Henry Travers
Born: 1874-03-04 in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK
Died: 1965-10-18
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
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
- It's a Wonderful Life as Clarence
- The Yearling as Mr. Boyles
- Gallant Journey as Thomas Logan
1945
- The Naughty Nineties as Capt. Sam Jackson
- The Bells of St. Mary's as Horace P. Bogardus
- Thrill of a Romance as Hobart Glenn
1944
- Dragon Seed as Third Cousin
- None Shall Escape as Father Warecki
- The Very Thought of You as Pop Wheeler
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt as Joseph Newton
- Madame Curie as Eugene Curie
- The Moon Is Down as Mayor Orden
1942
- Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard
- Random Harvest as Dr. Sims
- Pierre of the Plains as Percival Wellsby
1941
- High Sierra as Pa
- Ball of Fire as Prof. Jerome
- The Bad Man as Mr. Hardy
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Abel Martin
- I'll Wait for You as Mr. Miller
1940
- Primrose Path as Gramp
- Edison, the Man as Ben Els
- Anne of Windy Poplars as Matey
- Wyoming as Sheriff
1939
- Dodge City as Dr. Irving
- Dark Victory as Dr. Parsons
- The Rains Came as Rev. Homer Smiley
- Stanley and Livingstone as John Kingsley
- On Borrowed Time as Dr. Evans
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Pop
- Remember? as Judge Milliken
1938
- The Sisters as Ned Elliott
1936
- Too Many Parents as Wilkins
1935
- Pursuit as Tom Reynolds
- After Office Hours as Cap
- Seven Keys to Baldpate as Lem Peters
- Four Hours to Kill! as Mac Mason
- Escapade as Concierge
- Captain Hurricane as Capt. Ben
- Maybe It's Love as Mr. Halevy
1934
- Death Takes a Holiday as Baron Cesarea
- Ready for Love as Judge Pickett
- Born to Be Bad as Fuzzy
- The Party's Over as Theodore
1933
- The Invisible Man as Dr. Cranley
- My Weakness as Ellery Gregory
- Reunion in Vienna as Father Krug
- Another Language as Pop Hallam