He went from the near-mythical Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns to a *singing/comedic * role in “Paint Your Wagon” to a pure comedy role in “Every Which Way But Loose” all the way back to an old, realistic, hired gun in “Unforgiven.”
Lionel Barrymore played the my-way-or-the-highway bad guy in It’s a Wonderful Life and the gentle patriarch of the live-and-let-live clan in You Can’t Take It With You
He also played on Broadway in Sondheim’s "Assasscins to good reviews, then opened in London in Jonathan Larsen’s “tick…tick…BO"OM.” He’s apparently very good at singing and dancing.