FrameThrower · Actors · Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
4 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1931–1948
Born 28 April 1878 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · died 15 November 1954
Lionel Barrymore 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 Capra's 1946 film It's 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 MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1931–1948
- Academy Award for Best Actor1931
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 222 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lionel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 74% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Lionel takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 222 frames from Lionel Barrymore's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.