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

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

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

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

1946

The Yearling

as Mr. Boyles

1934

1933

Another Language

as Pop Hallam

1935

1944

Dragon Seed

as Third Cousin

1943

The Moon Is Down

as Mayor Orden

1935

Pursuit

as Tom Reynolds

1935

Escapade

as Concierge

1936

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

1935

1944

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

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

1934

The Party's Over

as Theodore

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

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