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| death_place = Van Nuys, California, U.S. | birth_name = Lionel Herbert Blythe | spouse = (divorced) (her death) | notable_works = ''A Free Soul'' ''It's a Wonderful Life'' ''Young Dr. Kildare'' | years_active = 1893–1954 | occupation = Actor }} 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.〔Obituary ''Variety'', November 17, 1954.〕 He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931), and remains perhaps best known for the role of the villainous Mr. Potter character 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 was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family. ==Early life== Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore. He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore and the granduncle of Drew Barrymore, among other members of the Barrymore family. Barrymore was raised a Roman Catholic. He attended the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia. He attended private schools as a child, including the Art Students League of New York.〔Foster, Cherika and Lindley Homol. ("Barrymore, Lionel Herbert" ), Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Penn State University Libraries, 2009, accessed November 15, 2015〕 He was married twice, to actresses Doris Rankin and Irene Fenwick, a one-time lover of his brother John. Doris's sister Gladys was married to Lionel's uncle Sidney Drew, which made Gladys both his aunt and sister-in-law. Doris Rankin bore Lionel two daughters, Ethel Barrymore II (b. 1908–1910)〔("A New Ethel Barrymore" ), ''The New York Times'', August 30, 1908〕 and Mary Barrymore (b. 1916).〔''The Barrymores in Hollywood'' by James Kotsilibas Davis, c. 1981.〕 Neither child survived infancy.〔(The Greenbook Album, Magazine of the Passing Show ) ,Volume 8, p. 340, July 1912〕〔(Ethel Barrymore 2nd; findagrave.com ). Retrieved November 11, 2015〕 Barrymore never truly recovered from the deaths of his girls, and their loss undoubtedly strained his marriage to Doris Rankin, which ended in 1923. Years later, Barrymore developed a fatherly affection for Jean Harlow, who was born about the same time as his daughters. When Harlow died in 1937, Barrymore and Clark Gable mourned her as though she had been family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lionel Barrymore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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