Henry Travers was an English character actor. His most famous role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Travers specialized in portraying slightly bumbling but friendly and lovable old men. He died as a result of arteriosclerosis in 1965, at the age of 91.
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Henry Travers was an English character actor. His most famous role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film classic It’s a Wonderful Life. He also received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Mrs. Miniver. Travers specialized in portraying slightly bumbling but friendly and lovable old men. He was born in Prudhoe, Northumberland, and was the son of Daniel Heagerty, a doctor originally from Ireland, and Ellen Gillman Hornibrook Belcher.
He is buried with his second wife, actress Amy Forrest-Rhodes, in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. He died as a result of arteriosclerosis in 1965, at the age of 91, and is buried alongside his first wife, Amy Forrest Jones, who he married in 1931, and their daughter, Mary Sophia Maude Travers, who was also an actor.
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