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