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.
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | The Accused | Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited) | 1949-01-12 |
Movie | The Girl from Jones Beach | Judge Bullfinch | 1949-07-16 |
Movie | Beyond Glory | Pop Dewing | 1948-08-03 |
Movie | The Flame | Dr. Mitchell | 1947-11-24 |
Movie | Gallant Journey | Thomas Logan | 1946-09-24 |
Movie | It's a Wonderful Life | Clarence | 1946-12-20 |
Movie | The Yearling | Mr. Boyles | 1946-12-18 |
Movie | Thrill of a Romance | Hobart Glenn | 1945-05-23 |
Movie | The Naughty Nineties | Capt. Sam Jackson | 1945-06-20 |
Movie | None Shall Escape | Father Warecki | 1944-02-03 |
Movie | Dragon Seed | Third Cousin | 1944-07-20 |
Movie | The Very Thought of You | Pop Wheeler | 1944-10-20 |
Movie | The Moon Is Down | Mayor Orden | 1943-03-14 |
Movie | Madame Curie | Eugene Curie | 1943-12-16 |
Movie | Pierre of the Plains | Percival Wellsby | 1942-07-29 |
Movie | Mrs. Miniver | Mr. Ballard | 1942-07-03 |
Movie | Random Harvest | Dr. Sims | 1942-12-17 |
Movie | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Abel Martin | 1941-03-14 |
Movie | High Sierra | Pa | 1941-01-23 |
Movie | The Bad Man | Mr. Hardy | 1941-03-28 |
Movie | I'll Wait for You | Mr. Miller | 1941-05-16 |
Movie | Ball of Fire | Prof. Jerome | 1941-12-02 |
Movie | Primrose Path | Gramp | 1940-03-22 |
Movie | Edison, the Man | Ben Els | 1940-05-10 |
Movie | Wyoming | Sheriff | 1940-09-13 |
Movie | Anne of Windy Poplars | Matey | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | Dodge City | Dr. Irving | 1939-04-08 |
Movie | You Can't Get Away with Murder | Pop | 1939-03-23 |
Movie | On Borrowed Time | Dr. Evans | 1939-07-07 |
Movie | Dark Victory | Dr. Parsons | 1939-04-20 |
Movie | The Rains Came | Rev. Homer Smiley | 1939-09-15 |
Movie | Stanley and Livingstone | John Kingsley | 1939-08-18 |
Movie | Remember? | Judge Milliken | 1939-12-19 |
Movie | The Sisters | Ned Elliott | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | Too Many Parents | Wilkins | 1936-03-19 |
Movie | After Office Hours | Cap | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | Maybe It's Love | Mr. Halevy | 1935-01-12 |
Movie | Captain Hurricane | Capt. Ben | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Pursuit | Tom Reynolds | 1935-08-09 |
Movie | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Lem Peters | 1935-12-13 |
Movie | Escapade | Concierge | 1935-07-05 |
Movie | Four Hours to Kill! | Mac Mason | 1935-04-11 |
Movie | Death Takes a Holiday | Baron Cesarea | 1934-03-30 |
Movie | Born to Be Bad | Fuzzy | 1934-05-18 |
Movie | The Party's Over | Theodore | 1934-08-30 |
Movie | Ready for Love | Judge Pickett | 1934-11-30 |
Movie | Reunion in Vienna | Father Krug | 1933-06-16 |
Movie | Another Language | Pop Hallam | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | The Invisible Man | Dr. Cranley | 1933-11-03 |
Movie | My Weakness | Ellery Gregory | 1933-09-22 |
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