Ethel Barrymore
Birthday
1879/08/12
Day of death
1959/06/18 (79 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
Ethel Mae Blythe, Этель Барримор
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...Read more
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'
(1915) The Final Judgment
as Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell
(1916) The Kiss of Hate
as Nadia Turgeneff
(1916) The Awakening of Helena Ritchie
as Helena Richie
(1917) The White Raven
as Nan Baldwin
(1917) The Call of Her People
as Egypt
(1917) The Greatest Power
as Miriam Monroe
(1917) The Lifted Veil
as Clorinda Gildersleeve
(1917) The Eternal Mother
as Maris
(1917) An American Widow
as Elizabeth Carter
(1917) National Red Cross Pageant
as Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes
(1918) Our Mrs. McChesney
as Emma McChesney
(1919) The Divorcee
as Lady Frederick Berolles
(1948) Moonrise
as Grandma
(1951) The Secret of Convict Lake
as Granny
(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
(1944) None But the Lonely Heart
as Ma Mott
(1926) Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Olympe
(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
(1953) Main Street to Broadway
as Self
(1974) That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1917) Life's Whirlpool
as Esther Carey
(1956) Eloise
as Herself
(1951) Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels
as ---
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(1952) Omnibus
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Mother
(1954) Climax!
as Mme. Rosalie La Grange
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Herself
(2006) Legends
as Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self