Harry Davenport
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1866-01-19 – 1949-08-09
Place of birth: Canton, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers.
Known for
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944Grandpa
Gone with the Wind
1939Dr. Meade
Jack London
1943Prof. Hilliard
Reckless Living
1938'General' Jeff
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939King Louis XI
Earl of Puddlestone
1940Grandpa Ed Carson
Man-Proof
1938Hitchhiker (uncredited)
The Covered Trailer
1939Grandpa Ed Carson
You Can't Take It with You
1938Judge
Tales of Manhattan
1942Professor Lyons
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947Judge Thaddeus Turner
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944Dr. Bertram Charles
That Forsyte Woman
1949Old Jolyon Forsyte
Little Women
1949Dr. Barnes
The Farmer's Daughter
1947Dr. Matthew Sulven
Kismet
1944Agha
That Uncertain Feeling
1941Jones
All This, and Heaven Too
1940Pierre
The Rage of Paris
1938Pop, Caretaker