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  John Drew Barrymore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
In 2003, his successful actress and producer daughter Drew Barrymore moved him near her home despite their estrangement, paying his medical bills until his death from cancer at the age of 75, in 2004, in Los Angeles, California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Drew_Barrymore   (462 words)

  
 Drew Barrymore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is the granddaughter of stage and movie actor John Barrymore, widely regarded as his generation's greatest actor, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
Barrymore was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner, Jeremy Thomas, from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001).
Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many women as a teenager and is still interested in women sexually.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drew_Barrymore   (815 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Drew Barrymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Sidney Blythe (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942), better known as John Barrymore, became famous as a Shakespearean actor, lauded for his Hamlet, and was frequently regarded as the greatest actor of his generation, playing a wide variety of roles on stage and in films.
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 - June 18, 1959) was a major American actress of the famous Barrymore family; she was the aunt of troubled actor John Drew Barrymore and great-aunt of actress/producer Drew Barrymore.
She is the granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Drew-Barrymore   (1119 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: John Drew Barrymore; Acting Legend's Son
John Drew Barrymore, 72, the reclusive and eccentric son of acting legend John Barrymore and father of actress Drew Barrymore, died Nov. 29 in Los Angeles.
John Barrymore died at age 60 in 1942 of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver.
Drew Barrymore said he was the sort of man who had not owned a pair of shoes in 40 years, did not believe in material possessions and often muttered Scripture to passersby.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A23821-2004Nov30?language=printer   (455 words)

  
 John Drew Barrymore dies - Film - www.smh.com.au
John Drew Barrymore, the reclusive and eccentric son of acting legend John Barrymore and father of Hollywood star Drew Barrymore, died today, her spokesman said.
John Barrymore died at 60 in 1942 of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver.
Drew Barrymore once said in an interview that there were times when she did not know where her father was.
www.smh.com.au /news/Film/John-Drew-Barrymore-dies/2004/11/30/1101577457597.html   (544 words)

  
 John Barrymore - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Sidney Blythe (February 15, 1882 - May 29, 1942), better known as John Barrymore, became famous as a Shakespearean actor, lauded for his Hamlet.
He was the younger brother of actors Lionel and Ethel Barrymore and the grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
Barrymore married Katherine Corri Harris (1891-1927), an actress who starred in the 1918 film The House of Mirth, on September 1, 1910 and divorced in 1916.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /j/jo/john_barrymore.html   (303 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / John Drew Barrymore, actor, father of famous actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
LOS ANGELES -- John Drew Barrymore, the reclusive and eccentric son of acting legend John Barrymore and father of Hollywood star Drew Barrymore, died yesterday, her spokesman said.
Barrymore by the time she was born in early 1975.
Drew Barrymore had said there were times when she did not know where her father was.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/11/30/john_drew_barrymore_actor_father_of_famous_actress   (426 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | John D Barrymore
John Blythe Barrymore Jnr was born on June 4 1932 at Beverly Hills, California.
John Drew's daughter, Georgiana Drew, a well-known comic actress on the 19th-century New York stage, married the actor Maurice Barrymore and produced three children, Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore, all of whom took to the stage.
In 1958 he changed his name to John Drew Barrymore and his career was briefly revived; but in the early 1960s he left Hollywood for Italy, where he was to appear in several films, none of which, he freely admitted, was any good.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/01/db0102.xml   (571 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | John Drew Barrymore, troubled heir of film dynasty and father of actress Drew Barrymore, dies at 72 | ...
As a teenage star battling alcoholism herself, Drew Barrymore wrote about her father in the memoir "Little Girl Lost." He was depicted as menacing, showing up only to abuse his daughter and former wife and ask for money.
John Drew Barrymore was born in Beverly Hills on June 4, 1932.
Barrymore is also survived by a son, John Barrymore III, by his first wife.
deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,595109014,00.html   (512 words)

  
 KBTX | Actor John D. Barrymore Dies at 72
John Drew Barrymore, the sometimes troubled heir to an acting dynasty and absent father of movie star Drew Barrymore, died Monday.
John D. Barrymore was part of an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
Drew Barrymore was his daughter by his third wife, Ildiko Jaid Barrymore.
www.kbtx.com /home/headlines/1112112.html   (414 words)

