Henry Travers

About

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.

Known for

It's a Wonderful LifeMovie • 1946The Invisible ManMovie • 1933Shadow of a DoubtMovie • 1943Mrs. MiniverMovie • 1942Ball of FireMovie • 1941The YearlingMovie • 1946Dodge CityMovie • 1939High SierraMovie • 1941The Rains CameMovie • 1939Dark VictoryMovie • 1939The Bells of St. Mary'sMovie • 1945Random HarvestMovie • 1942Edison, the ManMovie • 1940Death Takes a HolidayMovie • 1934The AccusedMovie • 1949Born to Be BadMovie • 1934On Borrowed TimeMovie • 1939Stanley and LivingstoneMovie • 1939Madame CurieMovie • 1943Primrose PathMovie • 1940None Shall EscapeMovie • 1944You Can't Get Away with MurderMovie • 1939The Naughty NinetiesMovie • 1945