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John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) [a] was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist, but appeared on stage together with his father Maurice in 1900, and then his sister Ethel the following year.
John Drew Barrymore (born John Blyth Barrymore Jr.; June 4, 1932 – November 29, 2004) was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress Drew Barrymore.
John Barrymore: 29 May 1942 (aged 60) Los Angeles, California, United States Alcohol-related liver cirrhosis: Actor Helen Morgan: 9 October 1941 (aged 41) Chicago, Illinois, United States Alcohol-related liver cirrhosis: Singer, actress F. Scott Fitzgerald: 21 December 1940 (aged 44) Hollywood, California, United States
John Barrymore and his second wife, Blanche Oelrichs, welcomed their daughter Diana on March 3, 1921. ... Diana's autopsy failed to provide a cause of death. John Drew Barrymore. Bettman.
Born Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe in New York, New York, Diana Barrymore was the daughter of actor John Barrymore and his second wife, poet Blanche Oelrichs. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Educated in Paris and New York City, Barrymore had little contact with her father.
Drew Barrymore shared a candid post about her late dad, actor John Barrymore, and opened up about what it was like growing up with an unconventional and at times complicated father.
Drew’s father, the late John Drew Barrymore, was arrested several times for drug use, drunkenness and spousal abuse. Her grandfather John Barrymore struggled with alcohol abuse from the age of 14.
She was the sister of actors John and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore and great-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was a granddaughter of actress and theater manager Louisa Lane Drew and niece of Broadway matinée idol John Drew, Jr. and Vitagraph Studios stage and screen star Sidney Drew.