page_title: John Drew Barrymore
section_title: Return to LA
hierarchical_section_title: John Drew Barrymore / Career / Return to LA
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Anne Helm and John Drew Barrymore from their guest appearances on Gunsmoke.
context_page_description: John Drew Barrymore was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress Drew Barrymore. Diana Barrymore was his half-sister from his father's second marriage.
context_section_description: Barrymore returned to Los Angeles. He announced he made 16 films abroad but "I'm not going to do anything bad any more. I feel I'm straightened out and down the block. Somewhere around the block I lost half my ego, so I don't work for applause." He also said he had started to write scripts.|author=He guest starred on episodes of various television series, including Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Run for Your Life, Jericho, and Dundee and the Culhane, and appeared in the 1967 television film Winchester '73.
  Barrymore's social behavior continued to obstruct his professional progress. In the 1960s, he was occasionally incarcerated for drug use, public drunkenness, and spousal abuse. In 1964 he went to prison for possession of marijuana.
  In 1966, Barrymore was signed to play a guest role as Lazarus in the Star Trek episode "The Alternative Factor". However, he failed to show up (replaced at the last minute by Robert Brown), resulting in a SAG suspension of six months.
caption: Barrymore with Anne Helm in a Gunsmoke appearance, 1964
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