
Acting
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 i…

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)

The Accused
as Blakely - Romley's Assistant (uncredited)

The Girl from Jones Beach
as Judge Bullfinch

Beyond Glory
as Pop Dewing

The Flame
as Dr. Mitchell

It's a Wonderful Life
as Clarence

The Yearling
as Mr. Boyles

Gallant Journey
as Thomas Logan

The Bells of St. Mary's
as Horace P. Bogardus

The Naughty Nineties
as Capt. Sam Jackson
Ball of Fire
1941