John Drew Barrymore, the troubled heir to an acting dynasty and the father of Drew Barrymore, died yesterday aged 72.
"He was a cool cat. Please smile when you think of him," Drew Barrymore said in a statement. No information was released about the cause of death or where in Los Angeles he died.
Barrymore was born in Beverly Hills on June 4, 1932 into an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore. His mother was actor Dolores Costello. Drew Barrymore is his daughter by his third wife, Ildiko Jaid Barrymore.
