Henry Stephenson
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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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Filme (88)
Challenge to Lassie
1949 · Sir Charles Loring
Enchantment
1948 · General Fitzgerald
Julia Misbehaves
1948 · Lord Pennystone
Oliver Twist
1948 · Mr. Brownlow
Song of Love
1947 · King Albert
Ivy
1947 · Judge
Dark Delusion
1947 · Evans Biddle
The Homestretch
1947 · Don Humberto Balcares
Time Out of Mind
1947 · Wellington Drake
The Locket
1946 · Lord Wyndham
The Return of Monte Cristo
1946 · Professor Duval
Her Sister's Secret
1946 · Mr. DuBois
Of Human Bondage
1946 · Dr. Tyrell
The Green Years
1946 · Blakely
Night and Day
1946 · Omar Cole
Heartbeat
1946 · Minister
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945 · Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
Reckless Age
1944 · J. H. Wadsworth
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944 · Sir Reginald Meade
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944 · John Dyckman Brown I
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944 · Gen. Hetherton
Mr. Lucky
1943 · Mr. Bryant
The Mantrap
1943 · Sir Humphrey Quilp
Half Way to Shanghai
1942 · Col. Algernon Blimpton
This Above All
1942 · General Cathaway
Rings on Her Fingers
1942 · Colonel Prentiss
Lady from Louisiana
1941 · General Anatole Mirbeau
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941 · Frederick Collins
Down Argentine Way
1940 · Don Diego Quintana
Spring Parade
1940 · Emperor Franz Joseph
It's a Date
1940 · Capt. Andrew
Little Old New York
1940 · Robert R. Livingston
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · Lord Burghley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 · Sir Ronald Ramsgate
Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939 · Sir Thomas Lancing
Dramatic School
1938 · Pasquel Sr.
Suez
1938 · Count Mathieu de Lesseps
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Count de Mercey
The Young in Heart
1938 · Felix Anstruther
The Baroness and the Butler
1938 · Count Albert Sandor
Wise Girl
1937 · Mr. Fletcher
Conquest
1937 · Count Anastas Walewski
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937 · Prince Johann
The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · Duke of Norfolk
When You're in Love
1937 · Walter Mitchell
Beloved Enemy
1936 · Lord Athleigh
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936 · Sir Charles Macefield
Give Me Your Heart
1936 · Edward, Lord Farrington
Walking on Air
1936 · Mr. Horace Bennett
Hearts Divided
1936 · Charles Patterson
Half Angel
1936 · Professor Jerome Hargraves
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 · Havisham
Captain Blood
1935 · Lord Willoughby
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Joseph Banks
The Perfect Gentleman
1935 · Bishop
Rendezvous
1935 · Russian Ambassador Gregory
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935 · Maj. Winslow
The Flame Within
1935 · Dr. Jock Frazier
Reckless
1935 · Colonel Harrison Sr.
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935 · Barney Newmark
The Night Is Young
1935 · Emperor Franz Josef
What Every Woman Knows
1934 · Charles Venables
Outcast Lady
1934 · Sir Maurice
The Richest Girl in the World
1934 · John Connors
She Loves Me Not
1934 · Dean Mercer
One More River
1934 · Sir Laurence Mont
Stingaree
1934 · Mr. Hugh Clarkson
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · King Anatol XII
All Men Are Enemies
1934 · Scrope
The Mystery of Mr. X
1934 · Sir Herbert Frensham
Man of Two Worlds
1934 · Sir Basil Pemberton
If I Were Free
1933 · Hector Stribling
Little Women
1933 · Mr. Laurence
My Lips Betray
1933 · De Conti
Blind Adventure
1933 · Major Thorne
Double Harness
1933 · Colonel Sam Colby
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Thornton Drake
The Animal Kingdom
1932 · Rufus
Cynara
1932 · John Tring
A Bill of Divorcement
1932 · Doctor Alliot
Guilty as Hell
1932 · Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
Red-Headed Woman
1932 · Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
Wild, Wild Susan
1925 · Peter Van Dusen
Men and Women
1925 · Arnold Kirke
The Black Panther's Cub
1921 · Clive, Earl of Maudsley
The Tower of Jewels
1919 · David Parrish
A Society Exile
1919 · Sir Howard Furnival
The Spreading Dawn
1917 · Mr. LeRoy
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