Lionel Barrymore

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street. He is best known as Ritchie Cunningham's father, Howard in the long running sitcom Happy Days but he also portrayed the titular Father Frank Dowling on the TV mystery series, Father Dowling Mysteries. Lionel Barrymore is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. LaGuardia in the long-running Broadway musical Fiorello! (1959) for which he won a Tony Award. Potter, the miserly banker, in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. His breakthrough stage part was as New York's Mayor Fiorello H. He is perhaps currently best known as Mr. While attending DePaul University in Chicago in 1947, he made his stage debut in Our Town with the Canterbury Players at the Fine Arts Theatre.

Years later, after breaking his hip twice, he was confined to a wheelchair, but still acted. Bosley was born in Chicago, Illinois and during World War II he served in the U.S. Navy. He played the irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare and Doctor Gillespie movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Thomas Edward Bosley (born October 1, 1927) is an American actor. He won an Oscar in 1931 for best actor in Free Soul, after having been nominated in 1930 for best director for Madame X. Barrymore made a name for himself on stage before going to Hollywood in 1924.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Van Nuys, California. Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 - November 15, 1954), original name: Lionel Blythe, was an American actor of stage, radio and film, elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore. Barrymore family.