Highest rated movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Lowest rated movie: Free and Easy (1930)
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Movies starring Lionel Barrymore have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
It's a Wonderful Life - released in 1946 - is Lionel Barrymore's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 740 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lionel Barrymore is Free and Easy - released in 1930 - with a score of 44% based on 5 reviews.
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 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 remains best 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. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focussing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Lionel Barrymore has acted in films with James Stewart, Bess Flowers, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford.
Lionel Barrymore has worked with these film directors: Jack Conway, Clarence Brown, Harold S. Bucquet and Tod Browning.
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