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Henry Travers
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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 suc…
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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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Henry Travers's Filmography
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Girl from Jones Beach
as Judge Bullfinch
The Accused
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Beyond Glory
as Pop Dewing
The Flame
as Dr. Mitchell
It's a Wonderful Life
as Clarence
The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles
Gallant Journey
as Thomas Logan
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus
The Naughty Nineties
as Capt. Sam Jackson
Thrill of a Romance
as Hobart Glenn
The Very Thought of You
as Pop Wheeler
Dragon Seed
as Third Cousin
None Shall Escape
as Father Warecki
Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie
The Moon Is Down
as Mayor Orden
Shadow of a Doubt
as Joseph Newton
Random Harvest
as Dr. Sims
Pierre of the Plains
as Percival Wellsby
Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard
Ball of Fire
as Prof. Jerome
I'll Wait for You
as Mr. Miller
The Bad Man
as Mr. Hardy
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Abel Martin
High Sierra
as Pa
Wyoming
as Sheriff
Anne of Windy Poplars
as Matey
Edison, the Man
as Ben Els
Primrose Path
as Gramp
Remember?
as Judge Milliken
The Rains Came
as Rev. Homer Smiley
Stanley and Livingstone
as John Kingsley
On Borrowed Time
as Dr. Evans
Dark Victory
as Dr. Parsons
Dodge City
as Dr. Irving
You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Pop
The Sisters
as Ned Elliott
No Poster
Too Many Parents
as Wilkins
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Lem Peters
Pursuit
as Tom Reynolds
Escapade
as Concierge
Four Hours to Kill!
as Mac Mason
Captain Hurricane
as Capt. Ben
After Office Hours
as Cap
Maybe It's Love
as Mr. Halevy
Ready for Love
as Judge Pickett
The Party's Over
as Theodore
Born to Be Bad
as Fuzzy
Death Takes a Holiday
as Baron Cesarea
The Invisible Man
as Dr. Cranley
My Weakness
as Ellery Gregory
Another Language
as Pop Hallam
Reunion in Vienna
as Father Krug