Henry Travers
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1874-03-04 (91 years old)
Deathday
1965-10-18
Place of Birth
Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, UK
Also known As
Travers John Hegarty
Генри Траверс
Генри Треверс
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 T...
Acting
1946
as Clarence
1933
as Dr. Cranley
1943
as Joseph Newton
1942
as Dr. Sims
1945
as Horace P. Bogardus
1945
as Capt. Sam Jackson
1941
as Pa
1942
as Mr. Ballard
1939
as Dr. Parsons
1941
as Prof. Jerome
1943
as Eugene Curie
1940
as Ben Els
1947
as Dr. Mitchell
1944
as Father Warecki
1939
as Dr. Irving
1940
as Gramp
1946
as Mr. Boyles
1934
as Fuzzy
1933
as Pop Hallam
1935
as Mac Mason
1944
as Third Cousin
1943
as Mayor Orden
1940
as Matey
1935
as Tom Reynolds
1935
as Concierge
1936
as Wilkins
1933
as Father Krug
1935
as Mr. Halevy
1941
as Mr. Miller
1941
as Abel Martin
1935
as Lem Peters
1944
as Pop Wheeler
1939
as Judge Milliken
1945
as Hobart Glenn
1939
as Dr. Evans
1933
as Ellery Gregory
1939
as John Kingsley
1939
as Rev. Homer Smiley
1946
as Thomas Logan
1949
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
1940
as Sheriff
1934
as Judge Pickett
1935
as Cap
1948
as Pop Dewing
1949
as Judge Bullfinch
1938
as Ned Elliott
1941
as Mr. Hardy
1934
as Baron Cesarea
1942
as Percival Wellsby
1935
as Capt. Ben
1939
1934
as Theodore
1987
as Self (archive footage)
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