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
Random Harvest
as Dr. Sims
Dragon Seed
as Third Cousin
Remember?
as Judge Milliken
Dodge City
as Dr. Irving
Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie
The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles
Pursuit
as Tom Reynolds
Beyond Glory
as Pop Dewing
Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard
Escapade
as Concierge
Wyoming
as Sheriff
Shadow of a Doubt
as Joseph Newton
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus
My Weakness
as Ellery Gregory
The Invisible Man
as Dr. Cranley
The Sisters
as Ned Elliott
The Flame
as Dr. Mitchell
Death Takes a Holiday
as Baron Cesarea
Captain Hurricane
as Capt. Ben