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Birthdate: April 28, 1878
Death date: November 15, 1954
Lionel Barrymore
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.1236
40
1930s
4.0000
47
1940s
2.5529
29
1950s
No Reviews
5
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5889
2.5889
Lionel Barrymore Movie Rankings
1
3.6399George Bailey is a selfless man in turmoil. When he misplaces $8000 he feels it's the end and contemplates ending his life. When his guardian angel, Clarence, shows George what his town and family would have been like without him George reconsiders. ...more about It's a Wonderful Life
DVD from $9.99
(17 sellers)
2
3.1998When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a living. ...more about David Copperfield
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
3
3.1183Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". ...more about Grand Hotel
DVD from $4.99
(15 sellers)
4
3.1077
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. ...more about Key Largo
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
5
3.0284
Alice Sycamore has to introduce the family of her fiance, Tony Kirby, to her own family. The Kirby's are wealthy, stuffy family of great self- importance, while the Sycamore's are a collection of good-hearted lunatics. ...more about You Can't Take It with You
DVD from $15.34
(14 sellers)
6
3.0077
Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. ...more about Camille
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
7
2.9816
Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns. Fortunately he's picked up by a fishing boat just heading out for the season. ...more about Captains Courageous
DVD from $10.99
(11 sellers)
8
2.9480
Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. ...more about Dinner at Eight
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
9
2.7836
Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent her death. ...more about Mark of the Vampire
DVD from $25.55
(10 sellers)
10
2.7792
Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil's Island. ...more about Devil-Doll
DVD from $25.55
(10 sellers)
11
2.7711
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chevez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. ...more about Duel in the Sun
DVD from $5.79
(11 sellers)
12
2.6422
Mata Hari is a German spy, working in Paris. She has already seduced the Russian general Shubin, and has now set her eyes on lieutenant Rosanov, a a young up-and-coming officer. ...more about Mata Hari
DVD from $8.51
(14 sellers)
15
2.5615
Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her. ...more about Saratoga
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.4900
A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. ...more about Guy Named Joe
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.4839
The countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and install a woven wire fence. ...more about Voice of Bugle Ann
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.4108
Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. ...more about Yank at Oxford
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.3515
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. ...more about Valley of Decision
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2997
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ...more about Test Pilot
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2373
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks Pud's custody. ...more about On Borrowed Time
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.1780
Young idealist Richard Miller is selected as valedictorian for his New England high school commencement class of 1906 and intends to inject modern anti-capitalistic ideas into his speech. ...more about Ah
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1095
Songwriters Dixie Donegan and Eddie Crane are still in love after their divorce. Dixie's friend Marilyn Marsh tries to convince them to marry again, but this isn't that easy. ...more about Lady Be Good
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.0943
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. ...more about Little Colonel
DVD from $9.59
(10 sellers)
26
2.0882
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. ...more about Mysterious Island
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.0547
Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. ...more about Secret of Dr. Kildare
DVD from $6.06
(7 sellers)
28
2.0547
Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Later Anna returns and he finds her dead, leaving behind a daughter. ...more about West of Zanzibar
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.9497
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. ...more about Bells
DVD from $15.99
(6 sellers)
30
1.9177
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O'Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. All three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in a single house as bachelors. ...more about Three Wise Fools
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.8995
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. ...more about Treasure Island
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
32
1.8264
Richard Grant is a lawyer who believes that murder under certain circumstances is justifiable. Richard's daughter, Barbara, takes her dad to a dinner party hosted by Richard's old friend, wealthy playboy, Gordon Rich. ...more about Guilty Hands
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.8173
Brillant pianist Larry Addams (Richard Derr) allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee (Claudette Colbert), and two small children, Penny (Ann Lace) and Chase (Dwayne Hickman), under the stigma of ...more about Secret Heart
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.7533
Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. ...more about Free Soul
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.5981
