" Close-up Of Lionel Barrymore Looking Serious "

This studio portrait features a close-up of Lionel Barrymore looking serious. Lionel Barrymore was an American actor on 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 titled The Storey of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.