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Ethel Barrymore

1879 - 1959

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Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ethel Barrymore is the 1,379th most popular actor (down from 914th in 2019), the 2,585th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,634th in 2019) and the 681st most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ethel Barrymore ranks 1,379 out of 13,578Before her are Lee Majors, Jennifer Grey, Victoria Abril, Nora Miao, Anne Archer, and Kim Soo-hyun. After her are Mark Bernes, J. Carrol Naish, Kate Capshaw, Megan Fox, Edward Mulhare, and Eric McCormack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Ethel Barrymore ranks 68Before her are Jane Darwell, Huda Sha'arawi, William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Agrippina Vaganova, and Samuel Goldwyn. After her are Frederick Schule, Alfred Korzybski, Dwight F. Davis, William Fox, René Pottier, and Bernhard Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1959, Ethel Barrymore ranks 52Before her are Barthélemy Boganda, Zhang Jinghui, Grock, Elias, Duke of Parma, Edvard Eriksen, and Hitoshi Ashida. After her are George Albert Smith, George Antheil, Irakli Tsereteli, Eugene Meyer, Imre Schlosser, and Una O'Connor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ethel Barrymore ranks 2,585 out of 20,380Before her are Anne Archer (1947), Jackie Jackson (1951), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Jim Lightbody (1882), and Edward T. Hall (1914). After her are Ub Iwerks (1901), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Maggie Hassan (1958), Michael Rosbash (1944), Stockton Rush (1962), and Samuel Adams (1722).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ethel Barrymore ranks 681Before her are Rosie Perez (1964), Candy Darling (1944), John Savage (1949), Lee Majors (1939), Jennifer Grey (1960), and Anne Archer (1947). After her are J. Carrol Naish (1896), Kate Capshaw (1953), Megan Fox (1986), Rita Wilson (1956), Beverly D'Angelo (1951), and Richard Schiff (1955).