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Aliases: Henry Stephenson Garraway , Henry Stephenson Garroway , Harry Stephenson

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Granada, British West Indies

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Movie Involvements: 56

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role. In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938). Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior. He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage. He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter. Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.

Most Famous Work

Mutiny on the Bounty
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7

Mutiny on the Bounty

(1935) Joseph Banks
Oliver Twist
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8

Oliver Twist

(1948) Mr. Brownlow
Little Women
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7

Little Women

(1933) Mr. Laurence
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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7

The Charge of the Light Brigade

(1936) Sir Charles Macefield
Captain Blood
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7

Captain Blood

(1935) Lord Willoughby
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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7

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(1939) Sir Ronald Ramsgate
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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6
Tarzan and the Amazons
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6

Tarzan and the Amazons

(1945) Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1949 Sir Charles Loring
1948 General Fitzgerald
Lord Pennystone
Mr. Brownlow
1947 King Albert
Judge
Evans Biddle
Don Humberto Balcares
Wellington Drake
1946 Lord Wyndham
Prof. Duval
Mr. DuBois
Dr. Tyrell
Blakely
Omar Cole
Minister
1945 Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
1944 J. H. Wadsworth
Sir Reginald Meade
John Dyckman Brown I
Gen. Hetherton
1943 Mr. Bryant
Sir Humphrey Quilp
1942 Col. Algernon Blimpton
General Cathaway
N/A
1941 General Anatole Mirbeau
Frederick Collins
1940 Don Diego Quintana
Emperor Franz Joseph
Capt. Andrew
Robert R. Livingston
1939 Lord Burghley
Sir Ronald Ramsgate
Sir Thomas Lancing
1938 Pasquel Sr.
Count Mathieu de Lesseps
Count de Mercey
Felix Anstruther
Count Albert Sandor
1937 Mr. Fletcher
Count Anastas Walewski
Prince Johann
Duke of Norfolk
Walter Mitchell
1936 Lord Athleigh
Sir Charles Macefield
Edward, Lord Farrington
Mr. Horace Bennett
Charles Patterson
Prof. Jerome Hargraves
Havisham
1935 Lord Willoughby
Bishop
Joseph Banks
Russian Ambassador Gregory
Maj. Winslow
Dr. Jock Frazier
Colonel Harrison Sr.
Barney Newmark
Emperor Franz Josef
1934 Charles Venables
Sir Maurice
John Connors
Dean Mercer
Sir Laurence Mont
Mr. Hugh Clarkson
King Anatol XII
N/A
Frensham
Sir Basil Pemberton
1933 Hector Stribling
Mr. Laurence
De Conti
Major Thorne
Colonel Sam Colby
Thornton Drake
1932 Rufus Collier
John Tring
Doctor Alliot
Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
1925 Peter Van Dusen
Arnold Kirke
1919 Sir Howard Furnival
Year Character Movie/Tv

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