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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Challenge to Lassie
Character:Sir Charles Loring
Release Date:31/10/1949
Enchantment
Character:General Fitzgerald
Release Date:25/12/1948
Julia Misbehaves
Character:Lord Pennystone
Release Date:08/08/1948
Oliver Twist
Character:Mr. Brownlow
Release Date:28/06/1948
Song of Love
Character:King Albert
Release Date:09/10/1947
Ivy
Character:Judge
Release Date:26/06/1947
Dark Delusion
Character:Evans Biddle
Release Date:24/06/1947
The Homestretch
Character:Don Humberto Balcares
Release Date:04/05/1947
Time Out of Mind
Character:Wellington Drake
Release Date:03/05/1947
The Locket
Character:Lord Wyndham
Release Date:20/12/1946
The Return of Monte Cristo
Character:Professor Duval
Release Date:19/12/1946
Her Sister's Secret
Character:Mr. DuBois
Release Date:23/09/1946
Of Human Bondage
Character:Dr. Tyrell
Release Date:05/07/1946
The Green Years
Character:Blakely
Release Date:04/07/1946
Night and Day
Character:Omar Cole
Release Date:02/07/1946
Heartbeat
Character:Minister
Release Date:01/05/1946
Tarzan and the Amazons
Character:Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
Release Date:29/04/1945
Reckless Age
Character:J. H. Wadsworth
Release Date:01/08/1944
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Character:Sir Reginald Meade
Release Date:26/07/1944
Two Girls and a Sailor
Character:John Dyckman Brown I
Release Date:14/06/1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
Character:Gen. Hetherton
Release Date:10/05/1944
Mr. Lucky
Character:Mr. Bryant
Release Date:01/07/1943
The Mantrap
Character:Sir Humphrey Quilp
Release Date:13/04/1943
Half Way to Shanghai
Character:Col. Algernon Blimpton
Release Date:18/09/1942
This Above All
Character:General Cathaway
Release Date:12/05/1942
Rings on Her Fingers
Character:Colonel Prentiss
Release Date:20/03/1942
Lady from Louisiana
Character:General Anatole Mirbeau
Release Date:22/04/1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
Character:Frederick Collins
Release Date:21/03/1941
Down Argentine Way
Character:Don Diego Quintana
Release Date:11/10/1940
Spring Parade
Character:Emperor Franz Joseph
Release Date:27/09/1940
It's a Date
Character:Capt. Andrew
Release Date:22/03/1940
Little Old New York
Character:Robert R. Livingston
Release Date:09/02/1940
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character:Lord Burghley
Release Date:11/11/1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Sir Ronald Ramsgate
Release Date:01/09/1939
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Character:Sir Thomas Lancing
Release Date:16/06/1939
Dramatic School
Character:Pasquel Sr.
Release Date:09/12/1938
Suez
Character:Count Mathieu de Lesseps
Release Date:28/10/1938
Marie Antoinette
Character:Count de Mercey
Release Date:26/08/1938
The Young in Heart
Character:Felix Anstruther
Release Date:06/07/1938
The Baroness and the Butler
Character:Count Albert Sandor
Release Date:18/02/1938
Wise Girl
Character:Mr. Fletcher
Release Date:31/12/1937
Conquest
Character:Count Anastas Walewski
Release Date:22/10/1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character:Prince Johann
Release Date:02/07/1937
The Prince and the Pauper
Character:Duke of Norfolk
Release Date:30/04/1937
When You're in Love
Character:Walter Mitchell
Release Date:12/02/1937
Beloved Enemy
Character:Lord Athleigh
Release Date:25/12/1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character:Sir Charles Macefield
Release Date:20/10/1936
Give Me Your Heart
Character:Edward, Lord Farrington
Release Date:17/09/1936
Walking on Air
Character:Mr. Horace Bennett
Release Date:11/09/1936
Hearts Divided
Character:Charles Patterson
Release Date:20/06/1936
Half Angel
Character:Professor Jerome Hargraves
Release Date:22/05/1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character:Havisham
Release Date:06/03/1936
Captain Blood
Character:Lord Willoughby
Release Date:26/12/1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Character:Joseph Banks
Release Date:22/11/1935
The Perfect Gentleman
Character:Bishop
Release Date:22/11/1935
Rendezvous
Character:Russian Ambassador Gregory
Release Date:25/10/1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character:Maj. Winslow
Release Date:27/09/1935
The Flame Within
Character:Dr. Jock Frazier
Release Date:17/05/1935
Reckless
Character:Colonel Harrison Sr.
Release Date:19/04/1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character:Barney Newmark
Release Date:01/03/1935
The Night Is Young
Character:Emperor Franz Josef
Release Date:11/01/1935
What Every Woman Knows
Character:Charles Venables
Release Date:18/10/1934
Outcast Lady
Character:Sir Maurice
Release Date:28/09/1934
The Richest Girl in the World
Character:John Connors
Release Date:21/09/1934
She Loves Me Not
Character:Dean Mercer
Release Date:31/08/1934
One More River
Character:Sir Laurence Mont
Release Date:06/08/1934
Stingaree
Character:Mr. Hugh Clarkson
Release Date:24/05/1934
Thirty Day Princess
Character:King Anatol XII
Release Date:18/05/1934
All Men Are Enemies
Character:
Release Date:26/04/1934
The Mystery of Mr. X
Character:Sir Herbert Frensham
Release Date:23/02/1934
Man of Two Worlds
Character:Sir Basil Pemberton
Release Date:13/01/1934
If I Were Free
Character:Hector Stribling
Release Date:01/12/1933
Little Women
Character:Mr. Laurence
Release Date:24/11/1933
My Lips Betray
Character:De Conti
Release Date:04/11/1933
Blind Adventure
Character:Major Thorne
Release Date:18/08/1933
Double Harness
Character:Colonel Sam Colby
Release Date:21/07/1933
Tomorrow at Seven
Character:Thornton Drake
Release Date:01/06/1933
The Animal Kingdom
Character:Rufus Collier
Release Date:28/12/1932
Cynara
Character:John Tring
Release Date:24/12/1932
A Bill of Divorcement
Character:Doctor Alliot
Release Date:28/09/1932
Guilty as Hell
Character:Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
Release Date:05/08/1932
Red-Headed Woman
Character:Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
Release Date:25/06/1932
Wild, Wild Susan
Character:Peter Van Dusen
Release Date:04/08/1925
Men and Women
Character:Arnold Kirke
Release Date:23/03/1925
The Black Panther's Cub
Character:Clive, Earl of Maudsley
Release Date:15/05/1921
The Tower of Jewels
Character:David Parrish
Release Date:08/12/1919
A Society Exile
Character:Sir Howard Furnival
Release Date:07/10/1919
The Spreading Dawn
Character:Mr. LeRoy
Release Date:21/10/1917
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