Henry Travers
Birthday: 1874-03-04
Place of Birth: Prudhoe, Northumberland, Englang, UK
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.
Movies
It's a Wonderful Life
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...
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The Invisible Man
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to...
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Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie ...
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Random Harvest
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star ...
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He ...
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The Naughty Nineties
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act...
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High Sierra
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort....
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Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf...
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Dark Victory
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few...
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Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...
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Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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The Flame
George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family in...
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None Shall Escape
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed ...
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Dodge City
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r...
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Primrose Path
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, he...
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The Yearling
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misb...
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Born to Be Bad
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and de...
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Another Language
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages....
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Four Hours to Kill!
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends t...
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Dragon Seed
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Ch...
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The Moon Is Down
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a J...
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vi...
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Pursuit
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of Cali...
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Escapade
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the tur...
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Too Many Parents
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother par...
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Reunion in Vienna
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now w...
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Maybe It's Love
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate ...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
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The Very Thought of You
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, ...
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Remember?
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jef...
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Thrill of a Romance
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business mee...
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On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are...
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My Weakness
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fas...
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Stanley and Livingstone
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, ...
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The Rains Came
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor ...
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Gallant Journey
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The Accused
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense....
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Wyoming
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Ready for Love
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. ...
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After Office Hours
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder....
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Beyond Glory
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky vi...
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The Girl from Jones Beach
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Rando...
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The Sisters
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marr...
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The Bad Man
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia ...
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Death Takes a Holiday
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the...
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Pierre of the Plains
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper....
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Captain Hurricane
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brews...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen ...
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The Party's Over
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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