Actor

Henry Travers

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Movies: 53Series: 0

TMDB ID: 7666

IMDb ID: nm0871287

Known for: Acting

Born: March 4, 1874

Died: October 18, 1965

Age: 91

Place of birth: Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1933 - 1987

Years active: 55

Average TMDB rating: 6.78

Wikidata: Q960050

Also known as

Travers John Hegarty • Генри Траверс • Генри Треверс

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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 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.