Ad
related to: john drew barrymore
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
John Drew Barrymore (born John Blyth Barrymore Jr.; June 4, 1932 – November 29, 2004) was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress Drew Barrymore.
The Barrymore family, and the related Drew family, form a British-American acting dynasty which traces its acting roots to the mid-19th century London stage. After migrating across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States, members of the family subsequently appeared in motion pictures, beginning with the silent film period of the 1890s to 1929 and then into the modern era of sound film.
John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) [a] was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist, but appeared on stage together with his father Maurice in 1900, and then his sister Ethel the following year.
Drew’s father, the late John Drew Barrymore, was arrested several times for drug use, drunkenness and spousal abuse. Her grandfather John Barrymore struggled with alcohol abuse from the age of 14.
Drew Barrymore shared a candid post about her late dad, actor John Barrymore, and opened up about what it was like growing up with an unconventional and at times complicated father. Barrymore ...
Drew Barrymore is sharing a moving moment involving her daughter and “50 First Dates.”. While the 2004 rom-com left critics cold, Barrymore’s onscreen reunion with Adam Sandler was so ...
Her second child, John Drew Barrymore, was born on June 4, 1932, but the marriage proved difficult due to her husband's increasing alcoholism, and they divorced in 1935. [6] [7] She resumed her career a year later and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
Steven Spielberg has always been a father figure to Drew Barrymore, but he actually said no when Barrymore asked him to be her real father during the making of their 1982 classic “E.T. the Extra ...