Henry Travers
ActingAlso Known As
Travers John Hegarty, Генри Траверс, Генри Треверс
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.
Movies
(53 total)
It's a Wonderful Life
as Clarence
Shadow of a Doubt
as Joseph Newton
The Invisible Man
as Dr. Cranley
High Sierra
as Pa
Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard
Ball of Fire
as Prof. Jerome
Dark Victory
as Dr. Parsons
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus
Random Harvest
as Dr. Sims
Dodge City
as Dr. Irving
The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles
Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie
Death Takes a Holiday
as Baron Cesarea
None Shall Escape
as Father Warecki
The Naughty Nineties
as Capt. Sam Jackson
On Borrowed Time
as Dr. Evans
Edison, the Man
as Ben Els
Primrose Path
as Gramp
The Rains Came
as Rev. Homer Smiley
The Accused
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)