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John Barrymore
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.7572
13
1930s
3.4301
30
1940s
1.0769
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7597
2.7597
John Barrymore Movie Rankings
1
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)
2
3.0592Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. ...more about Twentieth Century
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
3
2.9679In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent patriot, and a notorious carouser who is not above criminal acts. ...more about Beloved Rogue
DVD from $15.99
(5 sellers)
4
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)
5
2.7510
An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young and beautiful opera singer Marcia Morney-then the toast of Napoleon III's Paris. One evening, she encounters an American voice student, Paul Allison, and the two unexpectedly fall in love. ...more about Maytime
DVD from $26.50
(2 sellers)
6
2.7437
Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story: Doctor Henry Jekyll's enthusiasm for science and his selfless acts of service have made him a much-admired man. ...more about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
DVD from $3.00
(9 sellers)
7
2.7378
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who's attracted to Eve. ...more about Midnight
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.6939
After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. ...more about Bill of Divorcement
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.6026
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. ...more about Don Juan
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.4565
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the "Who Cares") and Jim Kimmerlee of the "Old Reliable," are lifelong pals. Their romantic rivalry over young Dian ends amicably. ...more about Spawn of the North
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.3077
The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall passionately in love. ...more about Romeo and Juliet
DVD from $11.98
(9 sellers)
14
2.2702
Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. ...more about Svengali
DVD from $6.06
(4 sellers)
15
2.2465
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with. ...more about Mad Genius
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.2099
The girlfriend of Captain Drummond is being kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond who seeks revenge. But Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen at once follow his trail... ...more about Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
DVD from $5.00
(4 sellers)
18
2.0608
Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. ...more about Invisible Woman
DVD from $19.19
(13 sellers)
19
2.0547
Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. ...more about State's Attorney
- Not Available on DVD
20
1.8173
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. ...more about Tempest
DVD from $15.99
(6 sellers)
21
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
23
In this episode captain Drummond tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value, but Drummond will face the danger. ...more about Bulldog Drummond's Peril
DVD from $3.48
(4 sellers)
24
Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans. ...more about Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
DVD from $3.48
(3 sellers)
26
Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady (Hughes) returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl (Baxter) tries to reform him. ...more about Great Profile
- Not Available on DVD
28
While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine. ...more about Hold That Co-ed
- Not Available on DVD
30
Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. They don't much like each other, but wind up working in the same nightclub. ...more about Long Lost Father
- Not Available on DVD
31
Disillusioned in marriage, Jacques Leroi attempts an airship flight across the Pacific Ocean, but crashes and washes ashore on an island populated by a peaceful tribe of completely happy people. ...more about Lotus Eater
- Not Available on DVD
33
In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. ...more about Moby Dick
- Not Available on DVD
34
Dr. Ernest Tindal kills his wife and plants clues pointing to her lover, Frank Marsh. Vera, Frank's sister, enlists the aid or reporter Russell Kirk in proving the innocence of her brother. ...more about Night Club Scandal
- Not Available on DVD
36
Lulu Monahan (Patsy Kelly), the press agent for John Barrymore (Himself),is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. ...more about Playmates
- Not Available on DVD
43
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme. ...more about Topaze
- Not Available on DVD
44
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence points at her. ...more about True Confession
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
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