Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/4/1874
Place of Birth
Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, UK
Also Known As
Travers John HegartyГенри ТраверсГенри Треверс
Henry Travers
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 i...
Known For
It's a Wonderful Life
as Clarence
Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard
Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie
Another Language
as Pop Hallam
The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus
Dodge City
as Dr. Irving
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Abel Martin
Dragon Seed
as Third Cousin
Beyond Glory
as Pop Dewing
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Stanley and Livingstone
as John Kingsley
Thrill of a Romance
as Hobart Glenn
The Accused
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
None Shall Escape
as Father Warecki
The Rains Came
as Rev. Homer Smiley
Gallant Journey
as Thomas Logan
Wyoming
as Sheriff
The Moon Is Down
as Mayor Orden
The Flame
as Dr. Mitchell