Henry Travers (Actor)

Reviews of Henry Travers Movies

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Movies starring Henry Travers have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.

It's a Wonderful Life - released in 1946 - is Henry Travers's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 740 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Henry Travers is Born to Be Bad - released in 1934 - with a score of 48% based on 10 reviews.

Actor 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.

Henry Travers has acted in films with Charles Lane, Ian Wolfe, Miles Mander and Rhys Williams.

Henry Travers has worked with these film directors: Clarence Brown, Mervyn LeRoy, Harold S. Bucquet and Alfred Hitchcock.