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
Film 1943
Horace P. Bogardus
Film 1945
Mr. Ballard
Film 1942
Eugene Curie
Film 1943
Dr. Mitchell
Film 1947
Father Warecki
Film 1944
Gramp
Film 1940
Mr. Boyles
Film 1946
Fuzzy
Film 1934
Pop Hallam
Film 1933
Mac Mason
Film 1935
Mayor Orden
Film 1943
Matey
Film 1940
Tom Reynolds
Film 1935
Concierge
Film 1935
Wilkins
Film 1936
Father Krug
Film 1933
Lem Peters
Film 1935
Abel Martin
Film 1941
Mr. Miller
Film 1941
Pop Wheeler
Film 1944
Ellery Gregory
Film 1933
John Kingsley
Film 1939
Rev. Homer Smiley
Film 1939
Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)
Film 1949
Sheriff
Film 1940
Judge Pickett
Film 1934
Cap
Film 1935
Pop Dewing
Film 1948
Judge Bullfinch
Film 1949
Baron Cesarea
Film 1934
Percival Wellsby
Film 1942
Capt. Ben
Film 1935
Pop
Film 1939
Theodore
Film 1934
Self (archive footage)
Film 1988
Joseph Newton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tv 1955