Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

April 28, 1878

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of…

Known For

21 titles
1
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

8.6
2
Key Largo

Key Largo

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

7.7
3
You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · 2h 6m · Movie

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

7.8
4
Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

1932 · 1h 52m · Movie

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

7.3
5
Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

1937 · 1h 57m · Movie

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

7.9
6
Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

1946 · 2h 9m · Movie

Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.

6.7
7
Camille

Camille

1936 · 1h 49m · Movie

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

7.3
8
Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire

1935 · 1h 0m · Movie

When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.

6.3
9
The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll

1936 · 1h 18m · Movie

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.

7.0
10
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944 · 2h 57m · Movie

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

7.5
11
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

1935 · 2h 10m · Movie

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

7.3
12
Test Pilot

Test Pilot

1938 · 1h 59m · Movie

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

6.8
13
On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

1939 · 1h 39m · Movie

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.

7.7
14
Saratoga

Saratoga

1937 · 1h 32m · Movie

After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.

6.5
15
Lone Star

Lone Star

1952 · 1h 34m · Movie

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

6.2
16
Night Flight

Night Flight

1933 · 1h 24m · Movie

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

6.2
17
Guilty Hands

Guilty Hands

1931 · 1h 9m · Movie

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

6.9
18
Ten Cents a Dance

Ten Cents a Dance

1931 · 1h 15m · Movie

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.

6.5
19
Redemption

Redemption

1930 · 1h 15m · Movie

Fedya wins Lisa away from her fiance, Victor Karenin. But after Fedya weds Lisa, he becomes infatuated with a gypsy girl, Masha. His duplicity leads to tragedy.

5.6
20
The Bells

The Bells

1926 · 1h 8m · Movie

An innkeeper murders a wealthy guest to pay off his debt, but his conscience will not allow him to get away with the crime so easily.

6.4
21
Three Wise Fools

Three Wise Fools

1946 · 1h 30m · Movie

40 years since Richard, James, and Theodore insulted 'The O'Monahan' and he put a vexing blessing on them, all three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in one house as bachelors. Into this grand house comes ...

6.5