Ethel Barrymore
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — Aug 12 1879• Died Jun 18 1959
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Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian theater of America and England. The Barrymore children wer…
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Climax!
Mme. Rosalie La Grange
What's My Line?
Self
Legends
Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Playhouse 90
Herself
The Secret of Convict Lake
Granny
General Electric Theater
Mother
Pinky
Miss Em
The Paradine Case
Lady Sophie Horfield
Deadline - U.S.A.
Margaret Garrison
Moonrise
Grandma
Rasputin and the Empress
Czarina Alexandra
The Story of Three Loves
Mrs. Hazel Pennicott
Portrait of Jennie
Miss Spinney
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Olympe
Young at Heart
Aunt Jessie Tuttle
Moss Rose
Lady Margaret Drego
Kind Lady
Mary Herries
It's a Big Country
Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
The Farmer's Daughter
Agatha Morley
Eloise
Herself
Main Street to Broadway
Self
The Great Sinner
Grandmother Ostrovsky
Show-Business at War
Self
The Red Danube
Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
That Midnight Kiss
Abigail Trent Budell
Johnny Trouble
Katherine Chandler
The Divorcee
Lady Frederick Berolles
Just for You
Alida De Bronkhart
The Greatest Power
Miriam Monroe
Life's Whirlpool
Esther Carey
An American Widow
Elizabeth Carter
National Red Cross Pageant
Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes
None But the Lonely Heart
Ma Mott
The Lifted Veil
Clorinda Gildersleeve
The Final Judgment
Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell
The White Raven
Nan Baldwin
Our Mrs. McChesney
Emma McChesney
The Eternal Mother
Maris
Night Song
Miss Willey
The Awakening of Helena Ritchie
Helena Richie
The Nightingale
Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'
The Kiss of Hate
Nadia Turgeneff
The Call of Her People
Egypt
Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels