Henry Travers

For me, Henry Travers is forever Clarence the guardian angel in It's a Wonderful Life, and that one role says everything about why he mattered. He spent a long career playing the bumbling, warm, slightly fussy older man, and he did it so convincingly that audiences trusted him instantly. There's a craft in being that reliably likeable on screen, and as an English stage-trained character actor he brought a theatrical precision to it. I find it fitting that his most enduring work came late in life, in a film that itself became immortal. He's the kind of supporting player who quietly anchors a whole movie.

Name (English)

Henry Travers

Name (Japanese)

ヘンリー・トラヴァース

Reading

へんりー・とらゔぁーす

Born

March 5, 1874 – October 18, 1965

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom

Height

164 cm

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9

Tags

• film actor
• stage actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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