John Drew Barrymore, also known as John Barrymore, Jr., (June 4, 1929 – November 29, 2004) was an actor, one of The Barrymores, a family of actors that included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, his uncle Lionel and his aunt Ethel.
John and his cousin, Dirk Drew Davenport, enlisted in the US Navy during World War II.
John ran away at age 17 and signed a film contract, but he repeatedly abandoned leading roles and had no major film career.
JAMES, JOHN and JOSIAH BLYTHE are sons of William and Mary S. (Marshall) Blythe, the former of whom, a farmer by occupation, was born on the old family farm in Fallowfield township, Washington Co., Penn., in 1800.
William Blythe was a son of James Blythe, a native of the North of Ireland, whence, in company with his brothers, John and Harry, he emigrated to America.
JOHNBLYTHE, third son of William and Mary S. Blythe, was born on the old farm in Fallowfield township.
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John Sidney Blythe (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942), better known as John Barrymore, became famous as a (additional info and facts about Shakespearean) Shakespearean (A theatrical performer) actor, lauded for his (A community of people smaller than a village) Hamlet.
His third wife was (additional info and facts about Dolores Costello) Dolores Costello (1903-1979), an actress and model best known for her role as Dearest in the movie (An excessively polite and well-dressed boy) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935.
They had two children, Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore and (additional info and facts about John Drew Barrymore) John Drew Barrymore (father of (additional info and facts about Drew Barrymore) Drew Barrymore).
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Reared in a college town, Blythe is no stranger to the energy of an academic environment...or to campus radio.
Later, Blythe attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an undergraduate before going on to study at Cambridge University and New York University.
JohnBlythe can be heard on City Folk Morning weekdays and on Fordham Conversations Saturdays from 7-7:30am.
She was no longer living with her parents in 1891, and was perhaps in domestic service somewhere, as she is said to have worked as a scullerymaid in her youth.
John Keegan is called a boot closer, of 34 Great N. Andrew Street, in his daughter Rebeccas birth certificate.
Much of our information on her his from her son-in-law (and my grandfather) Alan Blythe, in whose home she lived most of the last years of her life.
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Although he worked steadily from the mid-'70s into the late '90s, the acting career of JohnBlythe Barrymore never reached the heights of those of his grandfather John Barrymore or of his half sister Drew Barrymore.
JohnBlythe Barrymore's great-grandfather, Maurice Costello, was a silent movie actor, as was his grandmother Dolores Costello and her sister Helene Costello.
His father, John Drew Barrymore, and mother, Cara Williams, were also actors.
Father of John Barrymore, immigrated to the United States in 1875 and appeared in Augustin Daly's play
Obituary: John Drew Barrymore; Actor son of John Barrymore who exceeded even his father's off- screen excesses.(Obituaries) (The Independent (London, England))
John D. Barrymore, father of actress Drew Barrymore, dies at 72 (AP Worldstream)
"[A] delicious 1933 comedy-drama..." This wonderful 1930s comedy from George Cukor features brilliant acting from a formidable cast including John and Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, and Billie Burke.
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