Acting · Granada, British West Indies · Born April 15, 1871
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.
MovieChallenge to Lassie
1949
as Sir Charles Loring
MovieEnchantment
1948
as General Fitzgerald
MovieJulia Misbehaves
1948
as Lord Pennystone
MovieOliver Twist
1948
as Mr. Brownlow
MovieSong of Love
1947
as King Albert
MovieIvy
1947
as Judge
MovieDark Delusion
1947
as Evans Biddle
MovieThe Homestretch
1947
as Don Humberto Balcares
MovieTime Out of Mind
1947
as Wellington Drake
MovieThe Locket
1946
as Lord Wyndham
MovieThe Return of Monte Cristo
1946
as Professor Duval
MovieHer Sister's Secret
1946
as Mr. DuBois
MovieOf Human Bondage
1946
as Dr. Tyrell
MovieThe Green Years
1946
as Blakely
MovieNight and Day
1946
as Omar Cole
MovieHeartbeat
1946
as Minister
MovieTarzan and the Amazons
1945
as Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
MovieReckless Age
1944
as J. H. Wadsworth
MovieSecrets of Scotland Yard
1944
as Sir Reginald Meade
MovieTwo Girls and a Sailor
1944
as John Dyckman Brown I
MovieThe Hour Before the Dawn
1944
as Gen. Hetherton
MovieMr. Lucky
1943
as Mr. Bryant
MovieThe Mantrap
1943
as Sir Humphrey Quilp
MovieHalf Way to Shanghai
1942
as Col. Algernon Blimpton
MovieThis Above All
1942
as General Cathaway
MovieRings on Her Fingers
1942
as Colonel Prentiss
MovieLady from Louisiana
1941
as General Anatole Mirbeau
MovieThe Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as Frederick Collins
MovieDown Argentine Way
1940
as Don Diego Quintana
MovieSpring Parade
1940
as Emperor Franz Joseph
MovieIt's a Date
1940
as Capt. Andrew
MovieLittle Old New York
1940
as Robert R. Livingston
MovieThe Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Lord Burghley
MovieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Sir Ronald Ramsgate
MovieTarzan Finds a Son!
1939
as Sir Thomas Lancing
MovieDramatic School
1938
as Pasquel Sr.
MovieSuez
1938
as Count Mathieu de Lesseps
MovieMarie Antoinette
1938
as Count de Mercey
MovieThe Young in Heart
1938
as Felix Anstruther
MovieThe Baroness and the Butler
1938
as Count Albert Sandor
MovieWise Girl
1937
as Mr. Fletcher
MovieConquest
1937
as Count Anastas Walewski
MovieThe Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
as Prince Johann
MovieThe Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Duke of Norfolk
MovieWhen You're in Love
1937
as Walter Mitchell
MovieBeloved Enemy
1936
as Lord Athleigh
MovieThe Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
as Sir Charles Macefield
MovieGive Me Your Heart
1936
as Edward, Lord Farrington
MovieWalking on Air
1936
as Mr. Horace Bennett
MovieHearts Divided
1936
as Charles Patterson
MovieHalf Angel
1936
as Professor Jerome Hargraves
MovieLittle Lord Fauntleroy
1936
as Havisham
MovieCaptain Blood
1935
as Lord Willoughby
MovieMutiny on the Bounty
1935
as Joseph Banks
MovieThe Perfect Gentleman
1935
as Bishop
MovieRendezvous
1935
as Russian Ambassador Gregory
MovieO'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
as Maj. Winslow
MovieThe Flame Within
1935
as Dr. Jock Frazier
MovieReckless
1935
as Colonel Harrison Sr.
MovieVanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Barney Newmark
MovieThe Night Is Young
1935
as Emperor Franz Josef
MovieWhat Every Woman Knows
1934
as Charles Venables
MovieOutcast Lady
1934
as Sir Maurice
MovieThe Richest Girl in the World
1934
as John Connors
MovieShe Loves Me Not
1934
as Dean Mercer
MovieOne More River
1934
as Sir Laurence Mont
MovieStingaree
1934
as Mr. Hugh Clarkson
MovieThirty Day Princess
1934
as King Anatol XII
MovieAll Men Are Enemies
1934
MovieThe Mystery of Mr. X
1934
as Sir Herbert Frensham
MovieMan of Two Worlds
1934
as Sir Basil Pemberton
MovieIf I Were Free
1933
as Hector Stribling
MovieLittle Women
1933
as Mr. Laurence
MovieMy Lips Betray
1933
as De Conti
MovieBlind Adventure
1933
as Major Thorne
MovieDouble Harness
1933
as Colonel Sam Colby
MovieTomorrow at Seven
1933
as Thornton Drake
MovieThe Animal Kingdom
1932
as Rufus
MovieCynara
1932
as John Tring
MovieA Bill of Divorcement
1932
as Doctor Alliot
MovieGuilty as Hell
1932
as Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
MovieRed-Headed Woman
1932
as Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
MovieWild, Wild Susan
1925
as Peter Van Dusen
MovieMen and Women
1925
as Arnold Kirke
MovieThe Black Panther's Cub
1921
as Clive, Earl of Maudsley
MovieThe Tower of Jewels
1919
as David Parrish
MovieA Society Exile
1919
as Sir Howard Furnival
MovieThe Spreading Dawn
1917
as Mr. LeRoy
