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Henry Travers
Known for: ActingBritish-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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as Clarence 
Nähtamatu mees
as Dr. Cranley 
Shadow of a Doubt
as Joseph Newton 
The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles 
Primrose Path
as Gramp 
Mrs. Miniver
as Mr. Ballard 
High Sierra
as Pa 
Ball of Fire
as Prof. Jerome 
Dark Victory
as Dr. Parsons 
Dodge City
as Dr. Irving 
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus 
Edison, the Man
as Ben Els 
Random Harvest
as Dr. Sims 
The Girl from Jones Beach
as Judge Bullfinch 
Madame Curie
as Eugene Curie 
Death Takes a Holiday
as Baron Cesarea 
On Borrowed Time
as Dr. Evans 
The Naughty Nineties
as Capt. Sam Jackson 
The Rains Came
as Rev. Homer Smiley 
Dragon Seed
as Third Cousin 
The Flame
as Dr. Mitchell 
The Sisters
as Ned Elliott 
Born to Be Bad
as Fuzzy 
I'll Wait for You
as Mr. Miller