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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1874-03-04 (151 years old)

Place of Birth

Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, UK

Henry Travers

Biography:

British-born Henry Travers was a veteran of the English stage before emigrating to the U.S. in 1917. He gained more stage experience there on Broadway working with the Theatre Guild, and began his long film career with Reunion in Vienna (1933). Travers' kindly, grandfatherly demeanor became familiar to filmgoers over the next 25 years, especially in films like High Sierra (1941), where he played Joan Leslie's kindly but slyly observant uncle, and the generous Mr. Bogardus in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), but it's as the somewhat befuddled angel Clarence Oddbody assigned to James Stewart in the classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) that Travers will forever be known. After a long and successful career, he retired from the screen in 1949, and died in Hollywood in 1965.

Known For

Acting

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Joseph Newton (archive footage) (uncredited)

1949

The Accused as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
The Girl from Jones Beach as Judge Bullfinch

1948

Beyond Glory as Pop Dewing

1947

The Flame as Dr. Mitchell

1946

The Yearling as Mr. Boyles
Gallant Journey as Thomas Logan

1945

The Bells of St. Mary's as Horace P. Bogardus
The Naughty Nineties as Capt. Sam Jackson
Thrill of a Romance as Hobart Glenn

1944

None Shall Escape as Father Warecki
Dragon Seed as Third Cousin

1943

Shadow of a Doubt as Joseph Newton
Madame Curie as Eugene Curie
The Moon Is Down as Mayor Orden

1942

Random Harvest as Dr. Sims
Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard
Pierre of the Plains as Percival Wellsby

1941

Ball of Fire as Prof. Jerome
I'll Wait for You as Mr. Miller
The Bad Man as Mr. Hardy

1940

Edison, the Man as Ben Els
Primrose Path as Gramp
Wyoming as Sheriff

1939

Dark Victory as Dr. Parsons
Dodge City as Dr. Irving
Remember? as Judge Milliken
On Borrowed Time as Dr. Evans
Stanley and Livingstone as John Kingsley
The Rains Came as Rev. Homer Smiley

1938

The Sisters as Ned Elliott

1936

Too Many Parents as Wilkins

1935

Four Hours to Kill! as Mac Mason
Pursuit as Tom Reynolds
Escapade as Concierge
Maybe It's Love as Mr. Halevy
Captain Hurricane as Capt. Ben

1934

Ready for Love as Judge Pickett
Death Takes a Holiday as Baron Cesarea
The Party's Over as Theodore

1933

The Invisible Man as Dr. Cranley
Another Language as Pop Hallam
Reunion in Vienna as Father Krug
My Weakness as Ellery Gregory