Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Blythe) (1878-1954), b. Philadelphia The older brother of Ethel and John, Lionell was unlike John in all important ways: profes-l sional, hardworking, ambitious, humorless,! and dull. He began in the theatre hut in the! years before the First World War he jomedl D. W. Griffith’s company and acted in a great! many two-reelers, occasionally contributing! scripts. He became a leading player only in, the mid-3920s when he established himself at| MGM; The Face in the Fog (22, Crosland); The F-temal City (23, George) Fitzrnaurice); America (24. Griffith); Th Splendid Road (25, Frank Lloyd); The , (26, James Young); The Barrier (26, Geors Hill); The Lucky Lady (26, Baoul Walsh); Tk Temptress (26, Fred Niblo); The Show (27; Tod Browning); Women Love Diamonds (271 Edmund Goulding); Drums of Lone (2S( Griffith); as Atkinson in Sadie Thompson ( Walsh); West of Zanzibar (28, Browning Alias Jimmy Valentine (29, Jack Conway); i The Mysterious Island (29, Lucien Hubban Maurice Tourneur, and Benjamin Chri tensen). But it was in the years after the eon ing of sound that he was most active. As ws as acting—in A Free Soul (30, Clarenq Brown), f