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| | 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. |
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