7.6
7.6
Oliver Twist
1948
as Mr. Brownlow
Henry Stephenson
Also known as: Harry Stephenson Garraway
Acting
Born:April 15, 1871
Died:April 24, 1956(aged 85)
Birthplace:Granada, British West Indies
Nationality:United Kingdom
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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.
Filmography (88 movies)
7.4
7.4
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
as Joseph Banks
7.2
7.2
Captain Blood
1935
as Lord Willoughby
7.0
7.0
What Every Woman Knows
1934
as Charles Venables
7.0
7.0
Wise Girl
1937
as Mr. Fletcher
7.0
7.0
Mr. Lucky
1943
as Mr. Bryant
6.9
6.9
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Sir Ronald Ramsgate
6.9
6.9
The Mystery of Mr. X
1934
as Sir Herbert Frensham
6.8
6.8
Thirty Day Princess
1934
as King Anatol XII
6.8
6.8
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Duke of Norfolk
6.8
6.8
Little Women
1933
as Mr. Laurence
6.7
6.7
Spring Parade
1940
as Emperor Franz Joseph
6.7
6.7
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936
as Havisham
6.7
6.7
Song of Love
1947
as King Albert
6.7
6.7
This Above All
1942
as General Cathaway
6.7
6.7
When You're in Love
1937
as Walter Mitchell
6.6
6.6
Ivy
1947
as Judge
6.5
6.5
Red-Headed Woman
1932
as Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
6.5
6.5
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
as Colonel Prentiss
6.5
6.5
Her Sister's Secret
1946
as Mr. DuBois
6.5
6.5
Conquest
1937
as Count Anastas Walewski
6.5
6.5
The Young in Heart
1938
as Felix Anstruther
6.5
6.5
Julia Misbehaves
1948
as Lord Pennystone
6.5
6.5
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
as Sir Charles Macefield
6.5
6.5
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Count de Mercey
6.4
6.4
The Locket
1946
as Lord Wyndham
6.4
6.4
Enchantment
1948
as General Fitzgerald
6.3
6.3
Double Harness
1933
as Colonel Sam Colby
6.3
6.3
Outcast Lady
1934
as Sir Maurice
6.3
6.3
The Green Years
1946
as Blakely
6.3
6.3
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945
as Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
6.2
6.2
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Lord Burghley
6.2
6.2
Down Argentine Way
1940
as Don Diego Quintana
6.2
6.2
Dramatic School
1938
as Pasquel Sr.
6.2
6.2
A Bill of Divorcement
1932
as Doctor Alliot
6.1
6.1
Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939
as Sir Thomas Lancing
6.1
6.1
Beloved Enemy
1936
as Lord Athleigh
6.0
6.0
Half Angel
1936
as Professor Jerome Hargraves
6.0
6.0
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Barney Newmark
6.0
6.0
The Mantrap
1943
as Sir Humphrey Quilp
6.0
6.0
Of Human Bondage
1946
as Dr. Tyrell
6.0
6.0
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
as Thornton Drake
6.0
6.0
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
as Maj. Winslow
6.0
6.0
Man of Two Worlds
1934
as Sir Basil Pemberton
6.0
6.0
Dark Delusion
1947
as Evans Biddle
6.0
6.0
The Return of Monte Cristo
1946
as Prof. Duval
5.9
5.9
It's a Date
1940
as Capt. Andrew
5.9
5.9
Night and Day
1946
as Omar Cole
5.9
5.9
Stingaree
1934
as Mr. Hugh Clarkson
5.8
5.8
Walking on Air
1936
as Mr. Horace Bennett
5.8
5.8
Guilty as Hell
1932
as Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
5.7
5.7
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
as John Dyckman Brown I
5.7
5.7
The Richest Girl in the World
1934
as John Connors
5.7
5.7
The Night Is Young
1935
as Emperor Franz Josef
5.6
5.6
She Loves Me Not
1934
as Dean Mercer
5.5
5.5
Blind Adventure
1933
as Major Thorne
5.5
5.5
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944
as Gen. Hetherton
5.4
5.4
The Animal Kingdom
1932
as Rufus Collier
5.3
5.3
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944
as Sir Reginald Meade
5.3
5.3
Lady from Louisiana
1941
as General Anatole Mirbeau
5.3
5.3
Give Me Your Heart
1936
as Edward, Lord Farrington
5.2
5.2
Suez
1938
as Count Mathieu de Lesseps
5.0
5.0
The Baroness and the Butler
1938
as Count Albert Sandor
5.0
5.0
Hearts Divided
1936
as Charles Patterson
5.0
5.0
Reckless
1935
as Colonel Harrison Sr.
5.0
5.0
Time Out of Mind
1947
as Wellington Drake
4.8
4.8
Challenge to Lassie
1949
as Sir Charles Loring
4.7
4.7
One More River
1934
as Sir Laurence Mont
4.7
4.7
Cynara
1932
as John Tring
4.7
4.7
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
as Prince Johann
4.6
4.6
Heartbeat
1946
as Minister
4.5
4.5
The Flame Within
1935
as Dr. Jock Frazier
4.5
4.5
The Perfect Gentleman
1935
as Bishop
4.3
4.3
If I Were Free
1933
as Hector Stribling
4.3
4.3
Little Old New York
1940
as Robert R. Livingston
4.3
4.3
Rendezvous
1935
as Russian Ambassador Gregory
4.3
4.3
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as Frederick Collins
My Lips Betray
1933
as De Conti
Wild, Wild Susan
1925
as Peter Van Dusen
All Men Are Enemies
1934
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
as Col. Algernon Blimpton
The Tower of Jewels
1919
as David Parrish
The Homestretch
1947
as Don Humberto Balcares
The Spreading Dawn
1917
as Mr. LeRoy
Men and Women
1925
as Arnold Kirke
A Society Exile
1919
as Sir Howard Furnival
Reckless Age
1944
as J. H. Wadsworth
The Black Panther's Cub
1921
as Clive, Earl of Maudsley
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