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person_profile-Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Apr 16, 1871

Country of birth:

British West Indies

Died:

Apr 24, 1956

Biography of

Henry Stephenson

    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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Henry Stephenson

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Filmography of

Henry Stephenson

Found 85 Movies in total

Challenge to Lassie

Sir Charles Loring ( Actor )

... 1949

Enchantment

General Fitzgerald ( Actor )

... 1948

Julia Misbehaves

Lord Pennystone ( Actor )

... 1948

Oliver Twist

Mr. Brownlow ( Actor )

... 1948

Song of Love

King Albert ( Actor )

... 1947

Ivy

Judge ( Actor )

... 1947

Dark Delusion

Evans Biddle ( Actor )

... 1947

The Homestretch

Don Humberto Balcares ( Actor )

... 1947

Time Out of Mind

Wellington Drake ( Actor )

... 1947

The Locket

Lord Wyndham ( Actor )

... 1946

The Return of Monte Cristo

Prof. Duval ( Actor )

... 1946

Her Sister's Secret

Mr. DuBois ( Actor )

... 1946

Of Human Bondage

Dr. Tyrell ( Actor )

... 1946

The Green Years

Blakely ( Actor )

... 1946

Night and Day

Omar Cole ( Actor )

... 1946

Heartbeat

Minister ( Actor )

... 1946

Tarzan and the Amazons

Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist ( Actor )

... 1945

Reckless Age

J. H. Wadsworth ( Actor )

... 1944

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Sir Reginald Meade ( Actor )

... 1944

Two Girls and a Sailor

John Dyckman Brown I ( Actor )

... 1944

The Hour Before the Dawn

Gen. Hetherton ( Actor )

... 1944

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Bryant ( Actor )

... 1943

The Mantrap

Sir Humphrey Quilp ( Actor )

... 1943

Half Way to Shanghai

Col. Algernon Blimpton ( Actor )

... 1942

This Above All

General Cathaway ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1942

Lady from Louisiana

General Anatole Mirbeau ( Actor )

... 1941

The Man Who Lost Himself

Frederick Collins ( Actor )

... 1941

Down Argentine Way

Don Diego Quintana ( Actor )

... 1940

Spring Parade

Emperor Franz Joseph ( Actor )

... 1940

It's a Date

Capt. Andrew ( Actor )

... 1940

Little Old New York

Robert R. Livingston ( Actor )

... 1940

... 1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Ronald Ramsgate ( Actor )

... 1939

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Sir Thomas Lancing ( Actor )

... 1939

Dramatic School

Pasquel Sr. ( Actor )

... 1938

Suez

Count Mathieu de Lesseps ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Count de Mercey ( Actor )

... 1938

The Young in Heart

Felix Anstruther ( Actor )

... 1938

The Baroness and the Butler

Count Albert Sandor ( Actor )

... 1938

Wise Girl

Mr. Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1937

Conquest

Count Anastas Walewski ( Actor )

... 1937

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Prince Johann ( Actor )

... 1937

The Prince and the Pauper

Duke of Norfolk ( Actor )

... 1937

When You're in Love

Walter Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1937

Beloved Enemy

Lord Athleigh ( Actor )

... 1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Sir Charles Macefield ( Actor )

... 1936

Give Me Your Heart

Edward, Lord Farrington ( Actor )

... 1936

Walking on Air

Mr. Horace Bennett ( Actor )

... 1936

Hearts Divided

Charles Patterson ( Actor )

... 1936

Half Angel

Prof. Jerome Hargraves ( Actor )

... 1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Havisham ( Actor )

... 1936

Captain Blood

Lord Willoughby ( Actor )

... 1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

Joseph Banks ( Actor )

... 1935

The Perfect Gentleman

Bishop ( Actor )

... 1935

Rendezvous

Russian Ambassador Gregory ( Actor )

... 1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Maj. Winslow ( Actor )

... 1935

The Flame Within

Dr. Jock Frazier ( Actor )

... 1935

Reckless

Colonel Harrison Sr. ( Actor )

... 1935

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Barney Newmark ( Actor )

... 1935

The Night Is Young

Emperor Franz Josef ( Actor )

... 1935

What Every Woman Knows

Charles Venables ( Actor )

... 1934

Outcast Lady

Sir Maurice ( Actor )

... 1934

The Richest Girl in the World

John Connors ( Actor )

... 1934

She Loves Me Not

Dean Mercer ( Actor )

... 1934

One More River

Sir Laurence Mont ( Actor )

... 1934

Stingaree

Mr. Hugh Clarkson ( Actor )

... 1934

Thirty Day Princess

King Anatol XII ( Actor )

... 1934

... 1934

The Mystery of Mr. X

Frensham ( Actor )

... 1934

Man of Two Worlds

Sir Basil Pemberton ( Actor )

... 1934

If I Were Free

Hector Stribling ( Actor )

... 1933

Little Women

Mr. Laurence ( Actor )

... 1933

My Lips Betray

De Conti ( Actor )

... 1933

Blind Adventure

Major Thorne ( Actor )

... 1933

Double Harness

Colonel Sam Colby ( Actor )

... 1933

Tomorrow at Seven

Thornton Drake ( Actor )

... 1933

The Animal Kingdom

Rufus Collier ( Actor )

... 1932

Cynara

John Tring ( Actor )

... 1932

A Bill of Divorcement

Doctor Alliot ( Actor )

... 1932

Guilty as Hell

Dr. Ernest S. Tindal ( Actor )

... 1932

Red-Headed Woman

Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste ( Actor )

... 1932

Wild, Wild Susan

Peter Van Dusen ( Actor )

... 1925

Men and Women

Arnold Kirke ( Actor )

... 1925

A Society Exile

Sir Howard Furnival ( Actor )

... 1919