Trivia

Fondly remembered as Clarence, James Stewart's guardian angel ("angel second class"), in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Holly Terrace entrance, Hall of Inspiration, directly across from W.C. Fields.

Appears in seven Oscar Best Picture nominees: Dark Victory (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), The Yearling (1946) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), with Mrs. Miniver being the only winner.

He has appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Invisible Man (1933), Ball of Fire (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Henry Travers' two cousins on his mother's side of the family, Thomas H. Hornibrook and his son Samuel W. Hornibrook, were killed by the Irish Republican Army on April 27, 1922, in County Cork, Ireland, during an anti-Protestant campaign to punish suspected informers. There was no evidence the two men were informers. Their bodies were never recovered.

Active on Broadway from 1901-1938 (early in his career credited as Travers Heagerty, his birth name).

Of Irish extraction.

Educated at Berwick on Tweed Grammar School in Northern England where he got involved in amateur dramatics.

Cousin of Rob Wagner, silent film director, screenwriter and editor and publisher of Rob Wagner's Script, a Hollywood literary magazine.

There seems to be some confusion as to where Henry was born as some references state he was born in Northern Ireland while others state Berwick on Tweed in North Western England which is where he was certainly brought up from the late 1880's and educated at the grammar school there and where he was involved in amateur dramatics. He went to America in 1901 and started in films in 1932. He was Oscar nominated for his role in Mrs Miniver but is probably best recognised as being the angel Clarence in the film It's a Wonderful Life.