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Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949.
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. His roles include Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Grandpa in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt [. . .] the greatest character actor of all time."
Barrymore in the 1910s. Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) was an American actor of stage, screen, and radio. He also directed several films, wrote scripts, created etchings, sketches, and composed music.
Harry Davenport celebrating the 68th anniversary of his stage debut on set with Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable and Olivia de Havilland. Harry Davenport (1866-1949) was an American actor. He came from a long line of actors and was also related by marriage to the Barrymores.
Congressman Harry J. Davenport, my uncle, was at the center of a political and psychological mys-tery, and his uncle, Harry F. Davenport, was the victim of an unsolved murder decades ago. I had not thought about either Harry for many years when, in the spring of 1999, I visited McKeesport to mourn the death of an aunt in the Davenport family.
Harry Davenport. Actor: Gone with the Wind. Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949.
Harry Davenport was an American actor and director who had a long career in film and television. He was born on January 19, 1866 in New York City, New York. He began his career in vaudeville and made his Broadway debut in 1891.
