Henry Travers
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.
Filmography · 52
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Clarence
The Invisible Man
1933 · Dr. Cranley
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Joseph Newton
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · Mr. Ballard
Dodge City
1939 · Dr. Irving
Random Harvest
1942 · Dr. Sims
Ball of Fire
1941 · Prof. Jerome
High Sierra
1941 · Pa
The Flame
1947 · Dr. Mitchell
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · John Kingsley
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · Horace P. Bogardus
The Yearling
1946 · Mr. Boyles
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Madame Curie
1943 · Eugene Curie
Captain Hurricane
1935 · Capt. Ben
The Naughty Nineties
1945 · Capt. Sam Jackson
The Rains Came
1939 · Rev. Homer Smiley
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935 · Lem Peters
Dark Victory
1939 · Dr. Parsons
Edison, the Man
1940 · Ben Els
Dragon Seed
1944 · Third Cousin
I'll Wait for You
1941 · Mr. Miller
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 · Pop
On Borrowed Time
1939 · Dr. Evans
The Accused
1949 · Blakely - Romley's Ass...
Thrill of a Romance
1945 · Hobart Glenn
Death Takes a Holiday
1934 · Baron Cesarea
Primrose Path
1940 · Gramp
Gallant Journey
1946 · Thomas Logan
The Girl from Jones Beach
1949 · Judge Bullfinch
Reunion in Vienna
1933 · Father Krug
Remember?
1939 · Judge Milliken
Anne of Windy Poplars
1940 · Matey
After Office Hours
1935 · Cap
The Moon Is Down
1943 · Mayor Orden
Beyond Glory
1948 · Pop Dewing
Wyoming
1940 · Sheriff
The Very Thought of You
1944 · Pop Wheeler
Pursuit
1935 · Tom Reynolds
The Sisters
1938 · Ned Elliott
Ready for Love
1934 · Judge Pickett
Born to Be Bad
1934 · Fuzzy
Pierre of the Plains
1942 · Percival Wellsby
Maybe It's Love
1935 · Mr. Halevy
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941 · Abel Martin
Another Language
1933 · Pop Hallam
My Weakness
1933 · Ellery Gregory
The Bad Man
1941 · Mr. Hardy
None Shall Escape
1944 · Father Warecki
Escapade
1935 · Concierge
The Party's Over
1934 · Theodore
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Mac Mason