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Article: JOHN D. BARRYMORE, ACTOR, DEAD AT 72.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2004
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John Drew Barrymore, the sometimes troubled heir to an acting dynasty and absent father of movie star Drew Barrymore, died Monday. He was 72.
"He was a cool cat. Please smile when you think of him," Drew Barrymore said in a statement issued by her publicist's office.
No information was released about the cause of death or where in Los Angeles he died.
John D. Barrymore was part of an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore. Drew Barrymore was his daughter by his third wife, Ildiko Jaid Barrymore.
John D. Barrymore was ...