Henry Travers

Birthday:

03/04/1874

Place of birth:

Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, 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.



Credits

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Self (archive footage)
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
Judge Bullfinch
The Accused (1949)
Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Beyond Glory (1948)
Pop Dewing
The Flame (1947)
Dr. Mitchell
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Clarence
The Yearling (1946)
Mr. Boyles
Gallant Journey (1946)
Thomas Logan
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Horace P. Bogardus
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Capt. Sam Jackson
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Hobart Glenn
The Very Thought of You (1944)
Pop Wheeler
Dragon Seed (1944)
Third Cousin
None Shall Escape (1944)
Father Warecki
Madame Curie (1943)
Eugene Curie
The Moon Is Down (1943)
Mayor Orden
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Joseph Newton
Random Harvest (1942)
Dr. Sims
Pierre of the Plains (1942)
Percival Wellsby
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mr. Ballard
Ball of Fire (1941)
Prof. Jerome
I'll Wait for You (1941)
Mr. Miller
The Bad Man (1941)
Mr. Hardy
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Abel Martin
High Sierra (1941)
Pa
Wyoming (1940)
Sheriff
Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
Matey
Edison, the Man (1940)
Ben Els
Primrose Path (1940)
Gramp
Remember? (1939)
Judge Milliken
The Rains Came (1939)
Rev. Homer Smiley
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
John Kingsley
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Dr. Evans
Dark Victory (1939)
Dr. Parsons
Dodge City (1939)
Dr. Irving
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Pop
The Sisters (1938)
Ned Elliott
Too Many Parents (1936)
Wilkins
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Lem Peters
Pursuit (1935)
Tom Reynolds
Escapade (1935)
Concierge
Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Mac Mason
Captain Hurricane (1935)
Capt. Ben
After Office Hours (1935)
Cap
Maybe It's Love (1935)
Mr. Halevy
Ready for Love (1934)
Judge Pickett
The Party's Over (1934)
Theodore
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Fuzzy
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Baron Cesarea
The Invisible Man (1933)
Dr. Cranley
My Weakness (1933)
Ellery Gregory
Another Language (1933)
Pop Hallam
Reunion in Vienna (1933)
Father Krug