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Lionel Barrymore

1878 - 1954

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Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lionel Barrymore is the 1,488th most popular actor (down from 1,330th in 2019), the 2,767th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,304th in 2019) and the 732nd most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Lionel Barrymore ranks 1,488 out of 13,578. Before him are Philippe Leroy, Gunnel Lindblom, Elizabeth Peña, Claude Akins, Paul Sorvino, and Walter Huston. After him are Elisha Cook Jr., Priscilla Pointer, Chris Noth, Billy Drago, Bruce Spence, and Emilia Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lionel Barrymore ranks 71. Before him are Yosano Akiko, Paul Pelliot, Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, Hans Ledwinka, and Franz Schreker. After him are Felix Bernstein, Stephen Timoshenko, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Charles Joughin, Mikhail Artsybashev, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1954, Lionel Barrymore ranks 51. Before him are Wilhelm Schmidt, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Franz Josef Popp, Oscar Straus, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, and Edwin Howard Armstrong. After him are Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Jess McMahon, Franz Neumann, Marius Jacob, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, and Friedrich Meinecke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lionel Barrymore ranks 2,767 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Sorvino (1939), Robert Plutchik (1927), Albert R. Broccoli (1909), Merian C. Cooper (1893), Paul Wolfowitz (1943), and Doc Holliday (1851). After him are Bobby McFerrin (1950), Jerry Butler (1939), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Cochise (1805), Loretta Lynch (1959), and Elisha Cook Jr. (1903).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lionel Barrymore ranks 732. Before him are Donald Glover (1983), Tanya Roberts (1955), Virginia Cherrill (1908), Elizabeth Peña (1959), Claude Akins (1926), and Paul Sorvino (1939). After him are Elisha Cook Jr. (1903), Priscilla Pointer (1924), Chris Noth (1954), Billy Drago (1945), Brittany Murphy (1977), and David Soul (1943).

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