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Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) was an American actor of stage, screen, and radio. He also directed several films, wrote scripts, created etchings, sketches, and composed music. He was the eldest child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and his two siblings were John and Ethel; these and other family members were part of an acting dynasty. Reluctant to follow his parents' career, Barrymore appeared together with his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew in a stage production of The Rivals at the age of 15. He soon found success on stage in character roles. Although he took a break from acting in 1906–1909 to train in Paris as a painter, he was not successful as an artist, and returned to the US and acting. He also joined his family troupe, from 1910, in their vaudeville act. Barrymore began his film career in 1911, appearing in numerous silent films, many of which have subsequently been lost. In 1911, he signed a contract with the Biograph Company and appeared as a character actor in short films, many of them directed by D. W. Griffith, before moving into feature-length productions in 1914. He began writing scripts and directing films shortly afterwards, and for the next five years, he did not act on the legitimate stage. Although he had several successes on Broadway after the First World War, he encountered strongly negative criticism in a 1921 production of Macbeth, and in three productions in a row in 1925. Afterwards, he never again appeared on the New York stage. In 1925, he signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a close friend of Louis B. Mayer, for whom he made numerous films. He directed several films from 1929 to 1931, but concentrated on acting afterwards. Barrymore became well known in curmudgeonly roles. In 1938, he broke his hip, and, aggravated by arthritis, he lived the remainder of his life in a wheelchair. Mayer made sure that roles were found or written to accommodate Barrymore, who continued to act in films until 1953. During that time, he appeared as Dr. Gillespie in the popular Dr. Kildare film series, with Lew Ayres in the titular role, and as Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life—a role that was highly placed on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Heroes and Villains in a film that the critic Philip French described as "a complex inspirational work". Beginning in the 1930s, Barrymore increasingly worked in radio, initially as Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which was broadcast annually from 1934 to 1953, then in Mayor of the Town, beginning in 1942, and also in a radio series spun off from the Dr. Kildare films (playing the same character that he had played in the films), among others. Two of the films in which Barrymore appeared—Grand Hotel (1932), and You Can't Take It with You (1938)—won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He was considered for the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1929 film, Madame X, and won the Best Actor award for his performance in A Free Soul (1931). He was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, and is, along with his two siblings, included in the American Theater Hall of Fame. (en) Lionel Barrymore (lahir Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) adalah seorang aktor panggung, layar dan radio Amerika. Ia juag menyutradarai beberapa film, menulis naskah, membuat etching, sketsa dan mengkomposisikan musik. Ia adalah anak sulung dari pasangan pemeran dan , dan dua adiknya adalah John dan Ethel; mereka dan para anggota keluarga lainnya adalah bagian dari sebuah . Mengikuti karier orangtuanya, Barrymore tampil bersama dengan neneknya dalam sebuah produksi panggung dari pada usia 15 tahun. Ia kemudian meraih kesuksesan di atas panggung dalam peran-peran karakter. Meskipun ia mengambil cuti dari akting pada 1906–09 untuk berlatih di Paris sebagai pelukis, ia tak berhasil menjadi seniman dan kembali ke AS dan berakting. Ia juga bergabung dengan kelompok keluarganya, dari 1910, dalam acara vaudeville mereka. Barrymore memulai karier filmnya pada 1911, tampil dalam sejumlah film bisu, beberapa diantaranya kemudian hilang. Pada 1912, ia menandatangani kontrak dengan milik D. W. Griffith dan tampil sebagai pemeran karakter dalam film-film pendek sebelum berpindah ke produksi jangka fitur pada 1914. Ia mulai menulis naskah dan menyutradarai film tak lama setelahnya, dan selama lima tahun berikutnya, ia tak bertindak pada tahap sah. Meskipun ia meraih beberapa kesuksesan di Broadway setelah Perang Dunia Pertama, ia sangat mendorong kritikan negatif dalam produksi tahun 1921 Macbeth dan dalam tiga produksi berturut-turut pada 1925. Setelah itu, ia tak pernah