Harry Davenport
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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
Credits
Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Dr. Meade
Little Women (1949)
as Dr. Barnes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
as King Louis XI
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
as Grandpa
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Judge
Juarez (1939)
as Dr. Samuel Basch
Courage of Lassie (1946)
as Judge Payson
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as Mr. Powers
Three Wise Fools (1946)
as The Ancient
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
as Amos Kidder
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Dr. Bertram Charles
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
as Arthur Davies
Dawn (1919)
as Daniel Burton
Shantytown (1943)
as 'Doc' Herndon
My Wife's Relatives (1939)
as Grandpa Ed Carson
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
as Pierre
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
as Jones
Lady Luck (1946)
as Judge Martin
His Woman (1931)
as Customs Inspector
Meet John Doe (1941)
as Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
as Chief of Staff
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
as Uncle Hannibal Smith
Death of a Champion (1939)
as Guy Lanyard
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
as Thaddeus
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
as Dr. Parsons
Made for Each Other (1939)
as Dr. Healy (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
as Judge Rider
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Monsieur de Cosse (uncredited)
Claudia and David (1946)
as Dr. Harry
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
as Supreme Court Judge
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
as Dr. Matthew Sulven
I Wanted Wings (1941)
as 'Sandbags' Riley
Government Girl (1943)
as Senator MacVickers
The Planter (1917)
as Short
Her Husband's Secretary (1937)
as Dan Kingdon
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
as Pop Tolliver
Under Cover of Night (1937)
as Dr. Reed
Pardon My Past (1945)
as Grandpa Pemberton
Sport of Kings (1947)
as Maj. Denning
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Professor Lyons
Adventure (1945)
as Dr. Ashton
Kings Row (1942)
as Colonel Skeffington
G.I. War Brides (1946)
as Grandpa Giles
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
as Bane
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Ingalls, banker
The Unknown Quantity (1919)
as Septimus Kinsolving
A Girl at Bay (1919)
as Frank Galt
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as Old Jolyon Forsyte
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
as Judge
Man-Proof (1938)
as Hitchhiker (uncredited)
Fit for a King (1937)
as Archduke Julio
This Love of Ours (1945)
as Dr. Wilkerson
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
as Albert
The Rage of Paris (1938)
as Pop, Caretaker
They Won't Forget (1937)
as Confederate Soldier
Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
as Nathaniel "Nate" Paulson
Get That Venus (1933)
as Mr. Rendleby
The Sisters (1938)
as Doc Moore
I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Grandpa Brokaw
The Wheel of the Law (1916)
as John Daniels
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
as Luigi
Music for Millions (1944)
as Doctor
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
as Benjamin Harris
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog (1946)
as Gramps
Tell It to the Judge (1949)
as Judge MacKenzie Meredith
Larceny, Inc. (1942)
as Homer Bigelow
Sowers and Reapers (1917)
as Henry Ainsworth
Paradise Express (1937)
as Jed Carson
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
as Elias Samson
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
as Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday
Stallion Road (1947)
as Dr. Stevens
Kismet (1944)
as Agha
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Lucky Partners (1940)
as Judge
The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)
as Courtroom Attendant
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
as Clem Adams
No More West (1934)
as Judge
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
as Pop Lambert
Saleslady (1938)
as Miles Cannon
Riding High (1950)
as Johnson
Exile Express (1939)
as Dr. Hite
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
as Doc Quinn
Radio Patrol (1937)
as John P. Adams, inventor
The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
as Peter Laxter
For the Love of Mary (1948)
as Justice Peabody
The Man from Texas (1948)
as Pop Hickey
King of Hockey (1936)
as Tom McKenna
Father and the Boys (1915)
as Tobias Ford
Grandpa Goes To Town (1940)
as Grandpa
Tail Spin (1939)
as T.P. Lester
The Impatient Years (1944)
as Minister
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Uncle Dawson
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as George
First Lady (1937)
as Charles
Fly Away Baby (1937)
as Colonel Higgam
My Sin (1931)
as Roger Metcalf
The Scoundrel (1935)
as Slezack
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Carl Carter
That Hagen Girl (1947)
as Judge Merrivale
Three Daring Daughters (1948)
as Dr. Cannon
The Fabulous Texan (1947)
as Rev. Baker
The Long Shot (1939)
as Henry Sharon
Jack London (1943)
as Prof. Hilliard
Keeper of the Bees (1947)
as Michael Worthington
As Good as Married (1937)
as Jessup
A Boy and His Dog (1946)
as Squire Jim Kirby
The Covered Trailer (1939)
as Grandpa Ed Carson
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
as Great Grandpa
Reckless Living (1938)
as 'General' Jeff
Young Fugitives (1938)
as Joel Bentham
Too Young to Know (1945)
as Judge Boller
Money To Burn (1939)
as Grandpa Ed Carson
Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
as Fred Taylor
Damon and Pythias (1914)
as Phillistus (as H. Davenport)
Armored Car (1937)
as Pop Logan
Hurricane Smith (1941)
as Robert Ingersoll Reed
White Bondage (1937)
as Pop Craig
The Enchanted Forest (1945)
as Old John
December 7th (1943)
as Mr. 'C'
Earl of Puddlestone (1940)
as Grandpa Ed Carson
The Higgins Family (1938)
as Grandpa William Jordan
Her Unborn Child (1930)
as Dr. Remington
The Campus Mystery (1932)
as Dean Perry
Should Husbands Work? (1939)
as Grandpa Higgins
C.O.D. (1915)
as C.O. Darlington