Name
Henry Travers
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1874-03-04
Deathday
1965-10-18 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK
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
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George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that p...
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After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggress...
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In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Un...
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Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem wat...
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In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their...
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In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his ...
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Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music ...
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A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclo...
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Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the...
- 1946 It's a Wonderful Life as Clarence
- 1933 The Invisible Man as Dr. Cranley
- 1943 Shadow of a Doubt as Joseph Newton
- 1942 Random Harvest as Dr. Sims
- 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's as Horace P. Bogardus
- 1945 The Naughty Nineties as Capt. Sam Jackson
- 1941 High Sierra as Pa
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard
- 1939 Dark Victory as Dr. Parsons
- 1941 Ball of Fire as Prof. Jerome
- 1943 Madame Curie as Eugene Curie
- 1940 Edison, the Man as Ben Els
- 1947 The Flame as Dr. Mitchell
- 1944 None Shall Escape as Father Warecki
- 1939 Dodge City as Dr. Irving
- 1940 Primrose Path as Gramp
- 1946 The Yearling as Mr. Boyles
- 1934 Born to Be Bad as Fuzzy
- 1933 Another Language as Pop Hallam
- 1935 Four Hours to Kill! as Mac Mason
- 1944 Dragon Seed as Third Cousin
- 1943 The Moon Is Down as Mayor Orden
- 1940 Anne of Windy Poplars as Matey
- 1935 Pursuit as Tom Reynolds
- 1935 Escapade as Concierge
- 1936 Too Many Parents as Wilkins
- 1933 Reunion in Vienna as Father Krug
- 1935 Maybe It's Love as Mr. Halevy
- 1941 I'll Wait for You as Mr. Miller
- 1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Abel Martin
- 1935 Seven Keys to Baldpate as Lem Peters
- 1944 The Very Thought of You as Pop Wheeler
- 1939 Remember? as Judge Milliken
- 1945 Thrill of a Romance as Hobart Glenn
- 1939 On Borrowed Time as Dr. Evans
- 1933 My Weakness as Ellery Gregory
- 1939 Stanley and Livingstone as John Kingsley
- 1939 The Rains Came as Rev. Homer Smiley
- 1946 Gallant Journey as Thomas Logan
- 1949 The Accused as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
- 1940 Wyoming as Sheriff
- 1934 Ready for Love as Judge Pickett
- 1935 After Office Hours as Cap
- 1948 Beyond Glory as Pop Dewing
- 1949 The Girl from Jones Beach as Judge Bullfinch
- 1938 The Sisters as Ned Elliott
- 1941 The Bad Man as Mr. Hardy
- 1934 Death Takes a Holiday as Baron Cesarea
- 1942 Pierre of the Plains as Percival Wellsby
- 1935 Captain Hurricane as Capt. Ben
- 1939 You Can't Get Away with Murder as Pop
- 1934 The Party's Over as Theodore
- 1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
