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Henry Stephenson

Ur. 15 kwietnia 1871Zm. 24 kwietnia 1956Granada, British West Indies

Biografia

From Wikipedia Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role. In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938). Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior. He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage. He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter. Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.

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Filmografia

Filmy i seriale od najnowszych

88 pozycji

Wyzwanie dla Lassie

Film • 1949

jako Sir Charles Loring

Enchantment

Film • 1948

jako General Fitzgerald

Julia Misbehaves

Film • 1948

jako Lord Pennystone

Oliver Twist

Film • 1948

jako Mr. Brownlow

Song of Love

Film • 1947

jako King Albert

Ivy

Film • 1947

jako Judge

Dark Delusion

Film • 1947

jako Evans Biddle

The Homestretch

Film • 1947

jako Don Humberto Balcares

Time Out of Mind

Film • 1947

jako Wellington Drake

The Locket

Film • 1946

jako Lord Wyndham

The Return of Monte Cristo

Film • 1946

jako Professor Duval

Her Sister's Secret

Film • 1946

jako Mr. DuBois

Of Human Bondage

Film • 1946

jako Dr. Tyrell

The Green Years

Film • 1946

jako Blakely

Night and Day

Film • 1946

jako Omar Cole

Heartbeat

Film • 1946

jako Minister

Tarzan i Amazonki

Film • 1945

jako Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist

Reckless Age

Film • 1944

jako J. H. Wadsworth

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Film • 1944

jako Sir Reginald Meade

Two Girls and a Sailor

Film • 1944

jako John Dyckman Brown I

The Hour Before the Dawn

Film • 1944

jako Gen. Hetherton

Mr. Lucky

Film • 1943

jako Mr. Bryant

The Mantrap

Film • 1943

jako Sir Humphrey Quilp

Half Way to Shanghai

Film • 1942

jako Col. Algernon Blimpton

This Above All

Film • 1942

jako General Cathaway

Rings on Her Fingers

Film • 1942

jako Colonel Prentiss

Lady from Louisiana

Film • 1941

jako General Anatole Mirbeau

The Man Who Lost Himself

Film • 1941

jako Frederick Collins

Down Argentine Way

Film • 1940

jako Don Diego Quintana

Spring Parade

Film • 1940

jako Emperor Franz Joseph

It's a Date

Film • 1940

jako Capt. Andrew

Little Old New York

Film • 1940

jako Robert R. Livingston

Prywatne życie Elżbiety i Essexa

Film • 1939

jako Lord Burghley

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Film • 1939

jako Sir Ronald Ramsgate

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Film • 1939

jako Sir Thomas Lancing

Dramatic School

Film • 1938

jako Pasquel Sr.

Suez

Film • 1938

jako Count Mathieu de Lesseps

Marie Antoinette

Film • 1938

jako Count de Mercey

The Young in Heart

Film • 1938

jako Felix Anstruther

The Baroness and the Butler

Film • 1938

jako Count Albert Sandor

Wise Girl

Film • 1937

jako Mr. Fletcher

Pani Walewska

Film • 1937

jako Count Anastas Walewski

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Film • 1937

jako Prince Johann

The Prince and the Pauper

Film • 1937

jako Duke of Norfolk

When You're in Love

Film • 1937

jako Walter Mitchell

Beloved Enemy

Film • 1936

jako Lord Athleigh

Szarża lekkiej brygady

Film • 1936

jako Sir Charles Macefield

Give Me Your Heart

Film • 1936

jako Edward, Lord Farrington

Walking on Air

Film • 1936

jako Mr. Horace Bennett

Hearts Divided

Film • 1936

jako Charles Patterson

Half Angel

Film • 1936

jako Professor Jerome Hargraves

Młody lord Fauntleroy

Film • 1936

jako Havisham

Kapitan Blood

Film • 1935

jako Lord Willoughby

Bunt na Bounty

Film • 1935

jako Joseph Banks

The Perfect Gentleman

Film • 1935

jako Bishop

Rendezvous

Film • 1935

jako Russian Ambassador Gregory

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Film • 1935

jako Maj. Winslow

The Flame Within

Film • 1935

jako Dr. Jock Frazier

Dla ciebie tancze

Film • 1935

jako Colonel Harrison Sr.

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Film • 1935

jako Barney Newmark

The Night Is Young

Film • 1935

jako Emperor Franz Josef

What Every Woman Knows

Film • 1934

jako Charles Venables

Outcast Lady

Film • 1934

jako Sir Maurice

The Richest Girl in the World

Film • 1934

jako John Connors

She Loves Me Not

Film • 1934

jako Dean Mercer

One More River

Film • 1934

jako Sir Laurence Mont

Stingaree

Film • 1934

jako Mr. Hugh Clarkson

Thirty Day Princess

Film • 1934

jako King Anatol XII

Film • 1919

jako Sir Howard Furnival

The Spreading Dawn

Film • 1917

jako Mr. LeRoy