John Barrymore

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Twentieth Century Oscar Jaffe

(1934)

Svengali Svengali

(1931)

Dinner at Eight Larry Renault

(1933)

Grand Hotel Baron Felix von Geigern

(1932)

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Actor (67 credits)

2019 The Passion of Jekyll & Hyde
Henry Jekyll

1941 Playmates
John Barrymore

1941 World Premiere
Duncan DeGrasse

1940 The Invisible Woman
Professor Gibbs

1940 The Great Profile
Evans Garrick

1939 Midnight
Georges Flammarion

1939 The Great Man Votes
Gregory Vance

1938 Hold That Co-ed
Governor

1938 Spawn of the North
Windy Turlon

1938 Marie Antoinette
King Louis XV

1938 Romance in the Dark
Zoltan Jason

1938 Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Colonel Nielson

1937 True Confession
Charley Jasper

1937 Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Colonel Nielson

1937 Night Club Scandal
Dr. Ernest S. Tindal

1937 Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Colonel Neilson

1937 Maytime
Nicolai Nazaroff

1936 Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio - Kinsman to the Prince and Friend to Romeo

1936 Movie Maniacs (Short)
Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)

1934 Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe

1934 Long Lost Father
Carl Bellairs

1933 Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V (Short)
Hamlet

1933 Counsellor at Law
George Simon

1933 Night Flight
Riviere

1933 Dinner at Eight
Larry Renault

1933 Reunion in Vienna
Archduke Rudolf von Habsburg

1933/I Topaze
Professor Auguste A. Topaze

1932 Rasputin and the Empress
Prince Paul Chegodieff

1932 A Bill of Divorcement
Hilary Fairfield

1932 State's Attorney
Tom Cardigan

1932/I Grand Hotel
Baron Felix von Geigern

1932 Arsène Lupin
Duke of Charmerace

1931 The Mad Genius
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov

1931 Svengali
Svengali

1930 Moby Dick
Captain Ahab Ceely

1930 The Man from Blankley's
Lord Strathpeffer

1929 General Crack
Prince Christian Rudolph Augustus Kettlar, Duke of Kurland

1929 Show of Shows
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'

1929 Eternal Love
Marcus Paltran

1928 Tempest
Sgt. Ivan Markov

1927 The Beloved Rogue
François Villon

1927 When a Man Loves
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux

1926 Don Juan
Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana

1926 The Sea Beast
Captain Ahab Ceeley

1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1924 Beau Brummel
George Bryon 'Beau' Brummel

1922 Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

1921 The Lotus Eater
Jacques Leroi

1920/I Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1919 The Test of Honor
Martin Wingrave

1919 Here Comes the Bride
Frederick Tile

1918 On the Quiet
Robert Ridgeway

1917 National Red Cross Pageant
The Tyrant - Russian episode

1917 Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
A.J. Raffles

1916 The Red Widow (Short)
Cicero Hannibal Butts

1916 The Lost Bridegroom
Bertie Joyce

1916 Nearly a King
Jack Merriwell, Prince of Bulwana

1915 The Incorrigible Dukane (Short)
James Dukane

1915 The Dictator
Brooke Travers

1915 Are You a Mason?
Frank Perry

1914 The Man from Mexico
Fitzhugh

1914 An American Citizen (Short)
Berresford Cruger

1913 One on Romance (Short)
Jack Wilson (as Jack Barrymore)

1912 A Prize Package (Short)
Si Hawkins (as Jack Barrymore)

1912 Just Pretending (Short)
The Policeman (as Jack Barrymore)

1912 The Widow Casey's Return (Short)
The Rejected Suitor (as Jack Barrymore)

1912 The Dream of a Moving Picture Director (Short)
The Movie Villain (as Jack Barrymore)

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Soundtrack (4 credits)

1941 Playmates (performer: "Baa! Baa! Black Sheep")

1940 The Great Profile (performer: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (1896), "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum" (1881) - uncredited)

1932 A Bill of Divorcement (performer: "Unfinished Sonata" - uncredited)

1932 State's Attorney (performer: "The Wedding March" - uncredited)

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Writer (2 credits)

2020 Cineficción Radio (TV Series) (book "Confessions of an Actor" - 1 episode)

- 1920 (2020) ... (book "Confessions of an Actor")

1927 The Beloved Rogue (uncredited)

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Thanks (1 credit)

2009 The New Bike (Short) (acknowledgment)

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Self (8 credits)

1941/I Unusual Occupations (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1939 The Green Goddess (Short)
Self (rumored)

