Henry Travers

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 04, 1874 (151 years old)
Death date
Oct 18, 1965

Henry Travers

Known For

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1h 27m
Movie 1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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.

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