Birth Name: John Blyth Barrymore III
Place of Birth: Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 15, 1954
Ethnicity:
*English, Irish, German (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
John Blyth Barrymore is an American actor. He is the son of actors John Drew Barrymore and actress Cara Williams (Bernice Kamiat). His half-sister is actress, writer, director, producer, and model Drew Barrymore.
John’s paternal grandfather was John Barrymore, an actor (born John Sidney Blyth, the son of actors Maurice Herbert Barrymore, born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe, and Georgiana Drew, born Georgiana Emma Drew). John was born in Pennsylvania. John’s siblings were actors Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe) and Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe). John had English and Irish ancestry (some of his family were English people who were born and lived in India). Drew’s great-grandfather Maurice was the son of William Edward Blythe, who was born in Calcutta, India, and of Charlotte Matilda Chamberlayne/Chamberlain, who was born in West Bengal, India. Drew’s great-grandmother Georgianna was the daughter of actors John Drew (born Jonathan Henry Drewland, in Dublin, Ireland) and Louisa Lane Drew (born Louisa Lane, in London, England).
John’s paternal grandmother was actress Dolores Costello (the daughter of actors Maurice Costello, born Maurice George Costello, and Mae Costello, born Mae Altschuk). Dolores was born in Pennsylvania. Maurice was the son of Irish parents, Thomas Costello and Ellen Fitzgerald. Mae was the daughter of Lewis/Louis Altschuk, who was German, and of Catherine Callender. It is not clear if Catherine was also of German descent.
John’s maternal grandparents were Benjamin Irving Kamiat and Florence “Flora” Schwartz. Benjamin was Jewish, and was born in Lemberg, Austria. Florence was the daughter of Romanian Jewish immigrants.
Sources: Genealogy of John Blythe Barrymore – https://www.geni.com
Genealogies of John Blythe Barrymore (focusing on her father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://www.wikitree.com
Genealogy of John’s father – http://www.findagrave.com
John’s paternal grandmother, Dolores Costello, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
John’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Lewis/Louis Altschuk, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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