Henry Travers
Birthday: 1874-03-05 | Place of Birth: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, EnglandBritish-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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Dr. Mitchell
as Clarence
as Mr. Boyles
as Capt. Sam Jackson
as Hobart Glenn
as Horace P. Bogardus
as Father Warecki
as Pop Wheeler
as Third Cousin
as Eugene Curie
as Joseph Newton
as Dr. Sims
as Mr. Ballard
as Percival Wellsby
as Abel Martin
as Mr. Hardy
as Mr. Miller
as Pa
as Prof. Jerome
as Ben Els
as Sheriff
as Dr. Evans
as Dr. Irving
as Dr. Parsons
as John Kingsley
as Judge Milliken
as Ned Elliott
as Lem Peters
as Mr. Halevy
as Tom Reynolds
