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Apr 28, 1878 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 15 Nov 1954 (aged 76)
American actor, director, screenwriter
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About Lionel Barrymore
- 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 focussing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr.
- Kildare.
- He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
