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Henry Travers

1874 - 1965

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Travers John Heagerty (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965), known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable older men. His best known role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He also received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Travers is the 3,637th most popular actor (up from 3,905th in 2019), the 3,206th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,117th in 2019) and the 443rd most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Henry Travers ranks 3,637 out of 13,578. Before him are Minoru Chiaki, Jennifer Carpenter, Ann Rutherford, Dominic West, Stanley Baker, and Jacques Lecoq. After him are Sylvia Chang, Jarl Kulle, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Úrsula Corberó, Lew Ayres, and James Arness.

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Among people born in 1874, Henry Travers ranks 157. Before him are J. C. Leyendecker, Oskari Mantere, James H. Johnson, Manuel Díaz, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, and Charles W. Gilmore. After him are Fejzi Alizoti, Nasrullah Khan, Iraj Mirza, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Billy Meredith, and Juan Bautista Sacasa. Among people deceased in 1965, Henry Travers ranks 126. Before him are Amílcar Barbuy, Louise Dresser, Judy Holliday, Giorgio Zampori, Alejandro Casona, and Emma Asson. After him are Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, Joseph Grew, Frol Kozlov, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Daniel-Rops, and Teodor Koskenniemi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Travers ranks 3,207 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Braddock (1695), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), Stanley Baker (1928), Harry Styles (1994), and Andrew Scott Waugh (1810). After him are Ronald Neame (1911), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Philip Catherine (1942), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Simon McBurney (1957), and Spencer Gore (1850).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Henry Travers ranks 443. Before him are Anthony Andrews (1948), Gary Lewis (1957), David Mitchell (1974), Teresa Ann Savoy (1955), Dominic West (1969), and Stanley Baker (1928). After him are Simon McBurney (1957), Reginald Owen (1887), Mark Sheppard (1964), Donald Sumpter (1943), May Whitty (1865), and Ioan Gruffudd (1973).

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