Harry Davenport
Born: 1866-01-19 in Canton, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1949-08-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers.
Filmography
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
1950
- Riding High as Johnson
1949
- Little Women as Dr. Barnes
- Down to the Sea in Ships as Benjamin Harris
- That Forsyte Woman as Old Jolyon Forsyte
- Tell It to the Judge as Judge MacKenzie Meredith
1948
- Three Daring Daughters as Dr. Cannon
- The Man from Texas as Pop Hickey
- That Lady in Ermine as Luigi
- The Decision of Christopher Blake as Courtroom Attendant
- For the Love of Mary as Justice Peabody
1947
- Stallion Road as Dr. Stevens
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Judge Thaddeus Turner
- Keeper of the Bees as Michael Worthington
- The Fabulous Texan as Rev. Baker
- The Farmer's Daughter as Dr. Matthew Sulven
- Sport of Kings as Maj. Denning
- That Hagen Girl as Judge Merrivale
1946
- Lady Luck as Judge Martin
- G.I. War Brides as Grandpa Giles
- Three Wise Fools as The Ancient
- Faithful in My Fashion as Great Grandpa
- A Boy and His Dog as Squire Jim Kirby
- Courage of Lassie as Judge Payson
- Claudia and David as Dr. Harry
- A Boy, a Girl and a Dog as Gramps
1945
- Adventure as Dr. Ashton
- The Enchanted Forest as Old John
- Too Young to Know as Judge Boller
- This Love of Ours as Dr. Wilkerson
- Pardon My Past as Grandpa Pemberton
- She Wouldn't Say Yes as Albert
1944
- Kismet as Agha
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Dr. Bertram Charles
- Meet Me in St. Louis as Grandpa
- Music for Millions as Doctor
- The Impatient Years as Minister
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Arthur Davies
- December 7th as Mr. 'C'
- Shantytown as 'Doc' Herndon
- Princess O'Rourke as Supreme Court Judge
- Gangway for Tomorrow as Fred Taylor
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday
- Jack London as Prof. Hilliard
- Government Girl as Senator MacVickers
- Headin' for God's Country as Clem Adams
- We've Never Been Licked as Pop Lambert
1942
- Kings Row as Colonel Skeffington
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Bane
- Tales of Manhattan as Professor Lyons
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Amos Kidder
- Larceny, Inc. as Homer Bigelow
1941
- Hurricane Smith as Robert Ingersoll Reed
- Meet John Doe as Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)
- I Wanted Wings as 'Sandbags' Riley
- One Foot in Heaven as Elias Samson
- That Uncertain Feeling as Jones
- The Bride Came C.O.D. as Pop Tolliver
1940
- Foreign Correspondent as Mr. Powers
- Lucky Partners as Judge
- Too Many Husbands as George
- Grandpa Goes To Town as Grandpa
- Earl of Puddlestone as Grandpa Ed Carson
- I Want a Divorce as Grandpa Brokaw
- All This, and Heaven Too as Pierre
- Granny Get Your Gun as Nathaniel "Nate" Paulson
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Judge
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Dr. Meade
- Juarez as Dr. Samuel Basch
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Judge Rider
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as King Louis XI
- Made for Each Other as Dr. Healy (uncredited)
- Tail Spin as T.P. Lester
- The Long Shot as Henry Sharon
- Money To Burn as Grandpa Ed Carson
- The Covered Trailer as Grandpa Ed Carson
- Exile Express as Dr. Hite
- My Wife's Relatives as Grandpa Ed Carson
- Death of a Champion as Guy Lanyard
- Should Husbands Work? as Grandpa Higgins
1938
- Man-Proof as Hitchhiker (uncredited)
- Marie Antoinette as Monsieur de Cosse (uncredited)
- The Sisters as Doc Moore
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Dr. Parsons
- You Can't Take It with You as Judge
- Saleslady as Miles Cannon
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Uncle Hannibal Smith
- The Rage of Paris as Pop, Caretaker
- The Higgins Family as Grandpa William Jordan
- The First Hundred Years as Uncle Dawson
- Young Fugitives as Joel Bentham
- Reckless Living as 'General' Jeff
1937
- First Lady as Charles
- Armored Car as Pop Logan
- Radio Patrol as John P. Adams, inventor
- White Bondage as Pop Craig
- The Life of Emile Zola as Chief of Staff
- Wells Fargo as Ingalls, banker
- Under Cover of Night as Dr. Reed
- As Good as Married as Jessup
- Fly Away Baby as Colonel Higgam
- Paradise Express as Jed Carson
- The Perfect Specimen as Carl Carter
- They Won't Forget as Confederate Soldier
- Fit for a King as Archduke Julio
- Her Husband's Secretary as Dan Kingdon
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air as Doc Quinn
1936
- The Case of the Black Cat as Peter Laxter
- King of Hockey as Tom McKenna
1935
- The Scoundrel as Slezack
1934
- No More West as Judge
1933
- Get That Venus as Mr. Rendleby
1932
- The Campus Mystery as Dean Perry
1930
- Her Unborn Child as Dr. Remington
1919
- A Girl at Bay as Frank Galt
- The Unknown Quantity as Septimus Kinsolving
1917
- The Millionaire's Double ... (Director)
- Tillie Wakes Up ... (Director)
- A Woman Alone ... (Director)
- Sowers and Reapers as Henry Ainsworth
- The Planter as Short
1916
- For a Woman’s Fair Name ... (Director)
- The Wheel of the Law as John Daniels
1915
- C.O.D. as C.O. Darlington
- Father and the Boys as Tobias Ford
1914
- Damon and Pythias as Phillistus (as H. Davenport)