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