1938 Hollywood Goes to Town (Short documentary)
Self

1938 For Auld Lang Syne (Documentary short)
Self - Arriving Celebrity (uncredited)

1937 The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1928 The Circus: Premiere (Documentary short)
Self

1927 Life in Hollywood No. 4 (Documentary short)
Self

1926 Vagabonding on the Pacific (Short)
Self

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Archive footage (49 credits)

2015 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie (Short)
Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (uncredited)

2009 Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (Documentary)
Self

2008 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008) ... Self

2007 The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (Video documentary)
Don Juan de Marana

2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (Documentary)
Svengali (in "Svengali") (uncredited)

2005 Garbo (Documentary)
Baron Felix von Geigern

2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel (Video documentary short)
Self / Various roles

2003 Complicated Women (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2001-2002 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Self / Numerous screen roles

- The Barrymores (2002) ... Self / Numerous screen roles

- Carole Lombard: Hollywood's Profane Angel (2001) ... Self

1999 Film Breaks (TV Series documentary)
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

- Literally Horrific (1999) ... Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

- Man or Beast? (1999) ... Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1999 Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom (TV Movie documentary)
Hamlet

1998 Famous Families (TV Series documentary)
Self

- The Barrymores: Hollywood's Royal Family (1998) ... Self

1998 Universal Horror (TV Movie documentary)

1997 Judy Garland's Hollywood (Video documentary)

1995 The Casting Couch (Video documentary)

1991 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (Documentary)
Hamlet (uncredited)

1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s (Documentary)

1983 Historia del cine: Epoca muda (Video documentary)
Various roles

1983 The Horror of It All (TV Movie documentary)
Svengali (uncredited)

1978-1980 In Search of... (TV Series documentary)
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde / Svengali

- Moon Madness (1980) ... Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

- Hypnosis (1978) ... Svengali

1980 Hollywood (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Actor 'The Beloved Rogue'

- End of an Era (1980)

- Hazard of the Game (1980) ... Actor 'The Beloved Rogue' (uncredited)

1979 The Horror Show (TV Movie documentary)

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary)
Clip from 'Grand Hotel'

1976 It's Showtime (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary)
Self - film clips (uncredited)

1970 Hamlet Revisited: Approaches to Hamlet (TV Movie documentary)
Hamlet

1969 Hollywood: The Selznick Years (TV Movie documentary)
Actor 'Bill of Divorcement' (uncredited)

1968 Film Review (TV Mini-Series)
Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

- Changing Faces (1968) ... Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

1966 The Invisible Woman (Short)
Prof. Gibbs

1965 Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary)
Self

1965 Inside Daisy Clover
Self (uncredited)

1963-1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary)
Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / Self

- Monsters We've Known and Loved (1964) ... Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

- The Fabulous Musicals (1963) ... Self

1963 Fractured Flickers (TV Series)
Albert K. Seltzer

- Fabian (1963) ... Albert K. Seltzer

1962 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series)
Self

- Hollywood - My Home Town (1962) ... Self

1961 Hollywood: The Golden Years (TV Movie documentary)
Actor 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' (uncredited)

1961 The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (Video documentary)
Self

1959 The Twentieth Century (TV Series documentary)
Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926))

- The Movies Learn to Talk (1959) ... Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926))

1956 MGM Parade (TV Series documentary)
The Baron Felix von Gaigern in 'Grand Hotel'

- Episode #1.18 (1956) ... The Baron Felix von Gaigern in 'Grand Hotel'

1955 Some of the Greatest (Short)
Don Juan

1955 When the Talkies Were Young (Short)
Maestro Svengali (uncredited)

1954 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Baron Felix in 'Grand Hotel'

- MGM's 30th Anniversary Tribute (1954) ... Baron Felix in 'Grand Hotel'

1953 Yesterday and Today

1950 The Golden Twenties (Documentary)
Self

1949 Let's Go to the Movies (Documentary short)
Self - edited from 'Show of Shows' (uncredited)

1946 Okay for Sound (Documentary short)
Don Juan

1945 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (Documentary short)
Self

1944 Some of the Best (Documentary)
The Baron in Grand Hotel / Larry Renault in Dinner at Eight (uncredited)

1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World (Short)
Self (segments "Don Juan" & "Richard III") (uncredited)

1939 Land of Liberty

Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage: Appeared (as "Anatol") in "The Affairs of Anatol" on Broadway. Written by Arthur Schnitzler. Directed by George Foster Platt. Little Theatre: 14 Oct 1912-Dec 1912 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Marguerite Clark (as "Hilda"), Alfred De Ball (as "Waiter"), Albert Easdale (as "Franz"), Katherine Emmett (as "... See more »