The Arts In Berwick -- Film
'Henry Travers'

Henry Travers, is the best known of the five friends that formed the Berwick group known as 'The Quintet'. Interested from his youth in acting he scraped a living on the stage until seeking his fortune in Hollywood.

There he had modest success as a character actor. He played the angel 'Clarence' in the classic Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful (1946) with James Stewart. He played in dozens of other films, but his only leading role was as the mayor of a wartime Norwegian village in The Moon is Down (1943).


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