In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused causing the misfortune and loss of wealth of Fontenoy, a man who fell for her charms. ...more about Temptress
DVD from $22.49
(14 sellers)
37
1.3744
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. ...more about Since You Went Away
DVD from $8.97
(10 sellers)
40
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. ...more about Arsène Lupin
- Not Available on DVD
41
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. ...more about Bad Man
- Not Available on DVD
43
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge. ...more about Barrier
- Not Available on DVD
44
Red's still being chased by his rich society girlfriend, and while he's dodging her proposals of marriage, he takes the time to cure a nightclub singer of her inability to eat ("neuro-psychological self-starvation"), and to operate on the emergency ...more about Between Two Women
- Not Available on DVD
47
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt whenever he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. ...more about Broken Lullaby
- Not Available on DVD
50
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. ...more about Calling Dr. Kildare
- Not Available on DVD
53
Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one. ...more about Copperhead
- Not Available on DVD
58
When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to Gillespie for advice about Roy. ...more about Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
- Not Available on DVD
59
Dr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. ...more about Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
- Not Available on DVD
60
Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. ...more about Dr. Kildare Goes Home
- Not Available on DVD
61
Nurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a serious illness. ...more about Dr. Kildare's Crisis
- Not Available on DVD
62
Young Dr. Kildare is still being trained at General Hospital by old, crusty Dr. Gillespie. ...more about Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
DVD from $5.00
(5 sellers)
64
It is a week before Dr. Kildare's wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. The hospital is a-buzz with preparation for the big day. And good old Dr. Gillespie, despite fatigue, has agreed to help a prominent orchestra conductor regain his hearing. ...more about Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
- Not Available on DVD
65
Princess Emmanuella agrees to marry the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep the peace between their two countries. ...more about Drums of Love
- Not Available on DVD
69
In this is the entry into the Andy Hardy series about a small town depression era family, Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. ...more about Family Affair
- Not Available on DVD
71
A short made by MGM to promote its release of _Christmas Carol, A (1938)_ (qv) . ...more about Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore
- Not Available on DVD
73
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. ...more about Free and Easy
DVD from $25.55
(10 sellers)
74
With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. ...more about Girl from Missouri
- Not Available on DVD
76
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both. ...more about Gorgeous Hussy
- Not Available on DVD
81
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA. ...more about Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
- Not Available on DVD
82
Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, that he's actually a government agent. ...more about Let Freedom Ring
- Not Available on DVD
83
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating appearance of a conflict of interests. ...more about Lion and the Mouse
- Not Available on DVD
84
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story by Borden Chase about cattle baron Devereaux Burke (Gable), who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson (scene-stealing Barrymore) to dissuade Sam Houston (Moroni Olsen) from establishing Texas as a ...more about Lone Star
- Not Available on DVD
85
Depression Era story set in London has department store owner (Lewis Stone) facing bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets fired but finds new life in a home-based bakery. ...more about Looking Forward
- Not Available on DVD
88
Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help. While taking out the last load Royer is killed and Carnahan, wounded, must finish the job. ...more about Malaya
- Not Available on DVD
90
The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor. ...more about Master Mind
- Not Available on DVD
92
After some preliminary remarks, 'Lionel Barrymore' (qv) introduces 'Dore Schary' (qv), MGM's vice president in charge of production. Mr. Schary serves as commentator as scenes for several films scheduled to be released in 1951 are presented. ...more about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
- Not Available on DVD
97
Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. ...more about People vs. Dr. Kildare
- Not Available on DVD
100
Prizefighter Johnny is in love with his promoter O'Malley's daughter Pat. His best friend, sports reporter Rick, is also in love with her but knows that she loves Johnny. ...more about Right Cross
- Not Available on DVD
103
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche. ...more about Road to Glory
- Not Available on DVD
104
Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson lashes out against her lifestyle and tries to force her back to San Francisco, she may lose her second chance. ...more about Sadie Thompson
DVD from $19.17
(9 sellers)
105
An unhappy couple (Alice Brady, Lionel Barrymore) watch as their daughter (Mary Carlisle) throws herself at an older man (Conway Tearle) because he is a sophisticated artist. ...more about Should Ladies Behave
- Not Available on DVD
110
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude. ...more about Sweepings
- Not Available on DVD
114
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. ...more about Three Men in White
- Not Available on DVD