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Acting
March 4, 1874
October 18, 1965
Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, UK
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.
Self (archive footage)
1988
Judge Bullfinch
1949
Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
1949
Pop Dewing
1948
Dr. Mitchell
1947
Clarence
1946
Mr. Boyles
1946
Thomas Logan
1946
Horace P. Bogardus
1945
Capt. Sam Jackson
1945
as Self (archive footage)
as Judge Bullfinch
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
as Pop Dewing
as Dr. Mitchell
as Clarence
as Mr. Boyles
as Thomas Logan
as Horace P. Bogardus
as Capt. Sam Jackson
as Hobart Glenn
as Pop Wheeler
as Third Cousin
as Father Warecki
as Eugene Curie
as Mayor Orden
as Joseph Newton
as Dr. Sims
as Percival Wellsby
as Mr. Ballard
as Prof. Jerome
as Mr. Miller
as Mr. Hardy
as Abel Martin
as Pa
as Sheriff
as Matey
as Ben Els
as Gramp
as Judge Milliken
as Rev. Homer Smiley
as John Kingsley
as Dr. Evans
as Dr. Parsons
as Dr. Irving
as Pop
as Ned Elliott
as Wilkins
as Lem Peters
as Tom Reynolds
as Concierge
as Mac Mason
as Capt. Ben
as Cap
as Mr. Halevy
as Judge Pickett
as Theodore
as Fuzzy
as Baron Cesarea
as Dr. Cranley
as Ellery Gregory
as Pop Hallam
as Father Krug