Henry Travers
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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.
Known for
Credits
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
as Clarence
The Invisible Man (1933)
as Dr. Cranley
Captain Hurricane (1935)
as Capt. Ben
The Flame (1947)
as Dr. Mitchell
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Mr. Ballard
Dodge City (1939)
as Dr. Irving
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
as John Kingsley
Ball of Fire (1941)
as Prof. Jerome
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
as Joseph Newton
The Yearling (1946)
as Mr. Boyles
Dark Victory (1939)
as Dr. Parsons
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
as Horace P. Bogardus
High Sierra (1941)
as Pa
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
as Capt. Sam Jackson
Random Harvest (1942)
as Dr. Sims
Madame Curie (1943)
as Eugene Curie
Dragon Seed (1944)
as Third Cousin
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
as Baron Cesarea
Primrose Path (1940)
as Gramp
The Rains Came (1939)
as Rev. Homer Smiley
Reunion in Vienna (1933)
as Father Krug
On Borrowed Time (1939)
as Dr. Evans
Beyond Glory (1948)
as Pop Dewing
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
as Hobart Glenn
Pierre of the Plains (1942)
as Percival Wellsby
The Moon Is Down (1943)
as Mayor Orden
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
The Accused (1949)
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
as Lem Peters
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
as Pop
I'll Wait for You (1941)
as Mr. Miller
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
as Judge Bullfinch
None Shall Escape (1944)
as Father Warecki
Gallant Journey (1946)
as Thomas Logan
The Sisters (1938)
as Ned Elliott
Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
as Matey
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Abel Martin
Born to Be Bad (1934)
as Fuzzy
Pursuit (1935)
as Tom Reynolds
After Office Hours (1935)
as Cap
Edison, the Man (1940)
as Ben Els
The Bad Man (1941)
as Mr. Hardy
Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
as Mac Mason
Wyoming (1940)
as Sheriff
The Very Thought of You (1944)
as Pop Wheeler
Too Many Parents (1936)
as Wilkins
Remember? (1939)
as Judge Milliken
Maybe It's Love (1935)
as Mr. Halevy
Escapade (1935)
as Concierge
The Party's Over (1934)
as Theodore
My Weakness (1933)
as Ellery Gregory
Another Language (1933)
as Pop Hallam
Ready for Love (1934)
as Judge Pickett