
Malaya
- John Manchester
- 1949
Down to the Sea in Ships
- Capt. Bering Joy
- 1949
Key Largo
- James Temple
- 1948
Dark Delusion
- Dr. Leonard Gillespie
- 1947
Duel in the Sun
- Sen. Jackson McCanles
- 1946
The Secret Heart
- Dr. Rossiger
- 1946
It's a Wonderful Life
- Mr. Potter
- 1946
Three Wise Fools
- Dr. Richard Gaunght
- 1946
The Valley of Decision
- Pat Rafferty
- 1945
Between Two Women
- Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie
- 1945

Director

Guilty Hands
- Director (uncredited)
- 1931
Ten Cents a Dance
- Director
- 1931
The Sea Bat
- Director (uncredited)
- 1930
Redemption
- Director (retakes, uncredited)
- 1930
The Rogue Song
- Director
- 1930
His Glorious Night
- Director
- 1929
The Unholy Night
- Director
- 1929
Madame X
- Director
- 1929
Confession
- Director
- Short
- 1929
Life's Whirlpool
- Director
- 1917
Chocolate Dynamite
- Director
- Short
- 1914
Just Boys
- Director
- Short
- 1914
No Place for Father
- Director
- Short
- 1913
Where's the Baby?
- Director
- Short
- 1913
His Secret
- Director
- Short
- 1913

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- Lionel Blythe
- 6′ (1.83 m)
- April 28, 1878
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- November 15, 1954
- Van Nuys, California, USA(heart attack)
Other works
Stage: Appeared (as "Frank Turner"; Broadway debut) in "Sag Harbor" on Broadway. Drama. Written by James A. Herne [final Broadway credit]. Scenic Design by Frank E. Gates, E.A. Morange and Ernest Albert. Theatre Republic: (closing date unknown/76 performances). Cast: Marion Abbott, T.H. Burke, John D. Garrick, Robert Gillig, Chrystal Herne, James A. Herne, Julia A. Herne (as "Martha Reese"), William T. Hodge, Harriett McDonald, Frank Monroe [Broadway debut], C. Dibden Pitt, Margaret Dibden (as "Pitt"), Mollie Revel, Forrest Robinson (as "Ben Turner"), Mrs. Sol Smith.
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Trivia
Invented the boom microphone.

Quotes
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

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