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Quotes I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn`t care what he believed. Why, the fact that he was an actor made everything he said open to question, because acting was thought to be a vocation embraced exclusively by scatter-brains, wastrels and scamps. I don`t believed that`s true today and I don`t think that it ever was. I`ve got a lot of ham in me. This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. [1943 comment on Margaret O`Brien] If that child had been born in the middle ages, she`d have been burned as a witch.Trivia He and his sister Ethel Barrymore were the first Oscar-winning brother and sister in acting categories. He was one of the very few screen actors in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s who had a prolific career despite being in a wheelchair. From 1938, his screen roles were written to accommodate his disability. In 1930, he lived at 802 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. In the 1960s cartoon series "Underdog" (1964), Underdog`s nemesis, Simon Bar Sinister, has a voice reminiscent of Barrymore. Invented the boom microphone. Started as a stock player at the Biograph Company. His first film was The Paris Hat (1908), which seems to be a lost Biograph film. His second film was Fighting Blood (1911), produced by the Biograph Company in 1911. Uncle of John Drew Barrymore, Diana Barrymore, Samuel Colt, Ethel Colt, and John Drew Colt. Acted from wheelchair from 1938 due to the effects of arthritis and hip injury. Great uncle of Drew Barrymore. He played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" on the radio annually. He was buried a Roman Catholic next to his second wife and his brother, John Barrymore, in Calvary Cemetery, Hollywood. His name appeared in the Looney Toons Cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955) (directed by Chuck Jones) in a newspaper on a park bench before the distraught man was sent to a psychiatric ward because the frog would not sing in front of anyone else. Portrayed Dr. Gillespie on the syndicated radio show "The Story of Dr. Kildare" (1950-1951). Reared Roman Catholic by their mother, the three Barrymore siblings all had suffered the stigma of divorce (doubtless connected to the family business) and only Ethel Barrymore was a practicing Catholic in adulthood. Screen, stage, radio, vaudeville actor, film producer, and screenwriter. Son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore; grandson of Louisa Drew and stage actor John Drew (1827-62); nephew of Sidney Drew; cousin of S. Rankin Drew. Fathered two daughters: Ethel (1909-1910) and Mary (1916- 1917). The three Barrymore siblings appeared in only one film together: Rasputin and the Empress (1932). Lionel and John appeared without Ethel in Arsène Lupin (1932), Grand Hotel (1932), Night Flight (1933) and Dinner at Eight (1933). A decade after John`s demise, Lionel and Ethel appeared in Main Street to Broadway (1953), Lionel`s last film. | ||
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