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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 15, 1871
Died
April 24, 1956
Place of Birth
Granada, British West Indies
Also Known As
- Henry Stephenson Garraway
- Henry Stephenson Garroway
- Harry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson
0.2 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role. In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938). Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior. He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage. He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter. Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.
Known For
4.8
Sir Charles Loring
Challenge to Lassie
1949
6.4
General Fitzgerald
Enchantment
1948
6.5
Lord Pennystone
Julia Misbehaves
1948
7.5
Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist
1948
6.7
King Albert
Song of Love
1947
6.8
Judge
Ivy
1947
6.0
Evans Biddle
Dark Delusion
1947
0.0
Don Humberto Balcares
The Homestretch
1947
5.3
Wellington Drake
Time Out of Mind
1947
6.4
Lord Wyndham
The Locket
1946
Credits
Challenge to Lassie
as Sir Charles Loring
1949
4.8
Enchantment
as General Fitzgerald
1948
6.4
Julia Misbehaves
as Lord Pennystone
1948
6.5
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Brownlow
1948
7.5
Song of Love
as King Albert
1947
6.7
Ivy
as Judge
1947
6.8
Dark Delusion
as Evans Biddle
1947
6.0
The Homestretch
as Don Humberto Balcares
1947
0.0
Time Out of Mind
as Wellington Drake
1947
5.3
The Locket
as Lord Wyndham
1946
6.4
The Return of Monte Cristo
as Prof. Duval
1946
6.5
Her Sister's Secret
as Mr. DuBois
1946
6.5
Of Human Bondage
as Dr. Tyrell
1946
6.0
The Green Years
as Blakely
1946
6.5
Night and Day
as Omar Cole
1946
5.7
Heartbeat
as Minister
1946
4.9
Tarzan and the Amazons
as Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
1945
6.3
Reckless Age
as J. H. Wadsworth
1944
0.0
Secrets of Scotland Yard
as Sir Reginald Meade
1944
5.3
Two Girls and a Sailor
as John Dyckman Brown I
1944
5.7
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Gen. Hetherton
1944
5.5
Mr. Lucky
as Mr. Bryant
1943
6.9
The Mantrap
as Sir Humphrey Quilp
1943
6.0
Half Way to Shanghai
as Col. Algernon Blimpton
1942
0.0
This Above All
as General Cathaway
1942
6.7
Rings on Her Fingers
as Colonel Prentiss
1942
6.5
Lady from Louisiana
as General Anatole Mirbeau
1941
5.3
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Frederick Collins
1941
4.0
Down Argentine Way
as Don Diego Quintana
1940
6.1
Spring Parade
as Emperor Franz Joseph
1940
6.7
It's a Date
as Capt. Andrew
1940
6.4
Little Old New York
as Robert R. Livingston
1940
4.0
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Lord Burghley
1939
6.3
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Ronald Ramsgate
1939
6.9
Tarzan Finds a Son!
as Sir Thomas Lancing
1939
6.1
Dramatic School
as Pasquel Sr.
1938
6.2
Suez
as Count Mathieu de Lesseps
1938
5.2
Marie Antoinette
as Count de Mercey
1938
6.6
The Young in Heart
as Felix Anstruther
1938
6.4
The Baroness and the Butler
as Count Albert Sandor
1938
5.2
Wise Girl
as Mr. Fletcher
1937
7.0
Conquest
as Count Anastas Walewski
1937
6.5
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Prince Johann
1937
5.2
The Prince and the Pauper
as Duke of Norfolk
1937
6.8
When You're in Love
as Walter Mitchell
1937
6.7
Beloved Enemy
as Lord Athleigh
1936
6.1
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Sir Charles Macefield
1936
6.5
Give Me Your Heart
as Edward, Lord Farrington
1936
6.0
Walking on Air
as Mr. Horace Bennett
1936
5.8
Hearts Divided
as Charles Patterson
1936
5.0
Half Angel
as Prof. Jerome Hargraves
1936
0.0
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Havisham
1936
6.7
Captain Blood
as Lord Willoughby
1935
7.2
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Joseph Banks
1935
7.3
The Perfect Gentleman
as Bishop
1935
4.5
Rendezvous
as Russian Ambassador Gregory
1935
4.8
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Maj. Winslow
1935
6.0
The Flame Within
as Dr. Jock Frazier
1935
5.2
Reckless
as Colonel Harrison Sr.
1935
5.3
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Barney Newmark
1935
6.0
The Night Is Young
as Emperor Franz Josef
1935
5.7
What Every Woman Knows
as Charles Venables
1934
7.0
Outcast Lady
as Sir Maurice
1934
6.3
The Richest Girl in the World
as John Connors
1934
5.6
She Loves Me Not
as Dean Mercer
1934
5.5
One More River
as Sir Laurence Mont
1934
5.3
Stingaree
as Mr. Hugh Clarkson
1934
5.9
Thirty Day Princess
as King Anatol XII
1934
6.8
All Men Are Enemies
1934
0.0
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Frensham
1934
7.0
Man of Two Worlds
as Sir Basil Pemberton
1934
6.0
If I Were Free
as Hector Stribling
1933
5.0
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
1933
6.8
My Lips Betray
as De Conti
1933
0.0
Blind Adventure
as Major Thorne
1933
5.5
Double Harness
as Colonel Sam Colby
1933
6.7
Tomorrow at Seven
as Thornton Drake
1933
6.0
The Animal Kingdom
as Rufus Collier
1932
5.6
Cynara
as John Tring
1932
4.8
A Bill of Divorcement
as Doctor Alliot
1932
6.2
Guilty as Hell
as Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
1932
5.8
Red-Headed Woman
as Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
1932
6.7
Wild, Wild Susan
as Peter Van Dusen
1925
0.0
Men and Women
as Arnold Kirke
1925
0.0
A Society Exile
as Sir Howard Furnival
1919
0.0