Lionel Barrymore
Actor, director, screenwriter
Died when: 76 years 201 days (918 months)Star Sign: Taurus
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 villainous Mr.
Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades.
He is also known for playing Dr.Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr.Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled The Story of Dr.
Kildare.He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
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