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Henry Travers (1874-1965) was an Oscar®-nominated English actor. Travers earned an Academy Award® nomination for his role in 1942’s Mrs. Miniver. His most famous role was as the somewhat befuddled but kind-hearted guardian angel Clarence Odbody in 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life. His IMDb page shows 52 acting credits from 1933 to 1949. This page will rank Henry Travers movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition. Some of his movies that do not appear to have been in North American theaters were not included. FYI – this is one of the few times that ever single IMDB credit is listed in our rankings.
Henry Travers Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Henry Travers Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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I once had a strange record album (actually 8 of the 16 issued) where you would act against a movie star. One of these albums was The Girl from Jones Beach (Henry’s last film) and Virginia Mayo would read her lines as in the movie, and you would do Ronald Reagan’s lines. You could record these and see how you acted.
After Stanley Tucci’s big lists, Mr. Travers who passed 72 years ago doesn’t have much of a shot. He was never on the Oracle of Bacon list. These are the actors on the 2020 list he has appeared with.
68 JOHN CARRADINE The Invisible Man (1933)
207 JEFF COREY The Flame (1947)
207 JEFF COREY The Moon Is Down (1943)
290 GREGORY PECK The Yearling (1946)
377 GLENN FORD Gallant Journey (1946)
413 JOSEPH COTTEN Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF Dragon Seed (1944)
512 RAY MILLAND Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
626 BEN JOHNSON The Naughty Nineties (1945)
633 ALEXANDER KNOX None Shall Escape (1944)
667 PETER LAWFORD Mrs. Miniver (1942)
784 BETTE DAVIS Dark Victory (1939)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Sisters (1938)
837 BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Flame (1947)
907 WALTER PIDGEON Madame Curie (1943)
907 WALTER PIDGEON Mrs. Miniver (1942)
974 EDMOND O’BRIEN A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Henry actually appeared with 37 Oscar winners!!
BEN JOHNSON The Naughty Nineties (1945)
BETTE DAVIS Dark Victory (1939)
BETTE DAVIS The Sisters (1938)
BING CROSBY The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Flame (1947)
CHARLES COBURN Edison, the Man (1940)
CHARLES COBURN Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
CLARK GABLE After Office Hours (1935)
DONALD CRISP THE SISTERS (1938)
DONNA REED Beyond Glory (1948)
DONNA REED It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
EDMOND O’BRIEN A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
FREDRIC MARCH Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
GARY COOPER Ball of Fire (1941)
GINGER ROGERS Primrose Path (1940)
GLORIA GRAHAME It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
GREER GARSON Madame Curie (1943)
GREER GARSON Mrs. Miniver (1942)
GREER GARSON Random Harvest (1942)
GREER GARSON Remember? (1939)
GREGORY PECK The Yearling (1946)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THE FLAME (1947)
HELEN HAYES Another Language (1933)
HUMPHREY BOGART Dark Victory (1939)
HUMPHREY BOGART High Sierra (1941)
HUMPHREY BOGART You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939)
INGRID BERGMAN The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
JAMES STEWART It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
JANE DARWELL The Rains Came (1939)
JANE WYMAN The Yearling (1946)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT THE RAINS CAME (1939)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Dragon Seed (1944)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Dragon Seed (1944)
LIONEL BARRYMORE It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
LIONEL BARRYMORE On Borrowed Time (1939)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Bad Man (1941)
LORETTA YOUNG Born to Be Bad (1934)
LORETTA YOUNG The Accused (1949)
LUISE RAINER Escapade (1935)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Dodge City (1939)
RAY MILLAND Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
RONALD COLMAN Random Harvest (1942)
SPENCER TRACY Edison, the Man (1940)
SPENCER TRACY Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
SUSAN HAYWARD The Sisters (1938)
TERESA WRIGHT Mrs. Miniver (1942)
TERESA WRIGHT Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
THOMAS MITCHELL IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
WALLACE BEERY The Bad Man (1941)
WALLACE BEERY Wyoming (1940)
WALTER BRENNAN Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
WALTER BRENNAN The Invisible Man (1933)
WALTER HUSTON Dragon Seed (1944)
Hey Dan. Very interesting about the record and acted along with it. I bet those would be some good collectibles today. Do you still have them…and more importantly how did you do with your acting? Yes after the massive Stanley Tucci page….this is like an infant page…..but it still offers up some solid information. 37 Oscar winners in 52 movies is a very good percentage…especially compared to the recent Danny Trejo stats…15 Oscar winners in 400 plus movies. As for most frequent Oracle co-star….a three way time…with two thespians that have UMR pages…Bette Davis and Walter Pidgeon. Good stuff as always.
