- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 12, 1879
- Place of Birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- June 18, 1959
Ethel Barrymore
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 early with his mother's relatives in the Drew theater company, Ethel, after a traditional girl's schooling, planned on becoming a concert pianist. The lure of the stage was perhaps congenital, however. She made her debut as a stage actress during …
Filmography
tvLegends
2006 · Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieVaudeville
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment!
1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieJohnny Trouble
1957 · Katherine Chandler
movieEloise
1956 · Herself
tvPlayhouse 90
1956 · Herself
movieYoung at Heart
1954 · Aunt Jessie Tuttle
tvClimax!
1954 · Mme. Rosalie La Grange
movieMain Street to Broadway
1953 · Self
movieThe Story of Three Loves
1953 · Mrs. Hazel Pennicott
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Mother
tvOmnibus
1952
movieJust for You
1952 · Alida De Bronkhart
movieDeadline - U.S.A.
1952 · Margaret Garrison
movieIt's a Big Country
1951 · Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
movieThe Secret of Convict Lake
1951 · Granny
movieKind Lady
1951 · Mary Herries
movieDaphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels
1951
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
movieThe Red Danube
1949 · Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')
moviePinky
1949 · Miss Em
movieThat Midnight Kiss
1949 · Abigail Trent Budell
movieThe Great Sinner
1949 · Grandmother Ostrovsky
moviePortrait of Jennie
1948 · Miss Spinney
movieMoonrise
1948 · Grandma
movieNight Song
1948 · Miss Willey
movieThe Paradine Case
1947 · Lady Sophie Horfield
movieMoss Rose
1947 · Lady Margaret Drego
movieThe Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Agatha Morley
movieThe Spiral Staircase
1946 · Mrs. Warren
movieNone But the Lonely Heart
1944 · Ma Mott
movieShow-Business at War
1943 · Self
movieRasputin and the Empress
1932 · Czarina Alexandra
movieCamille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926 · Olympe
movieThe Divorcee
1919 · Lady Frederick Berolles
movieOur Mrs. McChesney
1918 · Emma McChesney
movieAn American Widow
1917 · Elizabeth Carter
movieNational Red Cross Pageant
1917 · Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes
movieThe Eternal Mother
1917 · Maris
movieLife's Whirlpool
1917 · Esther Carey
movieThe Lifted Veil
1917 · Clorinda Gildersleeve
movieThe Greatest Power
1917 · Miriam Monroe
movieThe Call of Her People
1917 · Egypt
movieThe White Raven
1917 · Nan Baldwin
movieThe Awakening of Helena Ritchie
1916 · Helena Richie
movieThe Kiss of Hate
1916 · Nadia Turgeneff
movieThe Final Judgment
1915 · Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell
movieThe Nightingale
1914 · Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'