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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, pl...
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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.
Movies (Cast)
Julia Misbehaves
Little Women
Blind Adventure
Captain Blood
Heartbeat
Ivy
Reckless
The Richest Girl in the World
Half Angel
Dramatic School
Beloved Enemy
Hearts Divided
Rendezvous
Enchantment
Double Harness
Outcast Lady
The Locket
Marie Antoinette
Stingaree
Tarzan and the Amazons
The Prince and the Pauper
Conquest
Red-Headed Woman
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Night and Day
The Perfect Gentleman
Suez
Cynara
One More River
Dark Delusion
Song of Love
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Two Girls and a Sailor
It's a Date
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Animal Kingdom
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Green Years
Lady from Louisiana
The Mystery of Mr. X
Down Argentine Way
Mr. Lucky
The Baroness and the Butler
When You're in Love
A Bill of Divorcement
Spring Parade
Challenge to Lassie
The Young in Heart
Thirty Day Princess
This Above All
The Return of Monte Cristo
Give Me Your Heart
The Man Who Lost Himself
Tomorrow at Seven
The Night Is Young
The Flame Within
Little Old New York
She Loves Me Not
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
If I Were Free
Half Way to Shanghai
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Mutiny on the Bounty
Oliver Twist
Rings on Her Fingers
The Hour Before the Dawn
Time Out of Mind
Her Sister's Secret
Secrets of Scotland Yard
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
What Every Woman Knows
Wise Girl
Man of Two Worlds
The Mantrap
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Of Human Bondage
Walking on Air
Guilty as Hell
Series (Cast)
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