BARRYMORE, Lionel [1878-1954] -- American actor, composer, &c, Academy Award

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né BLYTHE, Lionel Herbert

Academy Award (1931: Best Actor: A Free Soul )
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (two)

He abandoned early plans of a career as an artist for acting, despite professing a loathing of that profession. From 1938 he acted from a wheelchair due to a hip injury and advancing arthritis.

Despite Barrymore's nomination for an Academy Award as Best Director, Leonard Maltin names Madame X as among the worst films ever made.

Chronology

1905/03	Father, Maurice Barrymore, dies
1908	Screen debut: The Paris Hat
1913	He plays in an astoundinng 44 (mostly) D.W. Griffith 1- and 2-reelers
1929	Invents the boom microphone (Madame X)
1931	Academy Award
1938-1947	Plays Dr. Gillespie in a popular series of "Dr. Kildare" films
1945	First oscar-winning brother and sister (with Ethel)

Selected Works

Christopher Bean (1933 film)

The Copperhead (1920 film)

David Copperfield (1935 film Dan Peggotty)

Halloween: A Musical Fairy Tale (1946 score)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946 film Mr. Potter)

Key Largo (1948 film James Temple)

Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale (1953 novel)

Peter Ibbetson (1917 film)

Preludium and Fugue (1944 score)

Scherzo Grotesque

The story of Dr. Kildare (1950-1951 radio show Dr. Gillespie)

Tableau Russe (1940 score)

Treasure Island (1934 film Billy Bones)

Two Compositions for Piano (1945 score)

We Barrymores (1951 autobiography)

Associated

Father: ¤BARRYMORE, Maurice [1849-1905] Anglo-American actor, playwright
Mother: ¤BARRYMORE, Georgie [1855-1893] American actress
Sister: ¤BARRYMORE, Ethel [1879-1959] American actress, Academy Award
Brother: ¤BARRYMORE, John [1882-1942] American actor
Wife 1: ¤RANKIN, Doris [1888-1946] American actress
Wife 2: ¤FENWICK, Irene [1877-1936] American actress

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