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