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Most Recent Role: Royal Bodie on Dundee and the Culhane
Alias Name(s): John Barrymore, Jr.
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: 6-4-1932
Birth Name: John Sidney Blythe Barrymore, Jr.
Date of Death: 11-29-2004
Cause of Death: Cancer (Los Angeles, California, USA)
The birth of John Drew Barrymore (John Sidney Blyth Barrymore,Jr.) in June, 1932, was hailed among admirers of the Barrymore acting clan as that of a royal prince. The only son of the greatest Barrymore, John, the younger John was the only child born from the famous trio of John, Ethel, and Lionel to carry on the the family surname (Ethel's three children had the name of their father, Colt,...

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Dundee and the Culhane
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Wednesday 6 September 1967 on CBS

The premiere episode for Dundee and the Culhane! We are introduced to the main characters Dundee, and The Culhane, and learn a little about their lives!

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John Drew Barrymore-A tale of disenchantment

John Drew Barrymore brought shame upon the family film legacy of one of the greatest, if notthe greatest theatrical family in Hollywood. Read more »
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At the time of his death from cancer in 2004, John Drew Barrymore was being supported to the tune of $48,000 a year by his daughter, actress Drew Barrymore. (edit)
All four of John Drew Barrymore's children (one son and three daughters), have the name "Blyth" some where in their name. One daughter has Blyth as a first name and the other three children have Blyth as a middle name. (edit)
John Drew Barrymore got caught up in the martial arts craze of the 1970's. He guest starred on David Carradine's hit series, Kung Fu , in 1974. However, this enthusiasm for martial arts had a dark side with Barrymore as daughter Drew has commented that her father, at times, used her as his personal punching bag, to practice his martial arts moves on. The last time this happend, Drew was seven. She threw a chair back at her father and did not speak to him again for seven years. (edit)
John Drew Barrymore's daughter, actress Drew Barrymore, has commented that her father was very unmaterialstic. She has been quoted as saying that she didn't think he had owned a pair of shoes in the forty years prior to his death in 2004. (edit)
John Drew Barrymore spent the last three decades of his life as a recluse, at times, and an alcohol swilling, drug addicted, derelict, spouting religious dogma on street corners at other times. Sadly, this man with such roots in the Hollywood film community, was left bereft of income and family for a long period of times due to his addictions and violent tendencies. Daughter Drew has publicly stated that there were long periods that she didn't know his whereabouts. In 2003, John Drew Barrymore appeared before a judge, in a Los Angeles courtroom, wheelchair bound, to determine his guardianship, as all the years of substance abuse had finally rendered him totally incompetent. (edit)

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John Drew Barrymore: I don't mind if my acting is compared to him ( his father, John Barrymore). The trouble is that people expect me to live like him. (edit)
John Drew Barrymore: I am not a nice, clean-cut American kid at all. I'm just a human being. Those things just happen. (edit)
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