I bought those in some record store in Chicago back in 1978 or 1979. I just played with them, tape recording , had no aspirations of acting. I eventually got rid of them. I remember another was Vincent Price.
I looked those records up. They were called co star records. There were 15 albums in full, all on Roulette Records. The actors were Jimmie Rodgers, Pearl Bailey, Vincent Price, Virginia Mayo, Cesar Romero, Tallulah Bankhead, Basil Rathbone, Arlene Dahl, Paulette Goddard, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, June Havoc, George Raft, Fernando Lamas and Don Ameche. That’s 14, I can’t make out the name of the actor on the 15th album.
I have seen 25 Henry Travers movies, including the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Mrs. Miniver.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Stanley and Livingstone.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is You Ca’t Get Away With Murder.
Favourite Henry Travers Movies:
Mrs. Miniver
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Random Harvest
Madame Curie
Ball of Fire
Dark Victory
Dodge City
The Rains Came
Shadow of a Doubt
High Sierra
The Invisible Man
The Naughty Nineties – contains full length “Who’s on First?” routine
The Sisters
After Office Hours
Other Henry Travers Movies:
The Yearling
Dragon Seed
The Very Thought of You
Edison, the Man
A Girl, a Guy and a Gob
The Girl from Jones Beach
None Shall Escape
On Borrowed Time
Remember?
You Can’t Get Away With Murder
Hey Flora….thanks as always for the feedback. Tally count: Flora with the win with 25 seen….that tops the combined total of me and Bob….which sits at 20. I have seen 10 of our favorites and 1 of your “other” movies. Wow…a Gregory Peck box office sensation not on your favorites list. Not thinking that happens too often. Good stuff as always.
Since Henry’s movies were largely “before my time” I have seen only 8 of them mostly via TV repeats. The Work Horse naturally highlights Clarence and I suppose that if you HAVE seen that one you saw Henry at his best even though as WH reveals in his own lead-in Henry’s Oscar nomination was for Mrs Miniver.
Certainly it was no contest for me because I had no interest in Miniver [even though Greer herself had large ancestral connections with Ireland including areas near where I was born!] whereas I loved It’s a Wonderful Life and 2 Christmases ago I took my grandson to see it at a special showing in a local prestigious technical college. That was my umpteenth viewing of it and undoubtedly it is still a perennial Xmas fave.
However there are some cynics who have started to express reservations about its ethics which they interpret as supporting “Privilege”: any sympathetic do-gooder character played by a big Hollywood film star is to be deemed so ‘special’ that he is entitled to have an angel come down to look after his interests when things go wrong whereas the rest of us have to make the best of life’s difficulties.
And would The Duke have been critical of Jimmy’s George Bailey charging about in the snow crying and whining about his difficulties?: remember Big John savaged Cooper for snivelling and weeping in High Noon when he thought he was going to die. Jimmy did though seem to like a good cry on screen because he was at it again at the end of 1953’s western The Naked Spur when Janet Leigh tells him that despite his shortcomings she will unquestionably be his and go with him wherever he wants. The tears were never far from Jimmy’s eyes in 1965’s Shenandoah either.
Whatever one thinks of those kinds of negative attitudes to actions on screen there is no doubt that Travers was a fine character actor because in less-skilful hands Clarence could have been made to look like some over-the-top figure of fun. So “Voted UP!”
Hey Bob…thanks for checking out our Henry Travers page. Tally count: Flora with 25, me at 12 and you at 8. Not thinking many people even remember his Oscar nominated performance in Mrs. Miniver…his Clarence is easily what he is remembered for. Interesting points on Stewart and on screen crying. As for High Noon….many people did not like how that movie played out…..but some of there responses came in the form of great westerns like Rio Bravo. Good stuff as always.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike.