Harry Davenport

Acting · Born 1866-01-19 in 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.

Filmography

• Meet Me in St. Louis as Grandpa
• Gone with the Wind as Dr. Meade
• Jack London as Prof. Hilliard
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame as King Louis XI
• Man-Proof as Hitchhiker (uncredited)
• You Can't Take It with You as Judge
• Tales of Manhattan as Professor Lyons
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Judge Thaddeus Turner
• The Thin Man Goes Home as Dr. Bertram Charles
• That Forsyte Woman as Old Jolyon Forsyte