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Born · April 15, 1871
Died · April 24, 1956 (85 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Granada, British West Indies
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.
Sir Charles Loring
4.8
1949
General Fitzgerald
6.4
1948
Lord Pennystone
6.5
1948
Mr. Brownlow
7.5
1948
King Albert
6.7
1947
Judge
6.8
1947
Evans Biddle
6.0
1947
Don Humberto Balcares
0.0
1947
Wellington Drake
5.0
1947
Lord Wyndham
6.4
1946
Prof. Duval
6.5
1946
Mr. DuBois
6.5
1946
Dr. Tyrell
6.0
1946
Blakely
6.4
1946
Omar Cole
5.7
1946
Minister
4.8
1946
Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
6.3
1945
J. H. Wadsworth
0.0
1944
Sir Reginald Meade
5.3
1944
John Dyckman Brown I
5.7
1944
Gen. Hetherton
5.0
1944
Mr. Bryant
6.9
1943
Sir Humphrey Quilp
6.0
1943
Col. Algernon Blimpton
0.0
1942
General Cathaway
6.6
1942
Colonel Prentiss
6.5
1942
General Anatole Mirbeau
5.2
1941
Frederick Collins
4.0
1941
Don Diego Quintana
6.0
1940
Emperor Franz Joseph
6.8
1940
Capt. Andrew
6.4
1940
Robert R. Livingston
4.0
1940
Lord Burghley
6.2
1939
Sir Ronald Ramsgate
6.8
1939
Sir Thomas Lancing
6.1
1939
Pasquel Sr.
6.2
1938
Count Mathieu de Lesseps
5.4
1938
Count de Mercey
6.3
1938
Felix Anstruther
6.6
1938
Count Albert Sandor
5.2
1938
Mr. Fletcher
7.0
1937
Count Anastas Walewski
6.6
1937
Prince Johann
5.2
1937
Duke of Norfolk
6.8
1937
Walter Mitchell
6.7
1937
Lord Athleigh
6.1
1936
Sir Charles Macefield
6.5
1936
Edward, Lord Farrington
6.0
1936
Mr. Horace Bennett
5.8
1936
Charles Patterson
5.0
1936
Prof. Jerome Hargraves
0.0
1936
Havisham
6.8
1936
Lord Willoughby
7.2
1935
Joseph Banks
7.3
1935
Bishop
4.5
1935
Russian Ambassador Gregory
4.8
1935
Maj. Winslow
6.0
1935
Dr. Jock Frazier
5.2
1935
Colonel Harrison Sr.
5.3
1935
Barney Newmark
6.0
1935
Emperor Franz Josef
5.0
1935
Charles Venables
7.0
1934
Sir Maurice
6.3
1934
John Connors
5.6
1934
Dean Mercer
5.6
1934
Sir Laurence Mont
5.3
1934
Mr. Hugh Clarkson
5.9
1934
King Anatol XII
6.8
1934
0.0
1934
Frensham
7.0
1934
Sir Basil Pemberton
6.0
1934
Hector Stribling
5.0
1933
Mr. Laurence
6.8
1933
De Conti
0.0
1933
Major Thorne
5.5
1933
Colonel Sam Colby
6.7
1933
Thornton Drake
6.0
1933
Rufus Collier
5.7
1932
John Tring
4.8
1932
Doctor Alliot
6.2
1932
Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
5.8
1932
Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
6.6
1932
Peter Van Dusen
0.0
1925
Arnold Kirke
0.0
1925
Sir Howard Furnival
0.0
1919