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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.
John Blyth Barrymore III was born to John Drew Barrymore and Cara Williams. [1] As such, he is from the famous Barrymore family: He is the half-brother of American actress Drew Barrymore, as well as the grandnephew of Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore. [2] He is of partial Irish descent through his great-grandfather, actor Maurice Costello.
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.
Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore and the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, among other members of the Barrymore family.
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.
Barrymore drew a caricature of himself and Ethel in A Slice of Life, 1912 Mary Young, John Barrymore and Frank Campeau in Believe Me, Xantippe, 1913 Barrymore (right) with his brother Lionel in The Jest, 1919 Barrymore as Richard III, 1920 Violet Kemble-Cooper and Barrymore in Clair de Lune, 1921 Barrymore as Hamlet, 1922
Drew Barrymore's family is Hollywood royalty and during her recent Hot Ones challenge, she confirmed the bizarre rumor that her grandfather, John Barrymore's, body was stolen from the morgue by ...
19th century stage actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew were the parents of actors Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. John was the father of actor John Drew Barrymore by his third wife, actress Dolores Costello, and actress Diana Barrymore by his second wife, actress Blanche Oelrichs. Actor John Drew Barrymore first married actress Cara ...