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The Flame

as Dr. Mitchell

1947
It's a Wonderful Life

as Clarence

1946
The Yearling

as Mr. Boyles

1946
The Bells of St. Mary's

as Horace P. Bogardus

1945
The Naughty Nineties

as Capt. Sam Jackson

1945
Thrill of a Romance

as Hobart Glenn

1945
None Shall Escape

as Father Warecki

1944
Dragon Seed

as Third Cousin

1944
The Very Thought of You

as Pop Wheeler

1944
Shadow of a Doubt

as Joseph Newton

1943
Madame Curie

as Eugene Curie

1943
Random Harvest

as Dr. Sims

1942
Mrs. Miniver

as Mr. Ballard

1942
Pierre of the Plains

as Percival Wellsby

1942
High Sierra

as Pa

1941
Ball of Fire

as Prof. Jerome

1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

as Abel Martin

1941
The Bad Man

as Mr. Hardy

1941
I'll Wait for You

as Mr. Miller

1941
Edison, the Man

as Ben Els

1940
Wyoming

as Sheriff

1940
Dodge City

as Dr. Irving

1939
Dark Victory

as Dr. Parsons

1939
On Borrowed Time

as Dr. Evans

1939
Stanley and Livingstone

as John Kingsley

1939
Remember?

as Judge Milliken

1939
The Sisters

as Ned Elliott

1938
Maybe It's Love

as Mr. Halevy

1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate

as Lem Peters

1935
Pursuit

as Tom Reynolds

1935
Henry Travers Henry Travers

Birthday

1874-03-05

Place of Birth

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England

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.
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