Henry Travers

Actor

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Also Known As

Travers Heagerty

Birth Place

Berwick-on-Tweed, England, GB

Born

March 05, 1874

Died

October 18, 1965

Biography

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A veteran of the English stage, actor Henry Travers came to Hollywood in the early 1930s and is best known as Clarence the guardian angel from Frank Capra's classic film "It's a Wonderful Life." The relaxed demeanor and bemused whimsy of Travers's angel, who hopes to earn his wings by helping a depressed and suicidal James Stewart to find the true worth of being alive, helped make the fi...

Filmography

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The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

Judge Bullfinch

Beyond Glory (1948)

The Yearling (1947)

The Flame (1947)

Gallant Journey (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Clarence [Oddbody]

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Ball Of Fire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Apple

Ball Of Fire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Two And Two Are Five

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Ann G Murphy

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Ann Rhodes Forrest

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Biography

A veteran of the English stage, actor Henry Travers came to Hollywood in the early 1930s and is best known as Clarence the guardian angel from Frank Capra's classic film "It's a Wonderful Life." The relaxed demeanor and bemused whimsy of Travers's angel, who hopes to earn his wings by helping a depressed and suicidal James Stewart to find the true worth of being alive, helped make the film a beloved holiday favorite. That approach to the role was not relegated only to Capra's film; many of Travers's performances are similar in tone, though serious drama was not outside of his reach. Some of his finest acting can be seen in the William Wyler drama "Mrs. Miniver," playing the postman Mr. Ballard, for which he received his only Oscar nomination. Travers also starred in the Errol Flynn Western "Dodge City," as Doc Irving; Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," playing Teresa Wright's mystery story-obsessed father; and the drama "The Bells of St. Mary's," as businessman Horace P. Bogardus. Travers died from artery disease at age 91.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

Judge Bullfinch

Beyond Glory (1948)

The Yearling (1947)

The Flame (1947)

Gallant Journey (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Clarence [Oddbody]

Thrill of a Romance (1945)

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Horace P. Bogardus

The Naughty Nineties (1945)

Captain Sam Jackson

Dragon Seed (1944)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Madame Curie (1944)

Dr. Eugene Curie

None Shall Escape (1944)

The Moon Is Down (1943)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Pierre of the Plains (1942)

Ball of Fire (1942)

Random Harvest (1942)

High Sierra (1941)

I'll Wait for You (1941)

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)

The Bad Man (1941)

Edison, the Man (1940)

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

The Rains Came (1939)

Reverend Homer Smiley

Dodge City (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

On Borrowed Time (1939)

Remember? (1939)

Dark Victory (1939)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

The Sisters (1938)

Too Many Parents (1936)

Four Hours to Kill! (1935)

Escapade (1935)

After Office Hours (1935)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

Adlebert Peters

Maybe It's Love (1935)

Captain Hurricane (1935)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

The Party's Over (1934)

Ready for Love (1934)

Born to Be Bad (1934)

My Weakness (1933)

Another Language (1933)

Reunion in Vienna (1933)

The Invisible Man (1933)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Out of Sight (1998)

Transportation Coordinator

The Quick and the Dead (1987)

Transportation Captain

American Graffiti (1973)

Transportation Supervisor

Life Events

Videos

Ball Of Fire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Apple Stripper Sugarpuss (Barbara Stanwyck) surprises grammar Professor Potts (Gary Cooper), ready to begin her interview right away, his colleagues, modeled on the Seven Dwarves, supporting the idea, in Howard Hawks' Ball Of Fire, 1942.

Ball Of Fire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Two And Two Are Five Allen Jenkins is the garbage man, seeking trivia help from encyclopedia-writing professors (Oscar Homolka, Aubrey Mather, Richard Haydn, S.Z. Sakall et al), Potts (Gary Cooper) committing to new research, in Howard Hawks' Ball Of Fire, 1942.

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Get Drunk In Three Days? Pacey opening, Robert Z. Leonard directing from Herman J. Mankiewicz’s screenplay, introducing Connie (Constance) Bennett as columnist Sharon, entering a New York newsroom where we meet Stuart Erwin and Henry Travers, reporting to Clark Gable as editor Branch, the year after his reporter-turn in It Happened One Night, 1934, in After Office Hours, 1935.

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Believe In Telepathy? Director Alfred Hitchcock detailing the family (on location in Santa Rosa, California), Mom, Dad, sister and brother (Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates) as restless Charlie (Teresa Wright) decides to send an unnecessary telegram, in Shadow Of A Doubt, 1943.

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Not Interested In Money Preening teen Charlie (Teresa Wright) has no idea Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is a criminal, visiting the Santa Rosa, California bank where her dad (Henry Travers) works, and he's less keen on the boss (Edwin Stanley) than a widow (Frances Carson), in Hitchcock's Shadow Of A Doubt, 1943.

Invisible Man, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Thousands Of Stomach Aches All at once providing the background of the leading man's predicament established earlier, Dr. Cranley (Henry Travers) receiving daughter Flora (Gloria Stuart), worried about "Jack", and his rival Kemp (William Harrigan) trapping her among the flowers, in James Whale's The Invisible Man, 1933.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That's Venus Kind-hearted ex-con Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) getting to know Pa (Henry Travers) and young disabled Velma (Joan Leslie), whom he met by chance during their travels west, and who know nothing of his history, in High Sierra, 1941, from a scirpt by W.R. Burnett and John Huston.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Mount Whitney East of the Sierra, pardoned convict Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), using an assumed name as he prepares for a heist, has his first encounter with the Goodhues, Pa (Henry Travers), Velma (Joan Leslie) and Ma (Elizabeth Risdon), in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Think Nothing Of It Traveling with Marie (Ida Lupino) after the almost-botched robbery, Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) visits Pa and Velma (Henry Travers, Joan Leslie), who still know nothing of his profession, though he paid for her operation, which is why she's now dancing, in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Desperado Opening sequence from Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941, introducing Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Humphrey Bogart, in his breakthrough role), from a script by W.R. Burnett and John Huston.

Dark Victory (1939) -- (Movie Clip) That Cold Scientific Eye Family Doc Parsons (Henry Travers) has maneuvered symptomatic but defiant socialite Judith (Bette Davis) into the path of brain surgeon Steele (George Brent) who, himself traumatized over a patient's death, had been departing to begin his new career in research, in Dark Victory, 1939.

Mrs. Miniver (1942) -- (Movie Clip) The Most Beautiful Rose The third scene, England, 1939, Greer Garson (title character) arrives at the fictional Kentish village of Belham after shopping in London, where the station master Ballard (Henry Travers) has a query and a tribute, a key moment in William Wyler’s wartime morale booster Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

Companions

Ann G Murphy

Wife

Ann Rhodes Forrest

Wife

Actor.

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