From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lionel Barrymore born Lionel Herbert Blythe April 28 1878 November 15 1954 was an American actor of stage screen and radio as well as a film director He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul 1931 and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr Potter in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades He is also known for playing Dr Leonard Gillespie in MGMs nine Dr Kildare films a role he reprised in a further six films focussing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr Kildare He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family
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