Henry Travers
Henry Travers
A stage actor in the British Isles from 1894, Henry Travers settled permanently in America in 1901. Even as a comparative youngster, the pudding-faced, wispy-voiced Travers specialized in portraying befuddled old men. He was brought to Hollywood in 1933 to recreate his stage role as Father Krug in Robert E. Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna. Though often cast in amiable, self-effacing roles, Travers was perfectly capable of meatier stuff: as a downtrodden Chinese farmer in Dragon Seed (1944), he delivers a terse monologue describing how he has regained his self respect by beating his shrewish wife! Travers' best-remembered movie assignments included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of British postman Mr. Ballard in Mrs. Miniver (1942); his amusing turn as bank clerk and mystery-magazine fanatic Joseph Newton in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943); and, of course, his matchless performance as wingless guardian angel Clarence Oddbody in the Yuletide perennial It's a Wonderful Life (1946). After several years in retirement, Henry Travers died of arteriosclerosis at the age of 91. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Henry Travers:
- Random Harvest with Ronald Colman , Greer Garson , Susan Peters , Edmund Gwenn , Reginald Owen , Bramwell Fletcher , Rhys Williams , Una O'Connor , Melville Cooper , Margaret Wycherly , Alan Napier , Norma Varden , Henry Daniell , Elizabeth Risdon , Sam Harris , Terence Kilburn , Peter Lawford , Kay Medford , C. Montague Shaw , Arthur Shields , Arthur Space , Ian Wolfe
- It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart , Donna Reed , Lionel Barrymore , Thomas Mitchell , Beulah Bondi , Ward Bond , Gloria Grahame , Frank Faylen , Frank S. Hagney , Sheldon Leonard , Larry Simms , H.B. Warner , Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer , Stanley Andrews , Ellen Corby , Dick Elliott , John Farrell MacDonald , Bert Moorhouse
- Mrs. Miniver with Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon , Teresa Wright , May Whitty , Reginald Owen , Henry Wilcoxon , Tom Conway , Billy Bevan , Helmut Dantine , Colin Kenny , Peter Lawford , Ottola Nesmith , Gil Perkins , Paul Scardon , David Thursby , Rhys Williams , Ian Wolfe , Mary Field , Henry King , Arthur Wimperis
- Madame Curie with Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon , Robert Walker , Albert Basserman , Van Johnson , Margaret O'Brien , C. Aubrey Smith , May Whitty , Reginald Owen , Teddy Infur , James Sr. Kirkwood , Gene Lockhart , George Meader , Alan Napier , Arthur Shields , Wyndham Standing , Ray Teal , Ray Collins
- High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart , Ida Lupino , Arthur Kennedy , Joan Leslie , Alan Curtis , Jerome Cowan , Barton MacLane , Elizabeth Risdon , Cornel Wilde , Paul Harvey , Isabel Jewell , Willie Best , Robert Strange , Davison Clark , James Flavin , William Hopper , Ralph Sanford , Cliff Saum , Charlotte Wynters
- Dodge City with Errol Flynn , Olivia DeHavilland , Ann Sheridan , Bruce Cabot , Frank McHugh , Alan Sr. Hale , John Litel , Henry O'Neill , Victor Jory , William Lundigan , Douglas Fowley , Ward Bond , Monte Blue , Fred Graham , Thurston Hall , Pat O'Malley , Ralph Sanford , Guinn "Big Boy" Williams , George Guhl
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