Lionel Barrymore
Audiences rate Lionel Barrymore’s films higher than 98% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Lionel Barrymore (83.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Lionel's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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 focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Born 1878-04-28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 1954-11-15.
On ThumbScore, Lionel Barrymore appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 83.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
