Henry Travers
Actor
Born March 4, 1874 in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, 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.
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
The Girl from Jones Beach
Judge Bullfinch
The Accused
Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Beyond Glory
Pop Dewing
The Flame
Dr. Mitchell
It's a Wonderful Life
Clarence
The Yearling
Mr. Boyles
Gallant Journey
Thomas Logan
The Bells of St. Mary's
Horace P. Bogardus
The Naughty Nineties
Capt. Sam Jackson
Thrill of a Romance
Hobart Glenn
The Very Thought of You
Pop Wheeler
Dragon Seed
Third Cousin
None Shall Escape
Father Warecki
Madame Curie
Eugene Curie
The Moon Is Down
Mayor Orden
Shadow of a Doubt
Joseph Newton
Random Harvest
Dr. Sims
Pierre of the Plains
Percival Wellsby
Mrs. Miniver
Mr. Ballard
Ball of Fire
Prof. Jerome
I'll Wait for You
Mr. Miller
The Bad Man
Mr. Hardy
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Abel Martin
High Sierra
Pa
Wyoming
Sheriff
Anne of Windy Poplars
Matey
Edison, the Man
Ben Els
Primrose Path
Gramp
Remember?
Judge Milliken
The Rains Came
Rev. Homer Smiley
Stanley and Livingstone
John Kingsley
On Borrowed Time
Dr. Evans
Dark Victory
Dr. Parsons
Dodge City
Dr. Irving
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Pop
The Sisters
Ned Elliott
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Lem Peters
Pursuit
Tom Reynolds
Escapade
Concierge
Four Hours to Kill!
Mac Mason
Captain Hurricane
Capt. Ben
After Office Hours
Cap
Maybe It's Love
Mr. Halevy
Ready for Love
Judge Pickett
The Party's Over
Theodore
Born to Be Bad
Fuzzy
Death Takes a Holiday
Baron Cesarea
The Invisible Man
Dr. Cranley
My Weakness
Ellery Gregory
Another Language
Pop Hallam
Reunion in Vienna
Father Krug