kembali muncul pada panggung New York. Pada 1925, ia menandatangani kontrak dengan Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dimana ia menjadi teman dekat Louis B. Mayer dan dimana ia membuat sejumlah film. Ia menyutradarai beberapa film dari 1929 sampai 1931 namun berkonsentrasi pada akting setelah itu. Barrymore menjadi dikenal dalam peran-peran kikir. Pada 1938, ia mematahkan pinggulnya, mengalami artriris, dan menjalani sisa hidupnya di kursi roda. Mayer meneruskan peran-peran yang dihimpun atau ditulis untuk diberikan kepada Barrymore, yang masih berakting dalam perfilman sampai 1953. Pada waktu itu, ia tampil sebagai Dr. Gillespie dalam serial film Dr. Kildare populer dengan Lew Ayres dalam peran utama, dan sebagai dalam It's a Wonderful Life—sebuah peran yang sangat ditempatkan pada daftar American Film Institute dari 100 Heroes and Villains dalam sebuah film yang kritikus Philip French sebut sebagai "karya inspirasional kompleks". Bermula pada 1930-an, Barrymore makin sering berkarya di radio, awalnya sebagai Ebenezer Scrooge dalam karya Charles Dickens, yang disiarkan setiap tahun dari 1934 sampai 1953, kemudian dalam yang bermula pada 1942, dan juga dalam serial radio yang merupakan produk lepas dari serial film Dr. Kildare (memainkan karakter yang sama dengan yang ia mainkan dalam serial film tersebut), dan lain-lain. Dua film dimana Barrymore tampil—Grand Hotel (1932) dan You Can't Take It with You (1938)—memenangkan Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik. Ia dikonsiderasikan pada Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik tahun film tahun 1929 buatannya, Madame X, dan memenangkan penghargaan Aktor Terbaik untuk penampilannya dalam A Free Soul (1931). Ia masuk dalam Hollywood Walk of Fame pada 8 Februari 1960 dan, bersama dengan dua saudaranya, masuk dalam . (in) |
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Ad for Dorian's Divorce, 1916 (en) Ad for The Millionaire's Double, 1917 (en) Ad for The Quitter, 1916 (en) Barrymore , with his siblings John and Ethel, 1904 (en) Barrymore in 1923 (en) Barrymore in Ah, Wilderness!, 1935 (en) Barrymore in Camille, 1936 (en) Barrymore in July 1921 (en) Barrymore in The Bad Man, 1941 (en) Barrymore in The Copperhead, 1920 (en) Barrymore in a trailer for David Copperfield, 1935 (en) Barrymore with his brother John in The Jest, September 1919 (en) Poster for A Family Affair, 1937 (en) Poster for Three Friends, 1913 (en) The Wanderer, 1913 (en) Barrymore celebrating his 61st birthday in 1939. Back, from left: Mickey Rooney, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, William Powell, and Robert Taylor; center: Louis B. Mayer; front, from left: Norma Shearer, Barrymore, and Rosalind Russell. (en) Barrymore and Seena Owen in The Face in the Fog, 1922 (en) Barrymore as Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946 (en) Barrymore in 1946 on the set of Duel in the Sun with, from the left, Helen Hayes, Anita Loos, and Lillian Gish. (en) Lantern slide for The Devil's Garden, 1920; Barrymore—on the right—appeared with his wife, Doris Rankin, who sits on the left. (en) |
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Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) was an American actor of stage, screen, and radio. He also directed several films, wrote scripts, created etchings, sketches, and composed music. He was the eldest child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and his two siblings were John and Ethel; these and other family members were part of an acting dynasty. Reluctant to follow his parents' career, Barrymore appeared together with his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew in a stage production of The Rivals at the age of 15. He soon found success on stage in character roles. Although he took a break from acting in 1906–1909 to train in Paris as a painter, he was not successful as an artist, and returned to the US and acting. He also joined his family troupe, from 1910 (en) Lionel Barrymore (lahir Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) adalah seorang aktor panggung, layar dan radio Amerika. Ia juag menyutradarai beberapa film, menulis naskah, membuat etching, sketsa dan mengkomposisikan musik. Ia adalah anak sulung dari pasangan pemeran dan , dan dua adiknya adalah John dan Ethel; mereka dan para anggota keluarga lainnya adalah bagian dari sebuah . Mengikuti karier orangtuanya, Barrymore tampil bersama dengan neneknya dalam sebuah produksi panggung dari pada usia 15 tahun. Ia kemudian meraih kesuksesan di atas panggung dalam peran-peran karakter. Meskipun ia mengambil cuti dari akting pada 1906–09 untuk berlatih di Paris sebagai pelukis, ia tak berhasil menjadi seniman dan kembali ke AS dan berakting. Ia juga bergabung dengan kelompok keluarganya, dari 1910, da (in) |
