Harry Davenport

ActorDirector Jan 19 (died age 83) Canton, Pennsylvania, USA 1914–1973 (59 year career)

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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

Film

Gone with the Wind

Dr. Meade

Film

The Ox-Bow Incident

Arthur Davies

Film

You Can't Take It with You

Judge

Film

Foreign Correspondent

Mr. Powers

Film

Meet Me in St. Louis

Grandpa

Film

Meet John Doe

Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)

Film

Little Women

Dr. Barnes

Film

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

King Louis XI

Filmography

Acting (125)

Movies (125)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

1973

as Self (archive footage)

Riding High

as Johnson

Little Women

as Dr. Barnes

That Forsyte Woman

as Old Jolyon Forsyte

5.8

Down to the Sea in Ships

1949

as Benjamin Harris

7.0

Tell It to the Judge

1949

as Judge MacKenzie Meredith

The Man from Texas

as Pop Hickey

That Lady in Ermine

as Luigi

Three Daring Daughters

as Dr. Cannon

For the Love of Mary

as Justice Peabody

The Decision of Christopher Blake

1948

as Courtroom Attendant

The Fabulous Texan

as Rev. Baker

Sport of Kings

as Maj. Denning

Stallion Road

1947

as Dr. Stevens

5.0

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947

as Judge Thaddeus Turner

6.9

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

as Dr. Matthew Sulven

6.9

Keeper of the Bees

1947

as Michael Worthington

That Hagen Girl

1947

as Judge Merrivale

4.8

Faithful in My Fashion

as Great Grandpa

Lady Luck

as Judge Martin

A Boy, a Girl and a Dog

as Gramps

Courage of Lassie

as Judge Payson

Three Wise Fools

as The Ancient

Claudia and David

as Dr. Harry

G.I. War Brides

as Grandpa Giles

A Boy and His Dog

as Squire Jim Kirby

Pardon My Past

as Grandpa Pemberton

The Enchanted Forest

as Old John

Adventure

as Dr. Ashton

This Love of Ours

as Dr. Wilkerson

She Wouldn't Say Yes

as Albert

Too Young to Know

as Judge Boller

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Grandpa

Kismet

as Agha

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944

as Dr. Bertram Charles

Music for Millions

as Doctor

The Impatient Years

as Minister

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Arthur Davies

Shantytown

as 'Doc' Herndon

Gangway for Tomorrow

as Fred Taylor

Government Girl

as Senator MacVickers

Jack London

as Prof. Hilliard

Princess O'Rourke

as Supreme Court Judge

6.3

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943

as Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday

6.7

December 7th

1943

as Mr. 'C'

5.8

Headin' for God's Country

1943

as Clem Adams

We've Never Been Licked

1943

as Pop Lambert

Tales of Manhattan

1942

as Professor Lyons

6.3

Kings Row

1942

as Colonel Skeffington

7.3

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

as Bane

Larceny, Inc.

as Homer Bigelow

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

1942

as Amos Kidder

7.3

Meet John Doe

1941

as Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)

7.3

Hurricane Smith

1941

as Robert Ingersoll Reed

3.7

One Foot in Heaven

1941

as Elias Samson

6.6

The Bride Came C.O.D.

1941

as Pop Tolliver

7.0

That Uncertain Feeling

as Jones

I Wanted Wings

as 'Sandbags' Riley

Earl of Puddlestone

as Grandpa Ed Carson

Foreign Correspondent

as Mr. Powers

Too Many Husbands

as George

Grandpa Goes To Town

as Grandpa

I Want a Divorce

1940

as Grandpa Brokaw

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

as Pierre

7.3

Granny Get Your Gun

1940

as Nathaniel "Nate" Paulson

3.5

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Judge

Lucky Partners

as Judge

Gone with the Wind

as Dr. Meade

Exile Express

as Dr. Hite

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

as King Louis XI

7.3

Money To Burn

1939

as Grandpa Ed Carson

Juarez

1939

as Dr. Samuel Basch

6.5

Death of a Champion

1939

as Guy Lanyard

My Wife's Relatives

1939

as Grandpa Ed Carson

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939

as Judge Rider

6.2

Made for Each Other

1939

as Dr. Healy (uncredited)

The Long Shot

as Henry Sharon

The Covered Trailer

as Grandpa Ed Carson

Tail Spin

1939

as T.P. Lester

5.8

Should Husbands Work?

1939

as Grandpa Higgins

2.0

You Can't Take It with You

1938

as Judge

7.5

Saleslady

1938

as Miles Cannon

The Higgins Family

1938

as Grandpa William Jordan

Man-Proof

1938

as Hitchhiker (uncredited)

4.3

Marie Antoinette

1938

as Monsieur de Cosse (uncredited)

6.5

Young Fugitives

1938

as Joel Bentham

1.0

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938

as Uncle Hannibal Smith

6.3

The Sisters

1938

as Doc Moore

5.8

Gold Is Where You Find It

as Dr. Parsons

The Rage of Paris

as Pop, Caretaker

The First Hundred Years

1938

as Uncle Dawson

6.0

Reckless Living

1938

as 'General' Jeff

The Life of Emile Zola

as Chief of Staff

Under Cover of Night

as Dr. Reed

Radio Patrol

as John P. Adams, inventor

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

as Doc Quinn

First Lady

as Charles

White Bondage

as Pop Craig

Wells Fargo

as Ingalls, banker

Armored Car

as Pop Logan

Fit for a King

as Archduke Julio

Fly Away Baby

as Colonel Higgam

They Won't Forget

as Confederate Soldier

5.6

Her Husband's Secretary

as Dan Kingdon

Paradise Express

as Jed Carson

As Good as Married

as Jessup

The Perfect Specimen

as Carl Carter

King of Hockey

as Tom McKenna

The Case of the Black Cat

as Peter Laxter

The Scoundrel

as Slezack

No More West

as Judge

Get That Venus

1933

as Mr. Rendleby

5.0

The Campus Mystery

1932

as Dean Perry

His Woman

as Customs Inspector

My Sin

as Roger Metcalf

Her Unborn Child

as Dr. Remington

A Girl at Bay

1919

as Frank Galt

The Unknown Quantity

1919

as Septimus Kinsolving

Dawn

1919

as Daniel Burton

Sowers and Reapers

1917

as Henry Ainsworth

The Planter

1917

as Short

The Wheel of the Law

1916

as John Daniels

C.O.D.

1915

as C.O. Darlington

Father and the Boys

1915

as Tobias Ford

Damon and Pythias

1914

as Phillistus (as H. Davenport)

5.0

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

The Millionaire's Double

1917

Director

Tillie Wakes Up

1917

Director

6.0

A Woman Alone

1917

Director

For a Woman’s Fair Name

1916

Director