Henry Travers
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.
Acting
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It's a Wonderful Life
as Clarence
1946
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Shadow of a Doubt
as Joseph Newton
1943
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The Invisible Man
as Dr. Cranley
1933
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High Sierra
as Pa
1941
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Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard
1942
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Ball of Fire
as Prof. Jerome
1941
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Dark Victory
as Dr. Parsons
1939
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The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus
1945
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Random Harvest
as Dr. Sims
1942
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Dodge City
as Dr. Irving
1939
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The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles
1946
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Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie
1943
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Death Takes a Holiday
as Baron Cesarea
1934
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None Shall Escape
as Father Warecki
1944
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On Borrowed Time
as Dr. Evans
1939
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The Naughty Nineties
as Capt. Sam Jackson
1945
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Edison, the Man
as Ben Els
1940
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The Rains Came
as Rev. Homer Smiley
1939
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The Accused
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
1949
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Primrose Path
as Gramp
1940
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Pop
1939
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Stanley and Livingstone
as John Kingsley
1939
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Born to Be Bad
as Fuzzy
1934
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Dragon Seed
as Third Cousin
1944