Ethel Barrymore

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1879-08-12 (80 years old)

Deathday

1959-06-18

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Ethel Barrymore

Biography

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 were born and grew up in Philadelphia. Though older brother Lionel Barrymore began acting e...

Acting

1947

The Paradine Case

as Lady Sophie Horfield

1948

Portrait of Jennie

as Miss Spinney

1946

The Spiral Staircase

as Mrs. Warren

1914

The Nightingale

as Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'

1916

The Kiss of Hate

as Nadia Turgeneff

1915

The Final Judgment

as Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell

1917

The White Raven

as Nan Baldwin

1917

The Greatest Power

as Miriam Monroe

1917

The Lifted Veil

as Clorinda Gildersleeve

1917

1917

National Red Cross Pageant

as Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes

1917

An American Widow

as Elizabeth Carter

1918

Our Mrs. McChesney

as Emma McChesney

1919

The Divorcee

as Lady Frederick Berolles

1948

Moonrise

as Grandma

1949

The Red Danube

as Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')

1952

Deadline - U.S.A.

as Margaret Garrison

1954

Young at Heart

as Aunt Jessie Tuttle

1932

Rasputin and the Empress

as Czarina Alexandra

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

as Agatha Morley

1949

Pinky

as Miss Em

1947

Moss Rose

as Lady Margaret Drego

1952

Just for You

as Alida De Bronkhart

1951

It's a Big Country

as Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan

1949

That Midnight Kiss

as Abigail Trent Budell

1953

The Story of Three Loves

as Mrs. Hazel Pennicott

1949

The Great Sinner

as Grandmother Ostrovsky

1951

Kind Lady

as Mary Herries

1948

Night Song

as Miss Willey

1957

Johnny Trouble

as Katherine Chandler

1974

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1917

Life's Whirlpool

as Esther Carey

1956

Eloise

as Herself

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

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