Lionel Barrymore — Actor (22)
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
director: Fred Niblo actor: Ramon Novarro / Francis X. Bushman …
other title: Ben-Hur: Una storia di Cristo / Ben Hur …
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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Mata Hari (1931) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mata Hari
director: George Fitzmaurice actor: Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro …
other title: Mata-Hari
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938) [Movie] TMDB
You Can't Take It with You
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Arthur / James Stewart …
other title: L'eterna illusione / Não o Levarás Contigo …
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Grand Hotel (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Grand Hotel
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Greta Garbo / John Barrymore …
other title: Grande Hotel / Menschen im Hotel …
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Captains Courageous (1937) [Movie] TMDB
Captains Courageous
director: Victor Fleming actor: Freddie Bartholomew / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Capitani coraggiosi / Lobos do Mar …
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Free and Easy (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Free and Easy
director: Edward Sedgwick actor: Buster Keaton / Anita Page …
other title: Le Metteur en scène / Easy Go …
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
1930s busterkeaton comedon comedy usa
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The Stars Look Down (1940) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
The Stars Look Down
director: Carol Reed actor: Michael Redgrave / Margaret Lockwood …
other title: E le stelle stanno a guardare / Die Sterne blicken herab …
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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West of Zanzibar (1928) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
West of Zanzibar
director: Tod Browning actor: Lon Chaney / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: La serpe di Zanzibar / Le Talion …
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
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The Devil-Doll (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Devil-Doll
director: Tod Browning actor: Lionel Barrymore / Maureen O'Sullivan …
other title: La bambola del diavolo / Die Teufelspuppe …
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
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Mark of the Vampire (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mark of the Vampire
director: Tod Browning actor: Lionel Barrymore / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: I vampiri di Praga / A Marca do Vampiro …
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.
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The Show (1927) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Show
director: Tod Browning actor: John Gilbert / Renée Adorée …
other title: La Morsure / El palacio de las maravillas …
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Elmer Booth / Lillian Gish …
other title: I Moschettieri di Pig Alley / Cœur d'apache …
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
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The Temptress (1926) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Temptress
director: Fred Niblo actor: Greta Garbo / Antonio Moreno …
other title: La tentatrice / Dämon Weib …
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
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The Mysterious Island (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Mysterious Island
director: Lucien Hubbard / Benjamin Christensen … actor: Lionel Barrymore / Jacqueline Gadsden …
other title: L'isola misteriosa / Die mysteriöse Insel …
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
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Key Largo (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Key Largo
director: John Huston actor: Humphrey Bogart / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: L'isola di corallo / Uvejrsøen Key Largo …
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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Sadie Thompson (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sadie Thompson
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Gloria Swanson / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: …aber das Fleisch ist schwach / Faiblesse humaine …
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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A Free Soul (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Free Soul
director: Clarence Brown actor: Norma Shearer / Leslie Howard …
other title: Io amo / Der Mut zum Glück …
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Duel in the Sun (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Duel in the Sun
director: King Vidor actor: Jennifer Jones / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Duello al sole / Duelo ao Sol …
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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The Bells (1926) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Bells
director: James Young actor: Lionel Barrymore / Caroline Frances Cooke …
A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...