Henry Travers
Born March 04, 1874 (Age: 152)
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Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, 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.
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.
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Filmography
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945
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as Horace P. Bogardus
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Age: 71
Random Harvest
1942
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as Dr. Sims
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Age: 68
Pierre of the Plains
1942
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as Percival Wellsby
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Age: 68
Mrs. Miniver
1942
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as Mr. Ballard
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Age: 68
Ball of Fire
1941
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as Prof. Jerome
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Age: 67
I'll Wait for You
1941
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as Mr. Miller
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Age: 67
The Bad Man
1941
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as Mr. Hardy
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Age: 67
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
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as Abel Martin
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Age: 67