New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ACTOR

Henry Travers

1874 - 1965

Photo of Henry Travers

Icon of person Henry Travers

Travers John Heagerty (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965), known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Travers has received more than 1,223,239 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Henry Travers is the 3,899th most popular actor (down from 3,179th in 2019), the 3,178th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,778th in 2019) and the 480th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Henry Travers by language


Among ACTORS

Among actors, Henry Travers ranks 3,899 out of 9,996Before him are Robert Preston, Laverne Cox, Jeff Conaway, Frankie Avalon, Inna Makarova, and R. G. Armstrong. After him are Sylvester Groth, Viviane Romance, Nehemiah Persoff, O. E. Hasse, Halit Akçatepe, and Akira Terao.

Most Popular Actors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Henry Travers ranks 148Before him are Charles William Miller, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Steve Bloomer, Dmitry Gulia, Abbas Sahhat, and Frank Elmore Ross. After him are Honus Wagner, J. C. Leyendecker, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Theodore Lyman IV, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Ernst Streeruwitz. Among people deceased in 1965, Henry Travers ranks 128Before him are Konstantin Muraviev, Amílcar Barbuy, Mae Murray, Erik Abrahamsson, E. E. Smith, and Marion Jones Farquhar. After him are Margaret Dumont, Alan Freed, Kōsaku Yamada, Tommy Hampson, Nancy Carroll, and Ingrid Jonker.

Others Born in 1874

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1965

Go to all Rankings

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Travers ranks 3,178 out of 7,765Before him are Estelle Winwood (1883), Michael Wilding (1912), Tommy Douglas (1904), William Etty (1787), David Gregory (1659), and Doreen Massey (1944). After him are Barry Flanagan (1941), Edward Blore (1787), Gary Numan (1958), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Thomas Middleton (1580), and Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Henry Travers ranks 480Before him are Lily James (1989), Clive Swift (1936), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Billie Whitelaw (1932), Estelle Winwood (1883), and Michael Wilding (1912). After him are James Nesbitt (1965), Sienna Guillory (1975), Bob Anderson (1922), John Callen (1946), Tobias Menzies (1974), and Charlie Cox (1982).

Television and Movie Roles