  
 THE WILD WILD WEST @ wildwildwest.org - John Drew Barrymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Drew Barrymore, the troubled heir to an acting dynasty and the father of movie star Drew Barrymore has died aged 72.
John D Barrymore was part of an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, and his father’s siblings, Lionel and Ethel.
John D Barrymore is also survived by a son, John Barrymore III, by his first wife.
www.wildwildwest.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=903   (475 words)

  
 John Drew BARRYMORE - Vikipedio
John Drew BARRYMORE, origine: John Blythe BARRYMORE (naskiĝis la 4-an de junio 1932, mortis la 29-an de novembro 2004) estis usona aktoro.
Kiel filo de la geaktoroj John BARRYMORE kaj Dolores COSTELLO li naskiĝis en Beverly Hills, Kalifornio.
Liaj gefiloj Drew BARRYMORE kaj John Blyth BARRYMORE mem fariĝis famaj aktoroj.
eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Drew_BARRYMORE   (203 words)

  
 RTE.ie Entertainment - Actor John Drew Barrymore dies, aged 72
Drew Barrymore issued a statement yesterday confirming that her father had died, but no details about the time or place of his death have yet emerged.
Barrymore, who was the son of acting legend John Barrymore, was renowned for his rebellious streak, which led to many colourful encounters with family, friends and the law.
Barrymore starred in a number of Hollywood films during his sporadic acting career, including 'The Big Night' and 'While the City Sleeps'.
www.rte.ie /arts/2004/1130/barrymorejd.html   (128 words)

  
 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for John Barrymore
Born John Sidney Blythe, he was the youngest child of acclaimed stage performer Maurice Blythe who had gained fame as Maurice Barrymore, and his actress wife Georgina "Georgie" Drew, the daughter of celebrated actor John Drew.
John Barrymore's youthful passion was not theater but art, and after an education in American private schools he pursued study of drawing and painting while enrolled at King's College of Wimbledon, England, as a private student in Paris, and at last as at the Art Students League of New York.
Barrymore's earliest stage tour placed him in San Francisco during the cataclysmic earthquake of 1906, and he quickly returned to the East to be embraced by both audiences and theater critics in "The Fortune Hunter".
obits.com /barrymorejohn.html   (1050 words)

  
 SimplyDrew - Drew Barrymore Fan Site
John Drew was an actor and the son of the legend John Barrymore.
John Blythe married Rebecca Pogrow on the 1st January 1993 and was divorced on the 1st September 2002.
John Senior was a legendary screen and stage actor and was a member of most acclaimed and famous theatrical family in America.
www.simplydrew.com /biography.htm   (661 words)

  
 entwww.com: Drew Barrymore Profile and Gossips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barrymore is refusing to see her desperately ill father, John Drew Barrymore, because she can't forgive the way he treated her -- Despite cutting emotional ties, the actress still shells out financially, paying around $48,000 a year for her father's care.
Barrymore has laid to rest years of speculation by confirming she is bisexual and claims to have bedded lots of women -- Barrymore has confessed to sleeping with a long line of women during her troubled teenage years, which saw her battling a drug addiction from the age of 11.
Drew Barrymore and Strokes Drummer Moretti marriage rumors are false as a spokesperson for the Strokes has denied the reports that drummer Fab Moretti is set to marry his girlfriend of less than a year--Drew Barrymore.
www.entwww.com /html/drewbarrymore.html   (2185 words)

  
 Biography for John Drew Barrymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was long estranged from his family, including his son John Blyth Barrymore (who has repeated many of his father's career and personal patterns) and daughter, actress Drew Barrymore.
His father, the legendary actor John Barrymore, had left specific instructions in his will that his body be cremated and his ashes be laid to rest next to his father and mother in the family cemetery in Philadelphia.
They were convinced it was John Barrymore by the very high quality dental work, and because although most of the flesh on the nose had decomposed, an incredibly long nose cartilage remained.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000857/bio   (1017 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - John Drew Barrymore, Actor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
JOHN Drew Barrymore, whose name and ancestry were far better known than his own credits in the acting profession that made his family famous, has died.
In her memoir, Little Girl Lost, however, his actress daughter Drew Barrymore, who herself battled alcoholism as a teenager, offered a blunter appraisal of her absent father, who had a long list of brushes with the law prompted by alcohol, drug abuse and violence.
Born in Los Angeles on 4 June, 1932, he was the son of legendary actor John Barrymore, nicknamed "the Profile", and his third wife, the actress Dolores Costello, and the nephew of Lionel and Ethel Barrymore.
news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=1381492004   (617 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | John Drew Barrymore dies
John Drew Barrymore, the troubled heir to an acting dynasty and the father of Drew Barrymore, died yesterday aged 72.
Barrymore was born in Beverly Hills on June 4, 1932 into an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore.
John Drew Barrymore is also survived by a son, John Barrymore III, by his first wife.
film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1362763,00.html   (270 words)

  
 Articles - John Barrymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barrymore was the grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore and brother of acting legends Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
Barrymore was born in Philadelphia into an extremely illustrious theatrical family and graduated from Georgetown University in 1898.
Barrymore was the younger brother of actor Lionel ("Mr.
www.1-ace.com /articles/John_Barrymore   (625 words)

  
 Vyper's Page About Drew Barrymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Drew's famous relatives were: her great-great grandfather John Drew, who died from heavy drinking; her great-great grandmother, Louisa Lane Drew; her grandfather John Barrymore, Sr., who drank himself to death; her great-aunt Ethel; her great-uncle Lionel Barrymore; and her aunt Diana, who died from alcoholism.
Drew started acting when she was 11 months old for a Gainesburgers dog food commercial and at 4 she had her first movie, Altered States.
Drew is the fifth Barrymore to be immortalised with a star on the sidewalk; Drew's father John Drew Barrymore was an actor and grandfather John Barrymore a 1930s movie star.
www.geocities.com /vyper_666/bio_2.html   (1715 words)

  
 Drew Barrymore pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is a granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
Barrymore maintained her "bad girl" image, and found new role as a sex symbol.
Barrymore was married to bartender Jeremy Thomas from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002.
www.entertainzones.com /actresses/b/drew-barrymore   (335 words)

  
 Drew Barrymore Timeline and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Drew Barrymore is born into the infamous Barrymore family in Culver City, California to John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore (born Ildiko Jaid Mako).
Her grandfather is John Barrymore and her grandmother is Dolores Costello.
Drew had been quietly paying for her dad's bone marrow cancer treatment for the last two years.
www.twoop.com /people/archives/2005/10/drew_barrymore.html   (524 words)

  
 James Rainville's ESL Page, Drew Barrymore mini Biography, Hot Potatoes Quiz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barrymore utterly charmed audiences everywhere, and she was a huge celebrity at the tender age of seven.
Drew was partying and abusing drugs and alcohol at an age when most girls were still playing with Barbies.
It is often hard to see the old Drew in the new, but without all the trials and hardships, she would not be the delightful and fascinating person she is today.
www.james.rtsq.qc.ca /rrdrewmatch.htm   (1426 words)

  
 Re: Connection to John Drew Barrymore family
The Drews of Limerick were from a noble English family originally from Devon who settled in Ireland during the turmoil of the Civil War in 1598.
I have recently discovered lots of info on the Irish Drews as well as their noble Devon forbears and have traced my Drew lineage back to William Drewe (17G grandfather) supposedly descended from Drogo or Dru a Norman noble whose Grandfather Richard Duke of Normandy was also William the Conqueror's grandfather.
All the Drews of Plymouth Mass., for example, are descended from a son of Sir Edward Drewe, Queen Elizabeth I's barrister of the inner court, an influential man of his time, and my 12G uncle.
genforum.genealogy.com /drew/messages/363.html   (346 words)

  
 The Drew Barrymore Picture Pages
Drew Blythe Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California to a family fully loaded with acting skill.
John Drew; born on June 4, 1932; died on November 29, 2004) and her mother is actress Ildiko Jad Barrymore (a.k.a.
Drew Barrymore is also the great niece of famed actors, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, as well as the goddaughter of Steven Spielberg and Anna Strasberg.
www.superiorpics.com /drew_barrymore   (1297 words)

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