Henry Travers
Age: 91 | From: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
Person Details
Birthday: 1874-03-05 01:42:30
Death: 1965-10-18 01:42:30
Aliases: Travers John Hegarty
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
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Movie Involvements: 39
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
It's a Wonderful Life
(1946) Clarence
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Joseph Newton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shadow of a Doubt
(1943) Joseph Newton
The Invisible Man
(1933) Dr. Cranley
High Sierra
(1941) Pa
Dark Victory
(1939) Dr. Parsons
Mrs. Miniver
(1942) Mr. Ballard
The Bells of St. Mary's
(1945) Horace P. BogardusActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1955 | Joseph Newton (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1949 | Judge Bullfinch | |
| Blakely (uncredited) | ||
| 1948 | Pop Dewing | |
| 1947 | Dr. Mitchell | |
| 1946 | Clarence | |
| Mr. Boyles | ||
| Thomas Logan | ||
| 1945 | Horace P. Bogardus | |
| Capt. Sam Jackson | ||
| Hobart Glenn | ||
| 1944 | Pop Wheeler | |
| Third Cousin | ||
| Father Warecki | ||
| 1943 | Eugene Curie | |
| Mayor Orden | ||
| Joseph Newton | ||
| 1942 | Dr. Sims | |
| Percival Wellsby | ||
| Mr. Ballard | ||
| 1941 | Prof. Jerome | |
| Mr. Miller | ||
| Mr. Hardy | ||
| Abel Martin | ||
| Pa | ||
| 1940 | Sheriff | |
| Matey | ||
| Ben Els | ||
| Gramp | ||
| 1939 | Judge Milliken | |
| Rev. Homer Smiley | ||
| John Kingsley | ||
| Dr. Evans | ||
| Dr. Parsons | ||
| Dr. Irving | ||
| Pop | ||
| 1938 | Ned Elliott | |
| 1936 | Wilkins | |
| 1935 | Lem Peters | |
| Tom Reynolds | ||
| Concierge | ||
| Mac Mason | ||
| Capt. Ben | ||
| Cap | ||
| Mr. Halevy | ||
| 1934 | Judge Pickett | |
| Theodore | ||
| Fuzzy | ||
| Baron Cesarea | ||
| 1933 | Dr. Cranley | |
| Ellery Gregory | ||
| Pop Hallam | ||
| Father Krug | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
