Lionel Barrymore

• a.k.a. Lionel Herbert Blythe
• Lionel Blythe
• لیونل بریمور

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Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe) 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 entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.

Gender

male

Date of Birth

28 Apr 1878

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death

15 Nov 1954 (aged 76)