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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.
Diana Barrymore in 1941. Her father John died in 1942 from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcoholism. Diana Barrymore's life became a series of alcohol- and drug-related disasters marked by bouts of severe depression that resulted in several suicide attempts and extended sanitarium stays.
John Barrymore and Dolores Costello welcomed Drew's father, John Drew Barrymore, on June 4, 1932. ... John Drew died on Nov. 29, 2004, at the age of 72. "He was a cool cat.
Barrymore drew a caricature of himself and Ethel in A Slice of Life, 1912 Mary Young, John Barrymore and Frank Campeau in Believe Me, Xantippe, 1913 Barrymore (right) with his brother Lionel in The Jest, 1919 Barrymore as Richard III, 1920 Violet Kemble-Cooper and Barrymore in Clair de Lune, 1921 Barrymore as Hamlet, 1922
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.
Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore and the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, among other members of the Barrymore family.
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.