Harry Davenport
Acting • Born 1866-01-19 – Died 1949-08-09
Biography
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.
Filmography
125 credits
Meet Me in St. Louis
Movie • 1944
Grandpa
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Dr. Meade
Jack London
Movie • 1943
Prof. Hilliard
Reckless Living
Movie • 1938
'General' Jeff
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1939
King Louis XI
Earl of Puddlestone
Movie • 1940
Grandpa Ed Carson
The Covered Trailer
Movie • 1939
Grandpa Ed Carson
Man-Proof
Movie • 1938
Hitchhiker (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Judge
Tales of Manhattan
Movie • 1942
Professor Lyons
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Movie • 1947
Judge Thaddeus Turner
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie • 1944
Dr. Bertram Charles
That Forsyte Woman
Movie • 1949
Old Jolyon Forsyte
Little Women
Movie • 1949
Dr. Barnes
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Dr. Matthew Sulven
Kismet
Movie • 1944
Agha
That Uncertain Feeling
Movie • 1941
Jones
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Pierre
The Rage of Paris
Movie • 1938
Pop, Caretaker
Courage of Lassie
Movie • 1946
Judge Payson
Adventure
Movie • 1945
Dr. Ashton
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Movie • 1943
Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday
Sport of Kings
Movie • 1947
Maj. Denning
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie • 1939
Judge Rider
They Won't Forget
Movie • 1937
Confederate Soldier
Larceny, Inc.
Movie • 1942
Homer Bigelow
That Lady in Ermine
Movie • 1948
Luigi
Government Girl
Movie • 1943
Senator MacVickers
One Foot in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Elias Samson
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Movie • 1946
Gramps
Damon and Pythias
Movie • 1914
Phillistus (as H. Davenport)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie • 1940
Judge
December 7th
Movie • 1943
Mr. 'C'
Gangway for Tomorrow
Movie • 1943
Fred Taylor
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie • 1945
Albert
First Lady
Movie • 1937
Charles
Riding High
Movie • 1950
Johnson
Three Daring Daughters
Movie • 1948
Dr. Cannon
The Perfect Specimen
Movie • 1937
Carl Carter
The Man from Texas
Movie • 1948
Pop Hickey
Down to the Sea in Ships
Movie • 1949
Benjamin Harris
The Impatient Years
Movie • 1944
Minister
Saleslady
Movie • 1938
Miles Cannon
The Enchanted Forest
Movie • 1945
Old John
The Fabulous Texan
Movie • 1947
Rev. Baker
Pardon My Past
Movie • 1945
Grandpa Pemberton
Music for Millions
Movie • 1944
Doctor
This Love of Ours
Movie • 1945
Dr. Wilkerson
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie • 1942
Bane
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Movie • 1937
Doc Quinn
I Want a Divorce
Movie • 1940
Grandpa Brokaw
The Unknown Quantity
Movie • 1919
Septimus Kinsolving
King of Hockey
Movie • 1936
Tom McKenna
Claudia and David
Movie • 1946
Dr. Harry
Paradise Express
Movie • 1937
Jed Carson
Fit for a King
Movie • 1937
Archduke Julio
That Hagen Girl
Movie • 1947
Judge Merrivale
Lady Luck
Movie • 1946
Judge Martin
Keeper of the Bees
Movie • 1947
Michael Worthington
Foreign Correspondent
Movie • 1940
Mr. Powers
His Woman
Movie • 1931
Customs Inspector
My Sin
Movie • 1931
Roger Metcalf
Exile Express
Movie • 1939
Dr. Hite
Gold Is Where You Find It
Movie • 1938
Dr. Parsons
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie • 1938
Uncle Hannibal Smith
Young Fugitives
Movie • 1938
Joel Bentham
The First Hundred Years
Movie • 1938
Uncle Dawson
Kings Row
Movie • 1942
Colonel Skeffington
For the Love of Mary
Movie • 1948
Justice Peabody
Armored Car
Movie • 1937
Pop Logan
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Movie • 1941
Pop Tolliver
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Ingalls, banker
Tail Spin
Movie • 1939
T.P. Lester
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie • 1942
Amos Kidder
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Faithful in My Fashion
Movie • 1946
Great Grandpa
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Movie • 1948
Courtroom Attendant
Radio Patrol
Movie • 1937
John P. Adams, inventor
The Case of the Black Cat
Movie • 1936
Peter Laxter
Granny Get Your Gun
Movie • 1940
Nathaniel "Nate" Paulson
The Long Shot
Movie • 1939
Henry Sharon
Made for Each Other
Movie • 1939
Dr. Healy (uncredited)
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Dr. Samuel Basch
Her Husband's Secretary
Movie • 1937
Dan Kingdon
Hurricane Smith
Movie • 1941
Robert Ingersoll Reed
Should Husbands Work?
Movie • 1939
Grandpa Higgins
The Scoundrel
Movie • 1935
Slezack
G.I. War Brides
Movie • 1946
Grandpa Giles
The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie • 1943
Arthur Davies
Fly Away Baby
Movie • 1937
Colonel Higgam
Princess O'Rourke
Movie • 1943
Supreme Court Judge
The Sisters
Movie • 1938
Doc Moore
White Bondage
Movie • 1937
Pop Craig
Money To Burn
Movie • 1939
Grandpa Ed Carson
The Higgins Family
Movie • 1938
Grandpa William Jordan
My Wife's Relatives
Movie • 1939
Grandpa Ed Carson
Grandpa Goes To Town
Movie • 1940
Grandpa
Too Young to Know
Movie • 1945
Judge Boller
Shantytown
Movie • 1943
'Doc' Herndon
Lucky Partners
Movie • 1940
Judge
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
George
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie • 1937
Chief of Staff
Stallion Road
Movie • 1947
Dr. Stevens
Three Wise Fools
Movie • 1946
The Ancient
Under Cover of Night
Movie • 1937
Dr. Reed
A Boy and His Dog
Movie • 1946
Squire Jim Kirby
Meet John Doe
Movie • 1941
Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited)
Headin' for God's Country
Movie • 1943
Clem Adams
We've Never Been Licked
Movie • 1943
Pop Lambert
Death of a Champion
Movie • 1939
Guy Lanyard
Tell It to the Judge
Movie • 1949
Judge MacKenzie Meredith
No More West
Movie • 1934
Judge
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 1938
Monsieur de Cosse (uncredited)
As Good as Married
Movie • 1937
Jessup
Get That Venus
Movie • 1933
Mr. Rendleby
I Wanted Wings
Movie • 1941
'Sandbags' Riley
The Wheel of the Law
Movie • 1916
John Daniels
C.O.D.
Movie • 1915
C.O. Darlington
The Campus Mystery
Movie • 1932
Dean Perry
Father and the Boys
Movie • 1915
Tobias Ford
Her Unborn Child
Movie • 1930
Dr. Remington
The Planter
Movie • 1917
Short
Sowers and Reapers
Movie • 1917
Henry Ainsworth
A Girl at Bay
Movie • 1919
Frank Galt
Dawn
Movie • 1919
Daniel Burton