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Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre".
Birth Name
Ethel Mae Blythe
Born
Friday, 15 August 1879
Died
Thursday, 18 June 1959
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Spotlight on Broadway | Self | 2013 |
| Inside the Marx Brothers | Self | 2003 |
| Classified X | Self | 1998 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| That's Entertainment! | Self - at Banquet | 1974 |
| Johnny Trouble | Katherine Chandler / Katherine Chandler AKA Nana | 1957 |
| Playhouse 90 | Ethel Barrymore | 1956 |
| Ethel Barrymore Theater | Self - Host | 1956 |
| Young at Heart | Aunt Jessie Tuttle | 1954 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Spotlight on Broadway | Self | 2013 |
| Inside the Marx Brothers | Self | 2003 |
| Classified X | Self | 1998 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| That's Entertainment! | Self - at Banquet | 1974 |
| Johnny Trouble | Katherine Chandler / Katherine Chandler AKA Nana | 1957 |
| Playhouse 90 | Ethel Barrymore | 1956 |
| Ethel Barrymore Theater | Self - Host | 1956 |
| Young at Heart | Aunt Jessie Tuttle | 1954 |
| Climax! | Mme. Rosalie La Grange | 1954 |
| Main Street to Broadway | Ethel Barrymore / Self | 1953 |
| Person to Person | Self | 1953 |
| The Story of Three Loves | Mrs. Hazel Pennicott / Hazel Pennicott (segment "Mademoiselle") | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Mother | 1953 |
| Omnibus | (segment "Lord Byron's Love Letter") | 1952 |
| Just for You | Alida De Bronkhart | 1952 |
| Deadline - U.S.A. | Margaret Garrison | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan | 1951 |
| The Secret of Convict Lake | Granny | 1951 |
| Hollywood Opening Night | Mother Superior | 1951 |
| Kind Lady | Mary Herries | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| All Star Revue | Self / Self - Guest Actress | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Herself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| The Red Danube | Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia') | 1949 |
| Pinky | Miss Em | 1949 |
| That Midnight Kiss | Abigail Trent Budell | 1949 |
| The Great Sinner | Grandmother Ostrovsky / Grandmother | 1949 |
| Portrait of Jennie | Miss Spinney | 1949 |
| NBC Television Opera Theatre | Narrator | 1949 |
| Moonrise | Grandma | 1948 |
| The Paradine Case | Lady Sophie Horfield | 1948 |
| Night Song | Miss Willey | 1947 |
| Moss Rose | Lady Margaret Drego / Margaret Drego | 1947 |
| The Farmer's Daughter | Mrs. Morley / Agath Morley | 1947 |
| The Spiral Staircase | Mrs. Warren | 1946 |
| None But the Lonely Heart | Ma Mott | 1944 |
| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943 |
| Rasputin and the Empress | The Czarina - Alexandra Feodorovna / Czarina Alexandra | 1932 |
| Camille | Olympe | 1926 |
| The Divorcee | Lady Frederick Berolles | 1919 |
| Our Mrs. McChesney | Emma McChesney | 1918 |
| An American Widow | Elizabeth Carter | 1917 |
| National Red Cross Pageant | Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes | 1917 |
| Life's Whirlpool | Esther Carey | 1917 |
| The Lifted Veil | Clorinda Gildersleeve | 1917 |
| The Greatest Power | Miriam Monroe | 1917 |
| The Call of Her People | Egypt | 1917 |
| The Awakening of Helena Ritchie | Helena Richie | 1916 |
| The Kiss of Hate | Nadia Turgeneff | 1916 |
| The Final Judgment | Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell | 1915 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1955 | Emmy | Best Actress in a Single Performance | Nominated |
| 1950 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 1948 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 1947 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 1945 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Won |
