Highest rated movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Lowest rated movie: Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
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Looking for reviews of John Barrymore movies? Cinafilm has a total of 562 reviews across 23 movies.
Movies starring John Barrymore have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - released in 1925 - is John Barrymore's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 48 reviews.
The lowest rated film from John Barrymore is Bulldog Drummond Comes Back - released in 1937 - with a score of 46% based on 2 reviews.
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack.
A member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
John Barrymore has acted in films with Lionel Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Leo White and John Howard.
John Barrymore has worked with these film directors: George Cukor, Louis King, Alan Crosland and Gene Kelly.
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