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 Leslies kindly but slyly observant uncle, and the generous Mr. Bogardus in The Bells of St. Marys (1945), but its as the somewhat befuddled angel Clarence Oddbody assigned to James Stewart in the classic Its 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.
Joseph Newton
Movie 1943
Horace P. Bogardus
Movie 1945
Mr. Ballard
Movie 1942
Eugene Curie
Movie 1943
Dr. Mitchell
Movie 1947
Father Warecki
Movie 1944
Gramp
Movie 1940
Mr. Boyles
Movie 1946
Fuzzy
Movie 1934
Pop Hallam
Movie 1933
Mac Mason
Movie 1935
Mayor Orden
Movie 1943
Matey
Movie 1940
Tom Reynolds
Movie 1935
Concierge
Movie 1935
Wilkins
Movie 1936
Father Krug
Movie 1933
Lem Peters
Movie 1935
Abel Martin
Movie 1941
Mr. Miller
Movie 1941
Pop Wheeler
Movie 1944
Ellery Gregory
Movie 1933
John Kingsley
Movie 1939
Rev. Homer Smiley
Movie 1939
Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Sheriff
Movie 1940
Judge Pickett
Movie 1934
Cap
Movie 1935
Pop Dewing
Movie 1948
Judge Bullfinch
Movie 1949
Baron Cesarea
Movie 1934
Percival Wellsby
Movie 1942
Capt. Ben
Movie 1935
Pop
Movie 1939
Theodore
Movie 1934
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1988
Joseph Newton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tv 1955