John Barrymore

1882 - 1942  (60 years)    Has 6 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Barrymore
  Relationship	with Francis Fox
  Born	14 Feb 1882	Philadelphia, PA, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 May 1942	Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
  Person ID	I372793	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Father	Maurice Blyth,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Georgiana Emma Drew,   b. 11 Jul 1856,   d. 02 Jul 1893  (Age 36 years)
  Siblings	3 siblings
  + 1. Lionel Barrymore,   b. 28 Apr 1878, Philadelphia, PA, USA ,   d. 15 Nov 1954, Van Nuys, California, USA  (Age 76 years) + 2. Ethel Barrymore,   b. 15 Aug 1879, Philadelphia, PA, USA ,   d. 18 Jun 1959, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Age 79 years)   3. NN Blyth
  Family ID	F147751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Katherine Corri Harris,   b. Abt 1893,   d. 2 May 1927, New York, NY, USA  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Married	1916
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F147753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Blanche Oelrichs,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	5 Aug 1920
  Divorced	May 1925
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F147754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Mary Astor,   b. 3 May 1906, Quincy, Illinois, USA ,   d. 25 Sep 1987, Woodland Hills, California, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Married	1924
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F147747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Dolores Costello,   b. 17 Sep 1903, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1 Mar 1979, Fallbrook, California, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Married	1928
  Divorced	1935
  Children	1. Living + 2. Living
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F147755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 5	Elaine Barriere,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	1936
  Divorced	1941
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F147756	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - 14 Feb 1882 - Philadelphia, PA, USA Died - 29 May 1942 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California  = Link to Google Earth
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  American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. John was handsome and roguish. He made his stage debut at 18 in one of his father's productions, but was much more interested in becoming an artist. Briefly educated at King's College, Wimbledon, and at New York's Art Students League, Barrymore worked as a freelance artist and for a while sketched for the New York Evening Journal. Gradually, though, the draw of his family's profession ensnared him and by 1905 he had given up professional drawing and was touring the country in plays. He survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and in 1909 became a major Broadway star in "The Fortune Hunter." In 1922, Barrymore became his generation's most acclaimed Hamlet, in New York and London. But by this time he had become a frequent player in motion pictures. His screen debut supposedly came in American Citizen, An (1914), though records of several lost films indicate he may have made appearances as far back as 1912. He became every bit the star of films that he was on stage, eclipsing his siblings in both arenas. Though his striking matinee-idol looks had garnered him the nickname "The Great Profile, " he often buried them under makeup or distortion in order to create memorable characters of degradation or horror. He was a romantic leading man into the early days of sound films, but his heavy drinking (since boyhood) began to take a toll, and he degenerated quickly into a man old before his time. He made a number of memorable appearances in character roles, but these became over time more memorable for the humiliation of a once-great star than for his gifts. His last few films were broad and distasteful caricatures of himself, though in even the worst, such as Playmates (1941), he could rouse himself to a moving soliloquy from Hamlet. He died in 1942, mourned as much for the loss of his life as for the loss of grace, wit, and brilliance which had characterized his career at its height. Wikipedia